Two killed

US REPUBLICAN presidential challenger Mitt Romney is trying to deflect questions about his record as a businessman who has kept part of his vast fortune in overseas accounts.

This comes as president Barack Obama seeks more funding for a November election that will be the most expensive, and one of the most closely contested, in American history.

The top issue among voters remains the struggling economy and 8.2% unemployment but Mr Obama has managed to distract Mr Romney’s campaign from that message through recent attacks on the challenger’s business record.

The president will be in Texas, hoping to raise at least $5 million (£3.2m) from gay, Latino and more affluent donors as Mr R o m n e y ’s campaign reaches Pennsylvania.

The Obama camp is also airing an ad taking issue with Mr Romney’s decision to release only two years of his personal tax returns.

Mr Romney has released his 2010 tax return and has said he will release his 2011 return.

He has said he will not release other returns but says his business record is his chief qualification to be president and it is the source of his vast fortune. A reckless exchange of gunfire at a crowded outdoor party in Toronto killed two young people in the city's east end.

At least 19 others, including an infant, were injured after bullets from more than one gun were sprayed into the crowd of more than 200 people.

Officers said they had one "person of interest" in custody and were looking for other suspects.

Mr Obama and his wife Michelle during the Olympic men’s exhibition basketball match between the USA and Brazil in Washington DC.