As for his record on AIDS, activists attack him for moving too slowly to marshal city resources against the almost-always fatal disease largely affecting gay men that began to take hold in the early 1980s.

WSJ: Ed Koch Legacy: New York City's Fortunes Improved Under His Leadership

It was the perfect opening for the Bluebirds who came out on the attack against a Wolves side who looked nervy from the start.

BBC: Cardiff 2-0 Wolves

Mr Obama made an appeal for "meaningful action" against gun crime in the US shortly after the attack on Friday.

BBC: Newtown shootings: Obama says tragedies must end