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Your guide to Copenhagen and the global climate change summit

19.11.09
Energy analysis: Here's what those over-informed environmentalists/spotty greeno-commies/clean-tech hedge fund managers are talking about... more

Passengers flee as 25,000-volt cable snaps at St Pancras

24.09.09
Passengers disembarking a Eurostar train were forced to flee in terror as a live overhead cable fell inches from them... more

Museum show is monument to Aztec ruler

14.09.09
A 500-year-old monument that has never been seen outside Mexico is the centrepiece of the British Museum's main autumn show... 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

Rudo Y Cursi sees funny side of footie

26.06.09
Carlos Cuarón’s footballing comedy Rudo Y Cursi s shows the beautiful game as a route out of poverty but also as constant prey for Mexico’s endemic corruption.... more

How the swine flu virus is spreading

05.05.09
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. ... 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

We can't get vital drug say high-risk pair

30.04.09
Two people at risk of developing swine flu have criticised health chiefs after revealing they had been unable to get medication despite being designated priority cases by doctors... more

Supplies of anti-flu drug Tamiflu to be kept under guard

30.04.09
London was on red alert amid warnings that up to 94,000 could die if a swine flu pandemic strikes... 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

Pandemic fears wipe billions off travel shares

27.04.09
Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of travel companies around the world amid growing fears of a swine-flu pandemic... more

British airports on alert over swine flu outbreak

27.04.09
The death toll from swine flu in Mexico reached 103 today as British airports were put on alert over fears of a global pandemic... 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

Feeling sick at Citigroup over hedge losses

19.01.09
Citigroup's Corporate Special Opportunities hedge fund is returning only three cents on the dollar to investors — underscoring the depths of the difficulties at the alternative investment unit once headed by the bank’s current chief executive, Vikram Pandit... 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

Kylie Minogue's secret reunion with newly single movie director Alexander Dahm

01.04.08
Kylie Minogue sent the fans into a spin after spending time with married movie director Alexander Dahm last year. And the pop princess has again caught up with the Chilean - but this time round, he's single ... 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

A hot new Mexican wave

31.10.07
Move over Tex-Mex cheesy nachos, real Aztec cuisine is spicing up the capital.... more

Bare and square

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

CDs of the week

04.05.07
Bjork is back and nuttier than ever, Beverley Knight churns out another soul album and The Manic Street Preachers show a return to form in this week's offerings.... 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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