Powerful winds blew off a building scaffold, causing a worker to plunge to his death from 13 floors. The fatality was identified as Jose Palacios, a 43-year-old Mexican migrant worker who was installing stucco at the top floor of a building under construction along Clinton Avenue.

A second worker was also blown off, but he sustained only minor injuries after he fell on a landing one floor below, while a third crew held on to a roof bulkhead.

Authorities said Monday that a 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed because he was still not ready to go back to school after the Christmas vacation.

"I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school. I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun," the boy Diego told AFP.

The last two speakers of an indigenous Mexican language have stopped talking to each other, raising fears that the language will become extinct.

The two men in their 70s from the village of Ayapan, Tabasco, in southern Mexico, are the only remaining speakers of their local version of the Zoque language.

Mexico police officials are now investigating a popular horror story-writer who allegedly chopped up his girlfriend from limb to limb and ate her.

Police said that Jose Luis Calva's first declaration after he was arrested was that he idolizes British actor Anthony Hopkins in his portrayal of the cannibalistic professor Hannibal Lecter, Brisbane Times said.

A Mexican politician who suffered a humiliating defeat in Mexico's 2006 presidential election, tried his luck in the over-55s section of the Berlin Marathon, winning the event only to be disqualified later for taking a short cut.

Mexican politician Roberto Madrazo, running oddly on a long skintight pants, complemented with a wind breaker, a hat, caught the attention of New York-based marathon photographer Victor Sailer, who alerted race organizers.