Mexico cleric quizzed over abuse
By David Willis
BBC News, California 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6937944.stm
Published: 2007/08/08 22:19:03 GMT
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Mexico's leading Roman Catholic cleric has been questioned by American lawyers in connection with an ongoing child abuse inquiry.

Cardinal Norberto Rivera is being investigated for allegedly protecting a Catholic priest who abused a Mexican altar boy.

Cardinal Rivera was once seen as a possible candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II.

His diocese is one of the largest in the world.

The cardinal is accused of sending a priest named Nicolas Aguilar to Los Angeles knowing that Aguilar had raped a former altar boy in Mexico.

Fish can fight malaria mosquitoes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/6937270.stm
Published: 2007/08/08 23:03:53 GMT
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Kenyan researchers have hailed a humble fish as the latest weapon in the battle to curb the spread of malaria.

Nile tilapia, a fish more usually seen on Kenyan dinner tables, was introduced to several abandoned fishponds in the west of the country.

By consuming mosquito larvae it managed to reduce numbers of two of the main malarial mosquitoes by more than 94%.

The BMC Public Health study noted the fish could prove critical as mosquitoes are becoming resistant to pesticides.

Nile tilapia's taste for mosquitoes has been known since 1917 but this is the first time field data has been published detailing their use in mosquito control, the researchers from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology said. -End -

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