Mexico City's Iztapalapa borough will also forego celebrations out of respect for the deceased and injured in last week's gas explosion.

At least eight families living near the sinkhole have been asked to leave the immediate vicinity while authorities seek to identify the cause of the 8-meter deep crater.

The impetus for the auction was the L.A. fires' threat to his collection, which brought the filmmaker to realize that he is the guardian, not the "owner" of the artifacts.

A freight truck carrying beer, a passenger transport van and a private vehicle were involved in the crash on the Mérida–Campeche federal highway near the town of Kopomá, Yucatán.

It was the second recent arrest of an American trying to smuggle military equipment across the border, and an early test of a new bilateral agreement to crack down on weapons smuggling.