The circumstances were not promising. Mr. Scott, 20, was awaiting sentencing for drug possession and robbery, but he was allowed supervised release from jail in May to...

The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels. A brother...

Filed under: News, Weird There’s never a convenient time to be arrested for drug dealing, but at least you can try to look badass in your mugshot. Sadly for one...

Filed under: News, Weird When Mexican officials discovered almost a ton of cocaine inside a shipment of frozen sharks, it was hard not to feel a tinge of respect for...

Filed under: News, Weird, Nature The mystery of crop circles has finally been explained! At least, crop circles that have been appearing in poppy fields of Tasmania. In...

If you know what’s good for you, fisherman Teodoro Contreras says, stay away from certain places after sunset on the beaches of Mexico’s southern...

“I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.” Mr. Reta was 13 when he was recruited by the Zetas, the infamous...

The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks. Armed officers found slabs of cocaine inside more than...

Recently I received a mail from one of my friends, at first I dismissed it thinking after all these were the usual forwards that do rounds to all who have email...

Filed under: News, Weird For the record, no one who works at Asylum is a drugs mule. But if we were hypothetically to bring illegal stuff into a country we’d at...

It was the last image the Mexican government wanted from one of its sunny seaside resorts. In the heart of Acapulco, soldiers fought a blazing battle against drug...

The Obama administration plans to use a combination of new technology and old-fashioned police work to crack down on the extensive drug trade along the U.S.-Mexican...

We keep hearing of drug peddlers being arrested every now and then, some victim to their own folly while others driven by overconfidence. A 26-year-old Argentine woman...

The cult-like La Familia Michoacana has contaminated city halls across one state, federal officials say. It sometimes decides who runs and who doesn’t, who lives...

A bomb in a mosque in south-east Iran has killed at least 19 people and injured 60, the governor of Sistan-Baluchestan province said. The explosion happened in...

Mexican troops have poured into the home state of President Calderón and arrested 27 public officials, including mayors, police chiefs and a judge, suspected of being...

The murders of two courageous Sicilian judges in 1992 shocked Italy to the core, scandalised Europe, and forced the Italian state to take the Mafia threat seriously for...

The fast moving world, with parental influence on a decline, has left their young ones exposed to social nuisances. A “LifeCenter” in London has come...

Americans frightened by swine flu are snapping up two antiviral medicines that treat the disease, whether they have it or not.

The senior citizens posed as tourists taking cruise holidays around South America to pick up packages of the drug to bring back to Spain, police said. Two women in...