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A young man smokes a joint in front of the  Senate in Mexico City. Photograph: Claudio Cruz/AFP via Getty Images

Lawmakers in Mexico have approved a Bill to legalise recreational marijuana, a milestone for the country, which is in the throes of a drug war and cou(...)

A woman wearing a face mask walks past a store at Parque Delta shopping centre in Mexico City on February 9th. Photograph: Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images

First it was plastic shopping bags. Then straws and cups. Now the latest victims to fall under Mexico City’s anti-plastics drive are tampons – and the(...)

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks, who took the crown from Muhammad Ali in 1978 before losing a rematch, died last week aged 67. Photograph: Getty Images)

When Leon Spinks was away fighting in the Pan American Games in Mexico City, he and his then wife Nova had a couple of heated arguments on the phone. (...)

Studies show that urban air pollution is especially harmful, possibly due to metal nanoparticles. The highest concentrations waft along our busiest roads, especially where cars are braking and accelerating. Photograph: Getty Images

In a playground in Manchester, next to a busy road, Dr Barbara Maher captures air samples to bring back to her lab at Lancaster University. In a thimb(...)

Demonstrators celebrate with green headscarves – the symbol of abortion rights activists – outside the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty

The Senate in Argentina will on Tuesday debate a Bill that, if it passes into law, would make the country by far the largest in Latin America to legal(...)

 Diego Maradona confronted by a posse of Belgium defenders during the 1982 Wold Cup in Spain. File photograph: Allsport

With the death this week of Diego Armando Maradona from a heart attack the most extraordinary Argentine life of them all has come to a close. Buenos (...)

Residents transport their belongings during flooding on Sunday in Coban, Guatemala. Photograph:  Getty Images

Tropical Storm Eta unleashed torrential rain on South Florida on Monday after making landfall in the Keys, flooding roads and residential neighbourhoo(...)

This year’s Halloween costume: the coronavirus itself. Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP

Image of the week: Corona-costume Every year a select group of Halloween costumes goes viral, but this year the “in” choice is an actual virus. Yes, (...)

Luchita Hurtado. Public collections across the world, including the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the British Museum in London, now feature her work. Photograph: Charley Gallay/Getty Images

Luchita Hurtado Born: November 28th, 1920 Died: August 13th, 2020 Recent years have seen a number of female artists rise to international prominenc(...)

Sam Houston in The Battle of San Jacinto (detail) by the Belfast-born artist Henry Arthur McArdle

As our cargo ship was moving slowly along the canal from Galveston to Houston, Texas, we could see far ahead an immensely high obelisk. When we got ne(...)

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