BBC News
British police say they are investigating the attempted murder of a former Russian banker in London this week. The banker, German Gorbuntsov, is now under
armed guard
in hospital. He's said to be in a critical but stable condition. Police say a suspected gunman was spotted running from the scene of the shooting. Gordon Corera reports.
Mr Gorbuntsov is thought to have owned a number of banks in Russia and Moldova, but he's now said to be wanted in Moldova on several charges. Russia's Kommersant newspaper is reporting a link between the shooting and an investigation in Moscow into the attempted killing of another banker. Three Chechen men were convicted of that attack, but police never established who might have hired them. Although at this stage the motive for this attack remains unclear, the concern will be that the type of violence long associated with business and organised crime in Russia might have arrived on the streets of London.
Pope Benedict has set off on a trip to Mexico and Cuba, where the Catholic Church is struggling to retain its influence. Speaking on the plane, the Pope
denounced
the drug culture, which he said was driven by the lust for money and was destroying Mexico's younger generation.
President Obama has said the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white security guard in Florida is a tragedy that should be a cause of national "soul searching". He said that if he had a son he would look like the slain youth Trayvon Martin, and the killing should be fully investigated. The man who shot him was not arrested because Florida law allows citizens to use