G-8 is not enough: Calls for larger, recast group (AP)

Activists wearing masks of the G8 (Group of Eight) leaders, from left, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, posing  to be pregnant, at yoga class  during a protest in Rome, against the G8 summit held in L'Aquila , Friday, July 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP – For all the smiles and upbeat talk, the just-ended Group of Eight summit showed how unwieldy the forum has become, run by Cold War-vintage powers while relegating the world’s fastest growing economies — China, India and Brazil — to observers.

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