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The DJ you've never heard of with a global audience of three million

03.08.11
London DJ Goldierocks can turn novice bands into global stars and has recently seen her audience top three million... more

US agent is shot dead in Mexico

16.02.11
An American immigration and customs agent is shot dead and another wounded whilst driving from Mexico City to the northern city of Monterrey ... more

28 dead after petrol thieves spark blast in Mexico

20.12.10
Thieves trying to steal crude oil from a pipeline set off a massive explosion near Mexico City, killing 28 people... more

Madonna into groove with first gym

30.11.10
Madonna lead an exercise class in Mexico City at the opening of her first gym... more

Leap Year brings subtle mysteries

26.11.10
Not to be confused with the dire US rom-com starring Amy Adams, Leap Year follows a month in the life of a freelance journalist... more

Viva Mexico! 200 years of independence

16.09.10
Mexico celebrates 200 years of independence from Spain with nationwide street parties... more

Mexican troops find dozens of drug war victims' bodies

25.08.10
Mexican marines find 72 bodies at a ranch after a drugs cartel shoot-out that left one soldier and three gunmen dead... more

Smuggler's monkey business at Mexico City airport

20.07.10
A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was held at Mexico City’s international airport and a search revealed 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing... more

A world in motion from Francis Alÿs

28.06.10
Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs is a restless spirit. His works vary from films capturing his eccentric journeys around his adopted home town, Mexico City, to tiny, quietly surreal paintings.... more

Scared matador fined for fleeing bull

15.06.10
Video: A matador was fined for breach of contract in Mexico City after he fled a charging bull and leapt over the wall to safety... more

No more tacos to go for overweight Mexican cops

08.03.10
Mexico City police force has introduced a lower-calorie menu in its cafeterias after finding out officers are overweight.... more

Salvador Cabanas still in serious condition

26.01.10
Paraguay international Salvador Cabanas remains in a serious condition after undergoing surgery today for a gunshot wound to his head... more

Mexico City passes gay marriage law

22.12.09
The mayor of Mexico City is expected to sign a Bill legalising same-sex marriage - the first city in Latin America to do so... more

Divinely inspired hijacker's 'bomb' was can of fruit juice

10.09.09
A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a plane in Mexico City by claiming a can of juice was a bomb... more

Shops and schools close in 'eerily quiet' Mexico City

30.04.09
Mexico was in a state of shutdown as the government battled to contain the spread of deadly swine flu... more

Mexico races cancelled

29.04.09
Motor sport: A1GP has been forced to cancel the final round of the season in Mexico due to the recent outbreak of swine flu ... more

Lessons of the Lehman epidemic

29.04.09
On 16 November 2002 the first official case of Sars was recorded in China. Panic ensued. Media and modern communications fed this frenzy and transmitted it across borders ... more

Behind the mask of last emperor of the Aztecs

07.04.09
Moctezuma II is known in the West as a tragic ruler who lost his empire to the Spanish conquistadors, but an exhibition at the British Museum might change people's minds... more

Carla's Mexican sparkle

10.03.09
French First Lady Carla Bruni showed off her diamonds at a state dinner in Mexico City... more

Año Uña

27.11.08
A wonderful narrated slide show - but worryingly similar to Y Tu Mama Tambien which was made by the director's father.... more

Kidnappers kill child by injecting acid into his heart

04.11.08
Kidnappers grabbed a five-year-old boy from a Mexico City street market and killed him by injecting acid into his heart... more

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

21.10.08
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... more

Money's influence in La Zona

16.10.08
La Zona is a well-made realist study of what happens when society is divided between rich and poor. But is also schematic.... more

Time for sport to take our breath away

08.08.08
An Olympic Games to take the breath away was about to be ignited amid the red glow of Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium... more

Composer Nyman holds concerts for knife victims

02.06.08
Award-winning composer Michael Nyman is to dedicate a series of concerts to recent victims of knife crime... more

Bono up close

21.02.08
U2 3D is rock that's just a bit too temperate to be properly radical and the show looks rehearsed to the minutest detail.... more

Bare and square

08.05.07
Thousands of volunteers have bared all for photographer Spencer Tunick - in the name of art.... more

Trafalgar Square...minus lions and Nelson

19.03.07
Believe it or not this is Trafalgar Square. The vibrant painting is the vision of renowned architect Zaha Hadid for what the square could look like.... more

A Mexican trailblazer

13.09.06
Luis Buñuel's 1950 exercise in cinema vérité, Los Olvidades, may have been shot for a pittance, but its politics are sadly still relevant.... more

Mexican heatwave

06.09.06
The NFT's season of Mexican movies is a must for anyone wanting to bite deeper into one of the globe's most vibrant cinema trends, says Larushka Ivan-Zadeh.... more


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