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MEXICO

Carlos Slim inaugurates

a four-level aquarium

Mexican magnate Carlos Slim on Friday inaugurated a four-level, underground aquarium that is one of the biggest in Latin America, housing 3,000 animals belonging to 230 species.

The first visitors took an elevator underground to start the tour of the 400,000-gallon glass tank where blue, yellow, orange, and green fish swam among sharks and manta rays.

In another floor there are several types of jellyfish and a separate massive fish tank houses piranhas, crocodiles, and tiny turtles. Visitors can touch rays in a small lagoon.

Inbursa Aquarium director Alejandro Nasta says the water was brought from the Gulf of Mexico. "We decided to have the most striking [species], which is what everyone wants to see," Nasta said.

The aquarium was built in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood that is home to gleaming office towers largely built by Slim. - AP
CANADA

Boy locked 2 years in room

A malnourished 10-year-old boy was found living in squalor in a locked bedroom at an Ontario home, where authorities allege he'd been held for up to two years by his aunt and uncle, police said Friday. The boy was fed twice a day with fast food, was left alone for long stretches each day, did not attend school, and spoke limited English.

- AP
LIBYA

Protesters support general

Several thousand Libyan protesters took to the streets Friday for a second week to support a renegade general who has launched an armed campaign against Islamist militias in the restive east of the country. Supporters of Gen. Khalifa Hifter gathered in the capital, Tripoli, the eastern city of Benghazi, and elsewhere, staging protests against the Islamist-led parliament and its newly appointed prime minister, chanting: "The army of dignity is coming."

- AP

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