A nine-year-old girl took a hand grenade to an elementary school in Morelos, a state in central Mexico, authorities said.

Administrators at the school in the city of Cuautla called the emergency resp

Nearly two million dead people are still registered to vote this coming November, while another 24 million US voter registrations contain mistakes or imprecise data, the Pew Center on the States says

An advertisement that appeared on a Mexican website to sell a ‘beautiful baby’ for its organs has caused outrage and indignation on social networks.

The advertisement that appeared on the MercadoLibr

A singer who was kidnapped in northern Mexico's largest city Monterrey was found dead even though his family paid ransom for his release, officials said.

Erick Garza Garza's family was contacted by t

Brazil has returned to the US nearly 47 tonnes of hospital waste that had been intercepted last October in the northeastern state of Pernambuco by customs agents, an official said on Sunday.

The wast

At least eight people were killed and more than 20 others wounded when gunmen opened fire at a disco in Villa Nueva, a city in the southern part of the Guatemala City metropolitan area, authorities sa

Mexico has set a new Guinness record for the world’s highest suspension bridge.

A 60-year-old bishop in Los Angeles has given his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI after it was disclosed he was the father of two teenage children, the Vatican said.

Benedict has accepted the resig

A Mexican man was arrested for raping his 14-year-old daughter and then selling her for 5,000 pesos (about $365) to his friend, who also sexually abused her, authorities said.

The two men and one of

Russia plans to build a factory in Cuba to make ammunition for AK-47 assault rifles, an official said on Thursday.

"The components were taken to Cuba a few years ago. Now, it is just a matter of taki