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Pacific castaway's story a 'miracle' for his parents
For Salvadoran couple Ricardo and Maria Julia Alvarenga, the reappearance of their son after his incredible story of survival adrift in the Pacific for 13 months is nothing short of a miracle.
05 February 2014
Pacific castaway lands back in civilisation
Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro.
03 February 2014
Astana Arlans: Kazakhstan conquers Russia
The Astana Arlans have proved that they will not tolerate a lose in their home ring by flattening the Russian Boxing Team 5:0 on February 1.
03 February 2014
Mexican castaway 'getting better' after months adrift in Pacific
A Mexican man who claims to have survived 16 months adrift on the Pacific was Saturday regaining strength on a remote Marshall Islands atoll as a navy ship was sent to pick him up.
01 February 2014
Astana Arlans captain Samat Bashenov named Best Asian WSB boxer
The Astana Arlans captain Samat Bashenov has been named The Best Asian WSB Boxer of 2013.
24 January 2014
Mexican security forces capture cartel leader
Mexican security forces arrested 38 people in the troubled region of Michoacan, including a leading figure of the notorious Knights Templar drug cartel.
20 January 2014
Mexico urges anti-cartel vigilantes to disarm
Mexico's government urged vigilantes on Monday to quit their growing armed struggle against a drug cartel and go home, saying federal forces will handle security in their embattled western towns.
14 January 2014
'Exceptionally rare' conjoined whales found in Mexico
Fishermen have found two conjoined gray whale calves in a northwestern Mexican lagoon, a discovery that a government marine biologist described as "exceptionally rare."
08 January 2014
Nine dead after gunmen storm Mexico prison: official
Gunmen stormed a prison in southwestern Mexico on Friday in an attack that left five of the assailants and four inmates dead, officials said.
04 January 2014
Two Mexican clowns detained over kidnapping
Two men who worked as clowns named "Pistachon" and "Freski Star" in western Mexico have been arrested in connection with an alleged kidnapping, authorities said Thursday.
03 January 2014
Philippines arrests three linked to Mexico drug cartel: police
Philippine anti-drug police said on Thursday they had arrested three people connected to Mexico's feared Sinoloa drug cartel while they were storing narcotics.
26 December 2013
Mothers' caravan finds 12 kin in search for missing migrants
Mothers from across Central America whose children went missing in Mexico while trying to reach the United States found 12 family members after a 16-day search, officials said Wednesday.
20 December 2013
Mexico's Congress approves historic oil reform
Mexico's Congress approved historic energy reform Thursday aimed at luring foreign oil firms back into the country and ending the state's 75-year-old monopoly following a heated debate.
13 December 2013
Astana Arlans crush Mexico Guerreros 4-1
The Astana Arlans won over the Mexico Guerreros, leaving the Warriors no chance to redeem themselves after the unfortunate start of the season.
09 December 2013
Film spotlights pop culture inspired by Mexican drug gangs
A new documentary shines a worrying and grisly light on a growing Latino pop culture phenomenon in the United States inspired by the deadly drug violence which has ravaged neighboring Mexico.
07 December 2013
Mexico recovers radioactive waste that was on stolen truck
Mexican authorities Thursday recovered dangerous radioactive material from a cancer-treating medical device that was on a stolen truck and abandoned in a field, the interior ministry said.
06 December 2013
Astana Arlans playing it safe against Mexico Guerreros
The WSB Champions Astana Arlans are facing the Mexico Guerreros - who had an unfortunate start of the 4th WSB Season - in Almaty, Kazakhstan on December 6.
04 December 2013
Mexico finds 64 bodies in mass graves
A total of 64 bodies have been found in mass graves in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, authorities said Monday as they wrapped up a probe of alleged victims of a drug cartel.
03 December 2013
Argentina, Spain agree to negotiate over YPF nationalization
Argentina, Spain and Mexico have agreed to negotiate a deal on Buenos Aires' 2012 nationalization of Repsol's stake in YPF, the Economy Ministry said Monday.
26 November 2013
Mexico to give equality prize to Pakistan's Malala
Mexico said Sunday it will award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for championing girls' rights to education.
25 November 2013