The G8 summit in Italy

The leaders of the G8 industrialised nations gather in L'Aquila as protests are held against globalisation, poverty, hunger and climate change

  • The Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he arrives for talks at the G8 summit
    G8 gallery: Muammar Gaddafi

  • Gordon Brown meets Muammar Gaddafi on the morning of the third day of the G8 summit
    G8 gallery: Gordon Brown and Gaddafi

  • Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy take their places for a photo with junior G8 delegates, including Brazil's Mayora Tavares
    G8 gallery: Obama and Sarkozy

  • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, poses with Mayora Tavares and other leaders for a group photograph
    G8 gallery: Brazilian President Lula

  • Oxfam supporters wearing masks of G8 leaders demonstrate over health issues
    G8 gallery: Protests Continue During The G8 Summit

  • Barack Obama receives a Brazilian soccer team t-shirt from Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during a press conference as G8 leaders announced new climate change initiatives
    G8 gallery: Obama and Lula

  • Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, surveys earthquake damage on a visit to L'Aquila
    G8 gallery: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy surveys earthquake damage

  • Silvio Berlusconi speaks with Nicolas Sarkozy before the dinner at the G8 summit
    G8 gallery: Sarkozy and Berlusconi

  • Silvio Berlusconi and Barack Obama look at the Palazo del Governo in L'Aquila, which was damaged by an earthquake in April
    G8 summit update: Silvio Berlusconi and Barack Obama look at the damaged Palazo del Governo

  • Dmitry Medvedev (left) and Silvio Berlusconi visit the church of Santa Maria Di Paganica in L'Aquila
    G8 summit update: Dmitri Medvedev and Silvio Berlusconi visit L'Aquila, Italy

  • Members of the aid agencies Oxfam and Ucodep, wearing masks of G8 leaders, protest at the Laterano basilica in Rome over global hunger
    G8 summit update: Members of aid agency Oxfam and Ucodep protest

  • Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission, arrives at the main conference on the first day of the G8 summit in L'Aquila
    G8 summit update: President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso arrives

  • Leaders of the G8 group of nations attend a discussion during the summit
    G8 summit update: World leaders from the G8 group of nations attend a round-table discussion

  • The Italian equal opportunities minister, Mara Carfagna, arrives at the Capitoline hill to greet the G8 first ladies
    G8 summit update: Italian Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna at the Capitoline hill

  • Pope Benedict XVI meets (from left) Margarita Zavala, the wife of the Mexican president, Felipe Calderon; Nompumelelo Mantuli, the wife of the South African president, Jacob Zuma; Gursharan Kaur, the wife of Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India; Sarah Brown, the wife of the British prime minister, Gordon Brown; Filippa Reinfeldt, the wife of the Swedish prime minster, Fredrik Reinfeldt; Maria Margarita Barroso, the wife of Jose Manuel Barroso; Juliana Olabintan Nwanze, the wife of the International Fund for Agricultural Development president, Kanayo Nwanze; and other first ladies in Vatican City
    G8 summit update: The Pope meets the G8 first ladies

  • Silvio Berlusconi and Angela Merkel visit the village of Onna three months after it was hit by a devastating earthquake
    G8 summit: Silvio Berlusconi and Chancellor Angela Merkel visit the village of Onna

  • Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, walks past buildings destroyed in the April earthquake in L'Aquila
    G8 summit: Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper in L'Aquila

  • Barack Obama and Silvio Berlusconi approach the stage to pose for a group photo as the Japanese prime minister, Taro Aso, points the way at the G8 summit
    G8 summit: Barack Obama and Silvio Berlusconi approach the stage

  • An assistant removes place markers during the G8 leaders group photograph. Left to right: Japan's prime minister, Taro Aso; Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper; the US president, Barack Obama; France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy; and Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi
    G8 summit: An assistant removes place markers during the G8 group photograph

  • Silvio Berlusconi (right), shares a word with Nicolas Sarkozy (left) and Dmitry Medvedev prior to a group photo at the G8 summit
    G8 summit update: Silvio Berlusconi shares a word with Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev

  • Silvio Berlusconi leans in to shake hands with Barack Obama after the leaders' group photo
    G8 summit: Silvio Berlusconi leans to shake hands with US President Barack Obama

  • President Dmitry Medvedev, of Russia, arrives at L'Aquila airport for the G8 summit
    G8 summit: Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev arrives at the airport of L'Aquila

  • The prime minister, Gordon Brown, and his wife, Sarah, arrive at Rome airport on their way to the G8 summit in L'Aquila
    G8 preparations: Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah Brown arrive at Rome airport

  • The US president, Barack Obama, disembarks from Air Force One with his wife, Michelle, at Rome airport
    G8 preparations: President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama disembark from Air Force One

  • Cameras are set up at the media centre in L'Aquila on the eve of the summit
    G8 preparations: Cameras are set up at the TV compound of the G8 media centre

  • A journalist eats in the media centre canteen on the eve of the summit
    G8 preparations: A journalist at the media centre on the eve of the G8 summit in L'Aquila

  • Global Coalition Against Poverty (Italy) activists throw a child's swimming pool bearing a picture of the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, into the air in Rome
    G8 preparations: ActionAid activists throw a pool with Berlusconi's face into the air

  • A group of American tourists make their way past a police line barricading the street leading to the US embassy in Rome
    G8 preparations: A group of American tourists make their way past the police line

  • A protester holds a firework at a protest in Rome before the arrival of the G8 leaders in Italy
    G8 preparations: A protester holds a firework during a demonstration in Rome

  • Riot policemen enter Termini station in Rome after protesters invaded the tracks and platforms at the end of a demonstration against the G8 summit
    G8 preparations: Riot policemen enter Termini station after protesters invaded the tracks

  • Masked anti-G8 protesters take to the streets near Piazza Barberini in Rome
    G8 preparations: Masked anti-G8 protesters take to the streets near Piazza Barberini in Rome

  • A man remonstrates with police as they block the street leading to the US embassy at Piazza Barberini in Rome
    G8 preparations: Police block the street leading to the US Embassy in Rome

  • Protesters block the tracks at Termini railway station after a rally through the streets of Rome
    G8 preparations: Protesters block the tracks at Termini railway station in Rome, Italy

  • Riot policemen run after protesters on the tracks of Termini station during a protest against the G8 summit
    G8 preparations: Riot policemen run after protesters on the tracks of Termini station

  • A protester throws a flare towards Italian riot police during a demonstration in Rome against the G8 summit
    G8 preparations: A protester throws a flare towards Italian riot police in Rome

  • Demonstrators walk in a fountain on Piazza della Repubblica during a protest in Rome against the summit
    G8 preparations: Demonstrators walk in a fountain on Piazza della Repubblica to demonstrate
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