As it moves beyond the protective arm of the harbour wall, the cool breeze of very early morning picks up.

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He said he looked over to see Congresswoman Giffords leaning against a wall, and a staffer had placed an arm around her.

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On a more painful note, John Rhys-Davies has been speaking about how he suffered a broken arm when a 12-foot wall fell on him during filming in Croatia.

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But they hit back with Tony Stevenson's free-kick ripping through a poorly assembled defensive wall and James McArthur nudged them ahead with an arm.

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Another used what little was left of his right arm to race up a rock-climbing wall.

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They met Wall Street's expectations and were defined by weakness in its financial arm, which has been hit by problems globally and in the credit markets.

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Instead, Wall Street was anxious to hear what the Federal Reserve's monetary policy arm had to say about the health of the U.S. economy, and in its statement the FOMC describes a landscape that was improving, but still mixed.

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