The dramatic escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sounds almost too elaborate to be true.

"It was just a miracle. I counted we had about five ways to die. It was pretty close," said sailor Murray Vereker-Bindon.

Tim Stewart experiences exotic flavours on his chef's pilgrimage through Mexico.

Every Happy Meal sold at a McDonald's in Mexico from this weekend will include a New Zealand kiwifruit.

Days of flash flooding, tornadoes and rain across central Texas and Oklahoma swept away hundreds of homes and left at least five people dead.

Fulfilling a long-held ambition, Ed Vulliamy drives the 3200km length of the US-Mexico border and discovers a land of beauty, poverty and paradox.

Three workers are missing after the huge blaze on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that killed four workers and burned for hours.

Nine babies who were discovered alive after a gas blast at a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City are being DNA tested by authorities in an attempt to reunite them with parents.

Kiwis can be found nearly everywhere there's a rugby ball, even in Mexico.

Affinities, rather than the geographical proximity between two countries, are often the true basis for a close relationship, writes Wynne Gray.

Lydia Ko has made a strong start at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational tournament in Mexico City. The world number three and LPGA rookie of the year fired a four-under 68 to sit in third place.

Beneath the stars as dusk fell, Maria de los Angeles Pineda and her husband were dancing. But then came word that a demonstration was forming in the town plaza.

In a tiny Mexican coastal village, the fisherman had long been given up for dead.

Mexican nuclear official have said a stolen container of radioactive material has been found empty.

The death toll from days of flooding in southern and central Mexico has risen to 80, and new reports of landslides in a village near the resort of Acapulco threatened to drive the number of casualties even higher.

The death toll has risen to 47 from the unusual one-two punch of a tropical storm and a hurricane hitting Mexico at nearly the same time.

Tropical Storm Ingrid and the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel have drenched Mexico's Pacific and Gulf coasts with torrential rains, flooding towns and cities, cutting off highways and setting off deadly landslides.

If the annual cheese roll in England or wife carrying competition in Finland is too boring for you, here are five very strange ones that might be worth visiting, even if it's just to tweet a pic from.

Seismic activity is continuing at the Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City and authorities say they have readied shelters and identified evacuation routes in case they should be needed.

There are hotel suites worldwide that are so fancy they can command an eye-watering annual wage to stay for just one night.