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

From left, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. President Barack Obama, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are seen during a group photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy on Friday, July 10, 2009.  World leaders met with leaders of African nations ahead of an expected announcement of a new food security proposal that could represent a fundamental shift in the way the West tackles world hunger. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)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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