Pope Francis on Sunday created the first saints of his reign, canonizing some 800 Italian martyrs who refused to convert to Islam in the 15th century, as well as a Colombian and a Mexican who founded congregations.
A gas tanker exploded on a highway in a Mexico City suburb on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more as nearby homes and cars burst into flames.
At least 11 people, including a soldier, were killed in three clashes between armed groups and authorities in northeastern Mexico, a state attorney said Sunday.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake has struck in the Mexican state of Michoacan, causing buildings to sway 200 miles away in Mexico City.
Mexican police killed a 13-year-old boy during a raid to rescue a hostage, officials said.
Mexico’s attorney general says authorities have yet to determine a motive in the alleged attack by federal police officers on a U.S. Embassy vehicle that wounded two CIA officers six months ago.
A truck loaded with fireworks exploded during a religious procession in a rural village in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens more, authorities said.
The amount of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.
A journalist who ran an online publication in northern Mexico has been fatally shot, according to a posting Monday on the website, which said the man’s body was riddled with at least 18 bullets.
Mexico said Tuesday that more than 26,000 people have been reported kidnapped or missing over a six-year period ending in November 2012, amid a bloody drug war.
Mexico’s animal health agency says a bird flu outbreak at seven farms in central Mexico has affected as many as 582,000 chickens.
Authorities in the Mexican state of Jalisco say tests have revealed that a girl who gave birth two weeks ago is between 12 and 13 years of age, not 9 as the parents had claimed.
Mexican farmers who took up arms against drug-gang violence and other crime in the mountains of southern Mexico have turned over to authorities 11 of 53 people that the vigilantes have put in improvised jails over the last month as suspected criminals.
