Tag: Mexico City

• Thursday, June 11th 2026 - 06:35 UTC

  Mexico City hosts the opening ceremony of the first 48-team World Cup on Thursday

  

  Mexico City will be the stage on Thursday for the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Cup, the first contested by 48 teams and the first hosted by three countries: Mexico, the United States and Canada. The event will take place at the Estadio Ciudad de México, the former Azteca, before the opening match between host Mexico and South Africa. The ceremony will begin at 11:30 a.m. central Mexico time, about 90 minutes before the start of the match, set for 1:00 p.m. (2:30 and 4:00 p.m. in Montevideo and Buenos Aires; 1:30 and 3:00 p.m. in the eastern United States; 7:30 and 9:00 p.m. in Madrid).

• Thursday, September 14th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  “Extraterrestrial” bodies displayed at Mexico's Congress

  

  Two fossilized bodies allegedly belonging to beings from outer space were set on display Wednesday at the San Lazaro Palace in Mexico City. According to carbon-14 tests, the items would be over 1,000 years old, ufologist Jaime Maussan said. The remains were displayed during a special session of Mexico's Congress.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  Gang warfare next to Mexico City leaves 13 police officers on patrol massacred

  

  Bullet casings still littered the ground on Friday in Coatepec Harinas, a troubled municipality southwest of Mexico City where 13 police officers on patrol were brutally murdered in an ambush by suspected drug gang members.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Murder of a French businessman and his colleague shock Mexico City

  

  A few hundred people marched in central Mexico City on Monday to protest the killing of a French businessman and his Mexican colleague over the weekend, the latest violent crime to inflame concerns about security in the country.

• Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 17:25 UTC

  “Day of the Dead” at Frida Kahlo's iconic home in Mexico City

  

  A traditional Day of the Dead “offering” in Frida Kahlo's iconic home in Mexico City has taken on a wider artistic homage, with an exhibition helped by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier also remembering artists who have died in past pandemics.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Fantastic prehistoric cemetery of extinct giants found at construction site of future Mexican airport

  

  The remains of dozens of the extinct mammoth giants and other prehistoric creatures skeletons have been found in Zumpango on the northern edge of Mexico City, which sits on an ancient lake bed and where a new airport was to be built.

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Mayor of Mexico City warns of a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases

  

  The mayor of Mexico City warned on Friday of a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases in the sprawling capital in the coming months, noting that hospitalizations have been on the rise in recent days.

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Women hound Mexican president following the horrific murder of Ingrid and pictures or her dismembered body

  

  Demonstrators in Mexico City, outraged by the horrific murder of a 25-year-old woman, sprayed graffiti on the presidential palace and disrupted President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's daily press conference.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Furious ladies take to the streets of Mexico City on the Day to Eliminate Violence against Women

  

  Demonstrators smashed windows, spray-painted monuments and clashed with riot police on Monday on Mexico City's main avenue to protest Mexican authorities' failure to stop a spiral of violence against women.

• Saturday, May 18th 2019 - 07:59 UTC

  Smog disaster in Mexico City, all residents “smoking” half a pack of cigarettes a day

  

  Scientists say breathing the heavily polluted air in Mexico City these days is like smoking somewhere between a quarter-and a half-pack of cigarettes a day.