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Fallout from the G8 summit
THE GROUP of Eight major industrialised economies, meeting at their summit in the Italian town of L’Aquila, are no longer as dominant as before. But they continue to have an influential role in setting and brokering international agendas even as they seek to manage a transition towards a more globally representative system of leadership.
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Members of the Australian troupe The Pitts, Gwyn Bjaaland (top) with Bronte Webster and Gareth Bjaaland at the start of the Temple Bar Circus Festivall, Dublin, July 9th. Photo:Cyril Byrne
The sun is reflected in Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's badge as he makes his way to a round table session during the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy July 9th. Photo:Sergei Karpukhin /REUTERS
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives on the platform for a family photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy July 9th. Photo:Eric Fefferberg /REUTERS
Children play at a flood canal construction site in Jakarta July 9th. Photo:Beawiharta /REUTERS
Striking workers demonstrate outside Cape Town's Green Point 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup stadium July 9th. Photo:Mike Hutchings /REUTERS
A vendor holds bundles of rupiah banknotes to offer to passers-by who need small change in Jakarta July 9th. Photo:Crack Palinggi /REUTERS
A visitor walks past Japanese artist Mizna Wada's interpretation of Mickey Mouse during the "Bloc Mickey at Times Square" art exhibition in Hong Kong July 9th. Photo:Aaron Tam /REUTERS
Relatives mourn after hearing about the death of a family member who had consumed bootleg liquor on Tuesday, at a hospital compound in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 9th. Photo:Amit Dave /REUTERS
People fill their containers with drinking water from a tanker at the coastal region of Chellanam, 30 km (19 miles) from the southern Indian city of Kochi, July 9th. Photo:Sivaram V /REUTERS
Activists of charity organization Oxfam, wearing masks of the G8 heads of state, pose as they perform in front of Saint Giovanni in Laterano Basilica in Rome July 9th. Photo:Max Rossi /REUTERS
A pitbull seized during a raid on an address in Kennington, south London, as part of operation Navara, targeting dangerous dogs, July 9th. Photo:Dominic Lipinski/PA
Uighur people walk past a window of a store which was damaged during the recent ethnic clashes in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region on July 9th. Photo:Guang Niu/Getty Images
Bosnian women react as buses with coffins of 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre pass Sarajevo on their way to a joint burial July 9th. Photo:Danilo Krstanovic /REUTERS
Workers appointed by the Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) demolish a slum area in Dhaka July 9th. Photo:Andrew Biraj /REUTERS
A bird sits on a barbed wire fence of Combat Operation Outpost (COP) Conlon in the mountains of Wardak Province in Afghanistan predawn July 9th. Photo:Shamil Zhumatov /REUTERS
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