The 'Dance of the 41' changed the way that Mexico interpreted gender and sexuality forever. The number 13 is commonly considered unlucky, but in Mexico, the number 41 has been seen as taboo and avoided—at one point the Army left the number out of battalions, hotel and hospital rooms didn’t use it an

Eden Alene will represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song Set Me Free. Eden Alene’s roots stretch from her birthplace, Jerusalem, to her mother’s home country, Ethiopia.
Already a talented ballerina, Eden started vocal lessons at the age of 11 and it wasn’t too long before

Take a digital photo journey with us through this varied and colorful images of these magnificent grouts in the heartland of Mexico. Queretaro is an adjacent state to Mexico City and the grouts are only a two hour drive from the center of the Capital City.

"La Zandunga" is a traditional Mexican waltz and the unofficial anthem of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca. The people of Mexico really enjoy their traditions. The day of the dead is one of them. As long as we remember our faithful departed, they will never die.

Beneath our differences, we are all the same — or as famed Mexican printmaker and creator of the symbolic La Catrina, José Guadalupe Posada, once said, "Todos somos calaveras" — "we are all skeletons."

In the 2015 James Bond film, Spectre, the opening sequence features a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. At the time, no such parade took place in Mexico City; one year later, due to the interest in the film and the government desire to promote the pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, the federal and l

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl (Nahuatl for "artificial mountain"), is a huge complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. It is the largest archaeological site of a pyramid (temple) in the New World, as well as the largest pyramid known to exist in the world today. For ...

krainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a rousing address to his nation on Wednesday to commemorate Ukraine's Independence Day and mark six months since the start of the Russian invasion. Speaking from Kyiv's Independence Square in front of destroyed Russian tanks and mobile artillery, Zelenskiy...

Día de Muertos is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and by people of Mexican ancestry living in other places, especially the United States. It is acknowledged internationally in many other cultures. The multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and rememb

As of September 21, 2017, the death toll from the massive earthquake in Mexico is rising, but there are glimmers of hope amid the devastation: More survivors are being pulled from the rubble nearly two days after the quake struck. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports for TODAY from Mexico City.