Mexico City  - A mudslide on a mountain road in south-eastern Mexico killed at least two people and some 20 others remained missing, state authorities said in Oaxaca.

"So far two dead bodies have been recovered," Oaxaca Civil Protection official Luis Zarate told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "We are talking of some 20 people
(missing), but we have no further details yet."

The mud buried a truck carrying construction materials and two passenger vans, Zarate said.

Mexico City  - Two suspects who were in hospital recovering from a traffic accident were detained by the military Thursday in Mexico as investigators probe their connection with a grenade attack that left seven people dead in the western state of Michoacan Monday.

The two men, aged 19 and 26, are natives of Michoacan. Their van was overturned early Tuesday as they drove at a high speed through a road in the state of Zacatecas.

Mexico City - A jail mutiny in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana left at least 19 people dead and some 50 injured, authorities in the state of Baja California said in media reports on Thursday.

Some 300 inmates reportedly took part in the mutiny that began in the area of the prison reserved for women and then spread across the facility on Wednesday, just three days after another mutiny left three people dead in the same prison.

State and federal police officers managed to put down the uprising late Wednesday.

Eyewitnesses said shots and machine-gun fine were heard for hours inside the jail, near the US border.

Mexico City  - More than 11,700 Mexican children and teenagers tried to cross the US border alone and were sent back to their native country in the first seven months of this year, Mexican migration officials said Wednesday.

The figure was released as Mexican officials signed two agreements with the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) to protect migrant children.

Mexico City  - Who did it and why?

Those were the questions plaguing Mexicans after a violent attack on a holiday celebration on a public square that took seven lives late Monday night.

The two grenades thrown into the crowd in Morelia, the hometown of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, left the country dumbstruck as it commemorated the Cry of Independence - the midnight start of Tuesday's Independence Day celebrations and one of the most festive holidays in Mexico.

New York  - Major US stock indices were recovering Tuesday after turmoil in the financial sector on Monday led to the worst day on Wall Street since the September 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 40 points early Tuesday afternoon, despite opening the trading day down about 150 points. The Dow plunged more than 500 points, or 4.4 per cent, on Monday.