Cuauhtemoc Blanco and Javier Hernandez have been dropped from Mexico's roster for Wednesday's exhibition against Iceland in Charlotte, N.C., after scoring this week against North Korea. Goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, who played in Wednesday's 2-1 victory over the North Koreans, was among 18 players selected for the match ...

Hexion Specialty Chemical Inc.'s said Friday it was raising prices of its emulsion polymers in North America. Prices will increase by 7 cents per wet pound for acrylic, styrene acrylic, vinyl acrylic and other polymers used in the adhesives, textiles, nonwovens and construction markets, the company said in a release ...

Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages -- Maya and Nahuatl -- to its universal search service, a company official said Thursday. "Searches in these two pre-Columbian languages and mobile satellite-linked connections to the Internet are part of Google's growth strategy," Google's Mexico marketing technology director Miguel de Alva told AFP. "The two languages are of interest ...

Mexico's state-owned Pemex oil company said that the new oil fields it discovered two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico could yield more than two billion barrels of oil. Pemex director Juan Jose Suarez said the Ayatzil-Tekel reserves consisted of heavy crude oil, while those of Tsimin-Xux were light sweet crude. The oil fields, located in Campeche Sound ...