Mexico's third-largest city has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude.

Mexican once nominated for Guinness title as world's oldest woman dies at 119. A Mexican once put forward for the title of world's oldest woman has died at 119, government officials said Thursday.

Asia-Pacific leaders said Sunday that talks on a binding international pact to combat the potential disaster of climate change would drag on past a crunch meeting in Copenhagen next month.

Asia-Pacific leaders on Sunday buried hopes a key UN meeting next month would forge a binding pact to combat climate change, saying talks would drag on well past the Copenhagen meeting.

AP Exclusive: Mexican Foreign Minister says high violence shows hardline on drugs working. Mexico's Foreign Minister said Monday the startlingly high death toll of her government's all-out war against drug trafficking shows the policy is working.

Gunmen kill 2 Canadian men at Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta. Two Canadian men were shot to death in execution-style slayings outside an apartment building in the Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Monday.

Gore, Mexican president discuss importance of breaking deadlock over climate change treaty. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has met with Mexico's president to discuss the importance of breaking an impasse over a new global warming pact.

Kidnap victim's dad says Mexico should fight other crime as aggressively as drug trafficking. A former Mexican sports commissioner whose daughter was killed by her abductors criticized the government Wednesday for failing to combat crimes like kidnapping as aggressively as it fights drug trafficking.

Mexico's political theater reaches new heights (or lows) with street vendor's election scheme. An eccentric street vendor known for his Rambo-style headband took charge of Mexico City's most populous borough Thursday ? at least for a few hours.

Global recession has boosted jobless lines worldwide, but data shows marked differences. Unemployment is rising around the world as the recession leaves few corners untouched ? but sharp differences remain between companies directly hit by financial or housing-market collapses and those that have deliberately protected jobs with expensive measures ? including subsidizing shorter working weeks.

Mexico reports largest seizures of precursor chemicals for methamphetamine. Two raids by security forces netted the largest seizures of methamphetamine precursor chemicals in Mexico's history, federal officials announced Friday.

First bricks of cocaine were found stashed in statues of the Virgin Mary, then in a frozen shark. Now, Mexican authorities have seized a load of "over-ripe" bananas bearing 2.6 tonnes of marijuana.

Mutilated body of Mexican driver's license official found hanging from bridge in Tijuana. The mutilated body of a state official who authorities said was suspected of giving fake driver's licenses to drug gang members was found hanging from a bridge Friday in the Mexican border city of Tijuana.

Former US, Mexican diplomats recommend new US assault weapons ban to improve border security. The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.

Canada has refused a respected Mexican policeman's bid for political asylum despite his claims he faces death threats at home from drug cartels and corrupt officials, media reports said Wednesday.

Tens of thousands march against Mexican government decision to disband public utility. Tens of thousands of people have marched to protest Mexican President Felipe Calderon's decision to disband a public electricity company.

At least 150,000 people protested in Mexico City against the surprise closure last weekend of a state-run electricity company, police and unions said.

Mexican police have found the chopped up bodies of nine men in 18 plastic bags inside a van in the south of the country, a statement said Friday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Drug hitmen beheaded 10 rivals, chopped up their bodies and left them in plastic bags on an isolated road in western Mexico, the latest gruesome attack in a raging drug war, authorities said on Friday.

Cocaine consumption doubles in Mexico over 6 years, while overall drug use up only slightly. The use of cocaine doubled in Mexico over the last six years, partly because the drug became more available in the country, a government report said Friday.