Police in Mexico say they have captured one of the country's most wanted men, the alleged drug baron, Teodoro Garcia Simental. His gang is blamed for much of the violence in the border city of Tijuana, which escalated following his split from the powerful Arellano Felix cartel in 2008. Peter Bowes has the details.

Teodoro Garcia Simental was detained in La Paz, a fishing city on the Baja California peninsula. He is the second alleged major drug lord to be held in less than a month by President Felipe Calderon's government. More than 45,000 troops have been sent to drug hotspots to confront the cartels. The response has been more violence and an unprecedented number of killings. Teodoro Garcia is among 24 alleged drug kingpins wanted in Mexico, and the government had offered 2.1 million dollars for information leading to his arrest.

Figures from the United States central bank, the Federal Reserve, show it made a record profit of 52 billion dollars in its lending operations last year. The Fed benefited from interest payments by private banks forced to take out emergency government loans during the global financial crisis. The figures suggest that the American tax payers have so far gained rather than lost money from the banking bail-out.

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