Mexico

How much can you tell about a country from its children's books? Some psychology researchers decided to find out.

While the number of journalists murdered worldwide in retaliation for their work appears to have dropped slightly from last year, killings of Mexican journalists continue to rise, reports show.

The passengers were largely tourists from cruise ships and were on an excursion to see Mayan ruins. The driver may have lost control when one of the bus tires exploded, said the local police chief.

Mexican officials say they seized a bazooka adapted to shoot drugs alongside nearly a ton of marijuana in the town of Agua Prieta on the U.S.-Mexico border.

More than a dozen tourists have told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that posts about attacks at Mexican resorts were deleted. In one case, warnings about the same resort — years apart — were pulled.

As the tequila industry surges, the early harvesting and cloning of agave are disrupting the ecosystem of some species — leading some groups to go to bat for the hardworking nighttime pollinators.

The armored catfish erodes shorelines and devastates marine plants — and its numbers have exploded. So researchers, chefs and fishermen are trying to rebrand it by promoting its flavor and nutrition.

In Wise Trees, a book by photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, you'll see a holy tree in the middle of an Indian candy shop, a communal tree in Mozambique, a tree of tragedy in Cambodia.