Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday.
Mexico's lower house finance committee approved on Tuesday raising value-added tax and high-earner income tax rates as part of a government plan to reduce the country's dependence on waning oil revenues.
Los Amigos Invisibles, the Venezuelan funk band from Caracas that relocated to Brooklyn more than eight years ago, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2011. But the party has already started, with the group enjoying an ever-growing following throughout Mexico, South America and its adopted home country.
With Halloween just around the corner, you may be wondering where some of the spookiest, creepiest, eeriest, most haunted and/or best places to visit on Halloween are located around the
Mexico's state oil company Pemex has discovered oil at the Leek-1 well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is testing it to see if it is commercially viable, a Pemex spokesman said on Thursday.
Street vendor Antonio Zuniga was picked up by police in Mexico City in late 2005 without a warrant, jailed and sentenced to 20 years for the murder of a man he had never met.
Mexican auto production rose in September on a monthly basis for a third consecutive month, suggesting the sector is pulling out of a deep slump.
French company Viadeo, which runs a social networking website aimed at professionals, has acquired Canadian peer Unyk, to become the second-largest firm globally after LinkedIn.
Once swine flu patients are sick enough to need hospital care, they decline very fast, requiring ventilators and advanced treatments that quickly strain scarce hospital resources, several teams reported on Monday.
Buoyed by a substantial first-place U.K. debut, the Pixar cartoon Up reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the foreign box office during the weekend.
The auto boom came fast to this harbor town on Lake Michigan where Ramblers first rolled off the line a century ago.
It could take years for the World Health Organization to downgrade the H1N1 flu from a pandemic to seasonal-like virus, the U.N. agency said on Friday.
Lucy Liu is starring in the Mexican-produced Nomads, an English-language drama.
The United States slipped from first to third place after the U.K. and Australia in a ranking of financial development released by the World Economic Forum on Thursday, as the global financial crisis badly hurt bank stability in developed countries.
Global investments in renewable energy technology like wind, solar and hydroelectric power have slid dramatically this year as the economic crisis limited government and private funds for new projects, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
The United States came under pressure to show leadership in U.N. climate talks on Wednesday with Mexico saying its neighbor is a stumbling block in efforts to try to craft a tough global climate agreement by December.
The United States came under pressure to show leadership in U.N. climate talks on Wednesday with Mexico saying its neighbor is a stumbling block in efforts to try to craft a tough global climate agreement by December.
Broker dealers must be held to a higher standard if they provide financial advice to clients, regulators told lawmakers on Tuesday as Congress weighs changes to the U.S. financial regulatory system.
Leading Mexican retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico is expected to post a strong 15 percent rise in third-quarter profits as it uses promotions aimed at shoppers with little money to spend trying to beat the recession.
Pepsi Bottling Group Inc reported a slightly higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, as price increases and easing commodity costs helped offset falling sales volume.
Mexican construction company ICA and partner Goldman Sachs placed a package of toll highways on the stock market on Friday, the first use of a new investment vehicle meant to boost financing for infrastructure projects.
Beer heavyweight SABMiller Plc is seen as a front-runner to buy Mexico's No. 2 brewery, owned by FEMSA, possibly drawing rival AB InBev into a showdown in the country's lucrative market.
