Mexico City - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Friday that he was going to the G20 financial summit in Washington with "moderate expectations," because he expects it to be just a "starting point" to tackle the global crisis.

"It would be desirable to have, towards the end of the meeting, mechanisms, working teams, with concrete tasks assigned that allow us to prepare and work in later G20 meetings," Calderon said as his goal, just before he left for the United States.

Mexico City - A journalist reporting on organized crime was shot and killed in a town on Mexico's border with the United States, adding to a climate of fear as many media outlets refuse to cover drug-related violence.

Armando Rodriguez was shot and killed Thursday by unidentified gunmen as he dropped his daughter off at school in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, the El Diario newspaper said on its website.

Rodriguez had worked more than 14 years for the paper in an increasingly fearful environment as gangland violence increases, making Mexico one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists.

Mexico City - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday named lawyer Fernando Francisco Gomez Mont as his new interior minister to succeed Juan Camilo Mourino, killed in a plane crash six days earlier.

Gomez Mont, like Calderon, belongs to the National Action Party, in which he has served in a number of posts.

Under the Mexican constitution, the interior minister is Mexico's second-highest government official after the president.

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Mexico City - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday attended the funeral of some of the victims of Tuesday's airplane crash that killed 14 people, and promised a thorough investigation into the accident.

Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino, 37, died in the crash, along with 13 others.

Calderon - a close friend of Mourino's - and his entire cabinet attended the burial ceremony in the Campo Marte military facility in Mexico City, not far from the site where the Lear Jet 45 crashed.

Mexico City - The number of dead in an airplane accident late Tuesday in Mexico City rose to 13, while 10 people were taken to hospital for treatment of their injuries, the authorities said Wednesday.

Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino - one of President Felipe Calderon's closest advisors - and four other officials were among the dead. However, Mexican authorities stressed Wednesday that they have so far found no evidence that the crash was not an accident.