Mexico

Federal police in Mexico today said they had captured an alleged drug gang kingpin who faces drug-trafficking charges in the US and has been blamed for a vicious turf war in central Mexico.

Pictured: Investigators inspect what remains of a vehicle that exploded outside the Televisa network in the northern city of Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, Friday Aug. 27.

Three days after 72 migrants were found dead on a ranch near the Texas border, a local prosecutor involved in the investigation was reported missing on Friday and the office of a national television network in the region was damaged by an explosion, the authorities said.

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image shows Tropical Storm Frank (lower-L) advancing Sunday toward Mexico. Tropical Storm  Frank advanced Sunday toward Mexico's southwestern coast as authorities warned that the Pacific storm could reach hurricane status by late Monday.

A Mexicana de Aviacion airliner flies over Mexico City on August 3. A consortium of Mexican investors have acquired 95 percent of Mexicana de Aviacion airline, which earlier this month filed for bankruptcy protection, the investors group said Saturday.

Pictured: Mexico's President Felipe Calderon stands by a glass crypt holding the bones of Mexico's national heroes at the National Palace in Mexico City, Sunday Aug. 15, 2010.

Mexico is displaying the bones of 13 of its founding fathers -- and one founding mother -- at the National Palace as part of its yearlong bicentennial celebrations.

The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that each of the country's 31 states must recognize same-sex marriages registered in Mexico City, potentially giving gay and lesbian couples full matrimonial rights nationwide.

Motorists are caught in a traffic jam on a main road gunmen blocked using a bus in Monterrey August 15, 2010. 

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon stands by a glass crypt holding the bones of Mexico's national heroes at the National Palace in Mexico City, Sunday Aug. 15, 2010. Mexico is displaying the bones of 13 of its founding fathers, and one founding mother, at the National Palace as part of its yearlong bicentennial celebrations.

In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister trade has taken root: entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to the United States to force them into prostitution.

Mexican police raided a drug gang safe house before dawn on Saturday and rescued two television journalists kidnapped by cartel members who demanded networks broadcast their messages.

Hidden cameras have captured a startling stream of illegal immigrants and drug runners traveling freely from Mexico into the United States through federal forest and game preserves in southern Arizona.

Grow up on the water, the children of southern Louisiana learn, and you'll never go hungry. As long as you can toss a line, a net or a trap, you can eat -- and eat well.

The gunmen did not say a word as they jumped from their cars and stormed the private party. They simply opened fire. When they were done, 17 people lay dead and 18 wounded.

Pictured: Mexican federal police present suspected members of the drug cartel of Sinaloa during a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City.

Mexico's navy says marines raided a house in the Pacific resort of Acapulco and captured a suspected regional chief of a drug gang involved in a bloody turf war  in the center and south of Mexico.