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Controversial goals

2009-11-19T15:31:22Z

After Thierry Henry handed France a ticket to the World Cup with a controversial assist, we look at five other goals involving handball

The best books of the year

2009-11-19T12:55:23Z

Our reviewers name the titles that have meant the most to them over the past 12 months

Mexican drug barons seized in nationwide American swoop

2009-10-23T10:03:32Z

More than 300 people have been arrested in drugs raids across the US in the largest single strike at Mexico's drug operations in America

Museum show is monument to Aztec ruler

2009-09-14T07:31:18Z

A 500-year-old monument that has never been seen outside Mexico is the centrepiece of the British Museum's main autumn show

Sin Nombre is Mexican masterpiece

2009-08-13T23:00:00Z

Director Cary Fukunaga's outstanding debut Sin Nombre is one more example of the powerful imagination of Latin America�s film industry.

Tui feeling better as it shakes off swine flu

2009-08-12T08:00:02Z

Mexico's swine flu outbreak cost Tui Travel �7 million in lost profits but the package tours group said today that Brits are now flocking back to the Central American country to take advantage of knockdown prices

Brown's adviser has swine flu symptoms

2009-07-13T06:30:08Z

Swine flu has reached Downing Street after it emerged that Gordon Brown's adviser on climate change has been infected

GPs call for calm as thousands seek swine flu advice

2009-07-13T09:03:35Z

GP surgeries were today told to prepare for a "swine flu panic" as thousands seek advice after the death of the first otherwise healthy patient

New swine flu warning after young mother dies in hospital

2009-05-06T08:20:17Z

A new mother has become the second person to die after catching swine flu in America, triggering a new alert over the severity of the virus

Cruise ship taxes cut as Mexico tries to lift tourism

2009-05-05T08:14:16Z

Mexico has cut taxes on cruise ships visiting the country to encourage tour operators to return to its shores in the wake of the swine flu outbreak

How the swine flu virus is spreading

2009-05-05T08:41:00Z

China: A Mexican plane today arrived in China to collect Mexicans who have been quarantined because of fears they may be infected with swine flu. About 70 were confined despite only one confirmed case of the virus. 26 people have now died of the virus in Mexico and more than 1,000 cases have been reported in 20 countries.

London student fighting swine flu �in a bad way�

2009-05-01T08:29:39Z

A 22-year-old London man with swine flu was �in a bad way� in hospital

Cooling the fever over swine flu

2009-05-01T06:36:59Z

The Valley is full of people who shift regularly between here and Mexico, from tech manufacturers running maquiladoras just across the border to regular working folks

Shops and schools close in 'eerily quiet' Mexico City

2009-04-30T08:18:48Z

Mexico was in a state of shutdown as the government battled to contain the spread of deadly swine flu

World Health Organisation raises level 5 alert

2009-04-30T08:21:01Z

The World Health Organisation has raised its flu level warning to five, one short of a full pandemic

Mexico races cancelled

2009-04-29T08:41:53Z

Motor sport: A1GP has been forced to cancel the final round of the season in Mexico due to the recent outbreak of swine flu

Let's not panic - at least, not yet

2009-04-29T08:03:54Z

The very possibility that swine fever has reached Clapham has brought the global scare uncomfortably close to home in London

School shut as swine flu spreads

2009-04-29T11:35:51Z

A British school was shut after a 12-year-old pupil tested positive for the swine flu virus

Six Londoners feared to have virus are told to stay at home and await test results

2009-04-29T08:52:16Z

Six people from London, including two honeymooners, have been quarantined at home with suspected swine flu

I feel great says boy, 5, at centre of outbreak

2009-04-29T08:55:35Z

A five-year-old boy emerged as the suspected first victim of swine flu in Mexico

Pig manure dumps could be pandemic ground zero

2009-04-28T08:22:24Z

A series of manure dumps near a small Mexican village could be "ground zero" for the flu pandemic now threatening the world, it has emerged

Swine flu - around the world

2009-04-28T08:52:26Z

Pandemic warning as flights are cancelled

2009-04-27T13:19:06Z

Britons are warned to avoid all but essential travel to Mexico as the deadly swine flu virus can no longer be contained

British airports on alert over swine flu outbreak

2009-04-27T08:44:11Z

The death toll from swine flu in Mexico reached 103 today as British airports were put on alert over fears of a global pandemic

Let�s just wait and see before we start to panic

2009-04-27T13:37:24Z

US to seize assets of Mexican drug cartels

2009-04-16T07:47:23Z

President Barack Obama arrives in Mexico after signalling he will take on the drugs cartels that have brought mayhem and bloodshed to America's neighbour

Sven's set to copy Hiddink job-share role

2009-02-17T09:38:41Z

Football: Sven-Goran Eriksson is poised to emulate Guus Hiddink by combining his role as Mexico coach with the manager's job at Portsmouth

Athletes fear cost cuts will harm 2012 village

2008-10-22T08:28:52Z

Concern is growing among nations due to compete in the 2012 Games that our Olympic village will not be up to standard

Police stumble on private zoo when they raid drug lords' HQ

2008-10-21T08:05:16Z

Suspected drug smugglers kept a menagerie of lions, tigers and panthers in the garden of a suburban Mexican house where police swooped on more than a dozen gangsters

A Mexican trailblazer

2006-09-12T23:00:00Z

Luis Bu�uel's 1950 exercise in cinema v�rit�, Los Olvidades, may have been shot for a pittance, but its politics are sadly still relevant.