iraq. the secular alliance of former iraqi prime minister ayad allawi in the brown suit here won a narrow victory taking 91 seats in the 325-member parliament. he edged ahead of prime minister nuri al malaki's party by just two seats. two parties dominated by shiites and kurds took the rest. allawi says he is open to direct talks with the other groups, but al malaki is talking about appealing those results. amid the expanding sex abuse scandal against the roman catholic church, the vatican is on the defensive. it's denying reports that when the pope was still a cardinal and the archbishop in munich germany, he allowed a priest undergoing treatment for pedophilia back on to the job. here is cnn's fred pleitgen. >> the vatican said these reports have no new information