Mexico City - Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino and a presidential adviser on security issues died when a small plane crashed in Mexico City, media reports said.

Mourino and Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, a former deputy attorney general and a current adviser to the government of President Felipe Calderon, were returning to the capital from San Luis Potosi on the small plane that crashed Tuesday night, the Mexico City airport control tower confirmed.

The plane was carrying six people - a two-member crew and four passengers - when it crashed in a luxury office area of Mexico City.

Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said at the crash site that at least three people were killed and five were seriously injured.

Mexico City - Mexico's central bank sold 1.096 billion dollars of its foreign exchange reserves Thursday to boost the peso.

The Bank of Mexico sold 1 billion dollars as markets opened and the remainder later in the day.

The value of the dollar went as high as 14.30 pesos before the bank's intervention, although it closed at 13.79 pesos.

Mexico's central bank has sold more than 13 billion dollars since October 8, but the price of the dollar continues to rise. It was worth about 11.2 pesos on October 1.

Mexico City - The Bank of Mexico used an additional 1.5 billion dollars to prop up the Mexican peso on Thursday, following a sharp depreciation in recent days.

With the latest intervention, Mexico's central bank has sold more than 10.8 billion dollars since last week.

The dollar is now worth more than 13 pesos, while it was worth some 11.2 pesos on October 1.

Acapulco, Mexico - The future of Olympic football is still up in the air, pending a meeting between IOC President Jacques Rogge and FIFA President Joseph Blatter.

"We still have not discussed the issue with FIFA. We have not scheduled a meeting, but we will schedule one in the future," Rogge said in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in the Mexican resort of Acapulco.

The presence of players aged over 23 in the Olympic football tournament is drawing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) apart from football's ruling body FIFA, whose head Blatter is in turn one of the 115 members of the IOC.