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Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, and actor George Clooney tour earthquake damage on the sidelines of a G8 summit, in St.

The G8 leaders and the leaders of the developing nations wait for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to arrive to a family photo during the G8 Summit.

Michelle Obama and other first spouses toured the center of L'Aquila Thursday to see the destruction wrought by an earthquake in the Italian city hosting world leaders this week for the Group of Eight summit.

G8 agreed to limit global warming to within 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Prime Minsiter Gordon Brown has hailed a "historic" agreement between the world's major industrialised nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.

Britain has won strong support from the G8 nations in its row with Iran over a detained embassy employee.

President Barack Obama joined other leaders of the industrialized world Wednesday in backing new targets for battling global warming.

Jul 08 - Leaders from the Group of Eight nations are meeting in the Italian town of L'Aquila to discuss the economic crisis and their goals on climate change.

World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit opening today in Italy will each be presented with a gift from the past and one for the future.

A A A' An Italian lawmaker in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's coalition has resigned after being filmed singing a racist chant about Naples and its residents.

Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, has broken away from the G8 summit in Italy and returned home to deal with race riots that have claimed 156 lives so far.

One question could dominate this week's gathering of the world's top economic powers in Italy: Will the United States and Europe act by themselves to cut emissions of the heat-trapping gases that are causing long-term global warming and will they be able to persuade fast-developing nations such as China and India to go along? President Barack Obama ...

Police arrested 36 activists Tuesday after clashes at a Rome demonstration against this week's Group of Eight summit in central Italy.

Italian paramilitary police officers patrol the area around the Coppito neighborhood, in L'Aquila, Italy.

Barack Obama, Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha during Fourth of July celebrations at the White House.

A glance at President Barack Obama's itinerary for his overseas trip: TUESDAY, JULY 7, IN RUSSIA _Meets with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Leaders of the Group of Eight will push for common positions on promoting democracy in Iran, combatting climate change and coordinating their exits from huge government stimulus measures - even amid a growing sense that the group's pre-eminence may be fading.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged governments on Monday to increase development aid for the poorest countries and to improve health services, saying nations have moved too slowly to meet their goals of eradicating poverty and hunger.

The leaders of France and Britain pushed Monday for ambitious targets for tackling climate change and cracking down on uncooperative tax havens, ahead of upcoming meetings with other heads of state this week and in September.

Jul 06 - G8 leaders who will meet in Italy are fiddling like the ancient Roman emperor Nero while Africa is 'burning', global development group Oxfam says.