Bush's World Bank pick set for tour

Robert Zoellick, US President George Bush’s choice to run the World Bank, is embarking on a government-paid global tour – hitting Africa, Europe and Latin America – as the United States seeks to mend relationships strained by the rocky tenure of the bank’s outgoing president.

“I want to leave no stone unturned in showing people I am serious,” Mr Zoellick, currently a vice chairman at Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, said today.