Mexican security screeners should have spotted the bomb-like device a hijacking suspect carried onto the commercial airliner he allegedly commandeered a short while later, the head of the nation's public safety agency said Thursday.
A 44-year-old Bolivian drug addict and alcoholic who describes himself as a church minister was the sole person responsible for the brief hijacking Wednesday of a commercial jetliner, a Mexican official said.
We are sitting cross-legged in the water, 60 feet underground in a Mexican cave surrounded by some of the most beautiful formations I've ever seen, as the niece of a famous shaman chants a Mayan prayer asking the gods to let us go in peace.
Here is the current list of the 2009 preseason basketball tournaments. It will be updated as information becomes available.
Donna Savic thinks she has a reservation at the Barcelo Maya Palace in Cancun, Mexico. She's wrong. Orbitz booked her at a smaller, lower-rated hotel on the same complex. What now?
The Mexican military has arrested a suspect identified as the head of a drug cartel in the Yucatan Peninsula, federal defense ministry officials said.
The outbreak of swine flu, that has killed more than 150 people in Mexico, has also affected the football world with the semfinals and final of the CONCACAF section of the under-17 World Cup, scheduled for Wednesday and Saturday, having been cancelled -- world governing body FIFA has confirmed on their official Web site.
Meeting planner Gail Murphy heard about the travel warning to Mexico too late in the day on Monday to do anything about her plans to head to Cancun the following day.
The Harry Potter star and "nerd" can't wait to hit the books, not the beach
Brian Gay strengthened his grip on the Heritage in South Carolina as Briton Luke Donald made his move onto the leaderboard at Harbour Town Golf Links.
Mexican security screeners should have spotted the bomb-like device a hijacking suspect carried onto the commercial airliner he allegedly commandeered a short while later, the head of the nation's public safety agency said Thursday.
A 44-year-old Bolivian drug addict and alcoholic who describes himself as a church minister was the sole person responsible for the brief hijacking Wednesday of a commercial jetliner, a Mexican official said.
We are sitting cross-legged in the water, 60 feet underground in a Mexican cave surrounded by some of the most beautiful formations I've ever seen, as the niece of a famous shaman chants a Mayan prayer asking the gods to let us go in peace.
Here is the current list of the 2009 preseason basketball tournaments. It will be updated as information becomes available.
Donna Savic thinks she has a reservation at the Barcelo Maya Palace in Cancun, Mexico. She's wrong. Orbitz booked her at a smaller, lower-rated hotel on the same complex. What now?
The Mexican military has arrested a suspect identified as the head of a drug cartel in the Yucatan Peninsula, federal defense ministry officials said.
The outbreak of swine flu, that has killed more than 150 people in Mexico, has also affected the football world with the semfinals and final of the CONCACAF section of the under-17 World Cup, scheduled for Wednesday and Saturday, having been cancelled -- world governing body FIFA has confirmed on their official Web site.
Meeting planner Gail Murphy heard about the travel warning to Mexico too late in the day on Monday to do anything about her plans to head to Cancun the following day.
The Harry Potter star and "nerd" can't wait to hit the books, not the beach
Brian Gay strengthened his grip on the Heritage in South Carolina as Briton Luke Donald made his move onto the leaderboard at Harbour Town Golf Links.
A lot of Americans are wondering: Is it safe to travel to Mexico? It depends where you go, and what your intentions are once you get there.
This spring break, thousands of college students will ditch the bars and the beaches to do something more meaningful with their vacation time.
Spanish lessons, yoga or a snooze on the beach in an oversized casita?
The police chief in Cancún has been relieved of his duties and placed under house arrest while he is investigated in the killing of a retired Mexican general who had been the area's anti-drug chief for less than 24 hours, Mexican media are reporting.
A recently retired Mexican army general whose bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday near Cancun had taken over as the area's top antidrug official less than 24 hours earlier, officials said.
The bound bodies of a Mexican general and two soldiers were found Tuesday near Cancun, news reports said.
Searchers looking for a woman believed to have fallen from a cruise ship off the Yucatan coast of Mexico have seen no sign of her, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Friday afternoon.
All eyes are on Tropical Storm Gustav as it heads toward the Gulf. If you're planning on traveling during this hurricane season, here's what you need to know.
No one knows better than the police which tricks criminals are using to prey on unsuspecting tourists.
A police chief's murder - and more evidence that crooked cops are moonlighting for the drug cartels - prompts new urgency in Washington to help combat the drug gangs
Even with Hurricane Dean taking aim at Cancun, Mexico, last August, Miguel Guillen wasn't worried. After all, he had insured his vacation.
My first experience with an all-inclusive resort was a decade ago during a freezing February in New York City. I was easy prey for this promise: a startlingly low price for a trip to Cancún, which included airfare, four nights in a double room and meals at any of three "exciting, international" restaurants.
ACCRA, Ghana -- Alain Nkong is something of an accidental villain this weekend in Ghana.
For the first time in Mexican First Division history, the trophy sits in one of the country's most well-known resort towns.
A rash of gangland-style killings in Cancun is being blamed on a battle between rival Cuban-American gangs over the lucrative trade in bringing Cubans into the U.S.
Bliss Nicholson flies to Mexico every year, not to soak up the sun in Cancún but to recruit legal migrant workers for his landscaping business in Middleton, Wis. With the local unemployment rate under 4%, few legal residents in his area care to work long hours in the hot sun planting trees or laying irrigation pipes for $10 an hour. Unlike many in his industry, Nicholson chooses not to hire illegal immigrants. So the annual road trip is his only recourse.
Once a monster Category 5 hurricane, Dean was downgraded to a tropical depression Wednesday evening as it rapidly lost strength after battering Mexico's eastern coast.
Hurricane Dean burgeoned into a Category 5 storm -- capable of inflicting catastrophic damage when it makes landfall early Tuesday.
Hurricane Dean battered the southern coast of Jamaica with heavy rains and surf as its eye passed offshore late Sunday, apparently sparing the Caribbean island the worst of its 145 mph winds.
Acknowledging the airline has a long way to go to regain its customers' trust, JetBlue Airways was faced with yet more flight cancellations and irate customers Friday after a spokesman on Thursday said that the airline expected to start this "morning fresh and prepared for the remainder of the holiday weekend."
If you think an extravagant five-star skyscraper, beach side resort or cliff-side villa is the ultimate hotel experience, then think again. Prepare for a new dimension in luxury lodging ... floating pyramids.
Bad weather kept JetBlue Airways passengers on a Cancun, Mexico-bound flight trapped on the tarmac for eight hours Wednesday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
It's going to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel period ever. There will be 25 million people taking to the skies and over 38 million hitting the highways.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday that he expects an immigration bill to be passed by week's end, but comments from other U.S. lawmakers left it difficult to predict what kind of legislation might ultimately win passage.
We're reporting live this week from Cancun, where the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are meeting in a trilateral summit. And despite the contentious debate raging in the U.S. Senate over illegal immigration and the guest-worker program, this summit has a remarkably modest agenda.
In the past 10 years, new Mexican beach resorts have attracted a flood of American expatriates to retirement and second home communities.
Ministers from 149 states have saved long-running global trade talks from collapse with an interim deal to end farm export subsidies by 2013 and open up markets in wealthier countries to the world's poorest nations.
Tourism officials in the hurricane-battered Mexican state of Quintana Roo hope to have 80 percent of the accommodations and amenities in the affected Caribbean coast resorts fully operational by February.
Delegates and demonstrators descended on Hong Kong Tuesday as economic leaders convened to try and forge a global trade pact.
Trade officials from nearly 150 nations are in Hong Kong this week to forge a global trade pact, but an air of uncertainty hangs over the latest meeting of the World Trade Organization.
CNN.com, in conjunction with "American Morning," asked survivors of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma to share their stories of thanks for the kind things people have done for them. Here are a few of their many responses, some of which have been edited:
Simple tasks like buying gas, cooking food and even turning on the lights got a little easier Friday, with power restored to nearly half the homes and businesses that lost it during Hurricane Wilma.
Gov. Jeb Bush told Floridians on Thursday there is no gasoline shortage, only a temporary distribution problem caused by power outages throughout the southeastern part of the state.
Mexican authorities were still assessing the damage from Hurricane Wilma as they worked to get aid to the storm-ravaged Yucatan Peninsula, but the country's tourism minister said the region stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
Many Floridians could be without electricity for weeks, authorities said Tuesday, a day after Hurricane Wilma plowed across the peninsula.
Hurricane Wilma spent much of the weekend pounding Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with high winds and heavy surf. More than 35,000 people, mostly tourists, holed up in hotels and shelters to ride out the storm.
Residents of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula were cleaning up Sunday after two days of pounding by Hurricane Wilma.
Hurricane Wilma continued to pound Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Saturday night, as it edged toward the Yucatan Channel and the Gulf of Mexico en route to Florida.
Hurricane Wilma was "relentlessly pounding" Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said, packing 125 mph winds and dumping "tremendous" amounts of rain that may not let up in the popular tourist area for the next 24 hours.
Anxious residents in three nations boarded up homes and stocked up on supplies Thursday as Hurricane Wilma closed in on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and threatened to swamp Cuba and Florida this weekend.
Residents of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula cleaned up downed trees and other debris Monday after they were pelted overnight by Hurricane Emily, which has now moved into the Gulf of Mexico.
A dangerous Hurricane Emily neared the shores of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with 135 mph winds late Sunday, with forecasters predicting it would make landfall early Monday and cross into the Gulf of Mexico later in the day.
Rainbands of Hurricane Emily -- an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm with winds nearing 155 mph -- spread over Jamaica and the Cayman Islands Saturday evening as the storm's eye passed southwest of Jamaica and headed toward Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
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A deal to rescue world trade talks has received a cautious welcome from major trading nations.
Mary-Ellis Bunim, credited with creating numerous reality TV hits, including MTV's "The Real World," is dead.
Is the globalization agenda in trouble? Progress has been halting, and the recent World Trade Organization talks in Cancun, Mexico, collapsed in chaos. Hoping for a rebound, many of the same delega...
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I'm not sure when it first dawned on me. It may have been the day last winter when I noticed the slogan on a CNBC billboard: "You snooze, you lose."
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Expirations expiring. Following the lead of Northwest Airlines, Delta and United are extending their deadlines for expiring miles. Delta miles due to expire at the end of 1998 will now be good thro...
Good morning, Fritz, Mr. Blatt, and members of the compensation committee. Or should I say, good afternoon. Yes. It's after noon already. Well, then. Good afternoon.
With more than 100,000 berths to be filled in 1994, cruise lines are offering discounts of up to 30% to vacationers who book early. "Demand is strong," reports Larry Fishkin of the Cruise Line, a M...
Since the 1970s the videotape and electronics industry has been trying to persuade Americans to throw out their movie cameras and buy VHS camcorders to preserve family histories. Videotape is cheap...
It seems there are more people selling the blues these days than singing them. According to the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, the number of U.S. blues clubs has grown 52% since 1990, to 1,360. Th...
Knowing the local crime scene can help you avoid trouble. Our survey of security specialists and municipal police agencies turned up this up-to-date advisory: CANCUN, MEXICO. Street theft is common...
Tour packages may be your low-priced ticket to an ever more sophisticated and shrinking world. The old image of regiments of retirees marching through a dozen European capitals in as many days has ...
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