The Mexican Foreign Ministry strongly condemned on Tuesday a series of suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan that killed more than 25 people in the past few days.

Swine flu crossed new borders Tuesday with the first confirmed cases in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region , while the number of U.S. cases jumped to 68 and Mexico ordered restaurants to only serve takeout as a way to limit large public gatherings.Meanwhile, world health officials in Geneva were concerned that the virus appears to be establishing itself in communities and be able to produce larger outbreaks outside Mexico, possibly causing a flu pandemic.

India on Sunday went on an alert after a swine flu outbreak, that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and sickened more than 1,300others, appeared to be spreading to countries like the US and New Zealand.The health ministry has called an emergency preparedness meeting of experts from National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Indian Council of Medical Research on Monday morning to chalk out preliminary containment measures if the virus springs up in Asian countries.

Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, blamed for thousands of deaths in a drug war, has made it onto the Forbes Magazine list of the world's richest people with an estimated $1 billion fortune.Guzman, who is just 5 feet tall (1.55 metres), escaped from prison in 2001 to set off a wave of killings across Mexico in an attempt to dominate the country's highly lucrative drug trade into the United States.