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Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Marks & Spencer CEO Marc Bolland, George Osborne, Henry Kissinger, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, historian Niall Ferguson, Kenneth Clarke, incoming Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, and Peter Mandelson

Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group

A meeting of global power brokers in a Hertfordshire hotel is exciting conspiracy theorists, but what are they really about?

Early summit date set for US and China

China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than expected, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations troubled by issues from cyber-spying to North Korea.

Tinker, tailor ... A photograph released by the FSB purporting to show Fogle’s diplomatic card

Britain will use G8 to aid dementia research

David Cameron plans to use Britain’s presidency of the G8 leading industrialised nations to spearhead a new international drive to boost dementia research.

Insects such as these fried grasshoppers are considered a delicacy in some countries

UN has a new nutritional, sustainable diet for a hungry world: insects

The solution to world poverty may have been under our noses all along. The United Nations has issued official advice suggesting that Earth’s inhabitants eat insects to help combat food-insecurity and reduce pollution worldwide.

The martyrdom of St Bono

A new biography denounces the U2 singer's anti-poverty campaigning, and his personal tax arrangements. But his starry chums – such as Bill Clinton – are fighting back

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron arrive to address the media after their meeting in Sochi

'History of Syria being written in blood of its people' says David Cameron after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin

But talks appeared to provide little concrete progress in search for solution to the crisis

Syria must become a 'resistance nation like Hezbollah' says President Bashar al-Assad

Syria ‘is ready’ to let in UN chemical experts

Deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad, indicates that weapons inspectors would be allowed into the country to perform tests

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed that he would not tolerate drone attacks on Pakistani soil

Pakistani court declares US drone strikes in the country's tribal belt illegal

Judges say the strikes must be declared a war crime as they kill innocent people

David Cameron: Proof grows that President Assad used sarin in Syria's civil war

The deadly nerve agent sarin does appear to have been used by Bashar Assad’s regime during Syria’s two-year civil war according to a “growing body of limited but persuasive information”, David Cameron has told MPs.

John Kerry at St Basil’s cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square yesterday

Russia and US agree to hold Syrian peace conference

Regime and rebels will be invited to attend after John Kerry strikes deal with Sergei Lavrov in Moscow

Queen to miss Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka due to long-haul travel review - and will send Prince Charles instead

Prince of Wales will represent the UK as Palace dismisses suggestion that move is related to political situation in country

Millions of Syrian refugees face food rationing and cutbacks

Exclusive: Syrian aid in crisis as Gulf states renege on promises

Food rationing for refugees planned as $650m pledged to UN remains undelivered

Haloumi is a Cypriot delicacy – and a recipe for conflict

Britain wades in as Cyprus is threatened by a cheese war

Fight to protect haloumi could deepen the enmity on this divided island

A malnourished Somali baby at the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu. Almost 260,000 Somali people, half of them children, died of dire hunger from 2010 to 2012, greatly more than was feared at the time

Somalia: UN’s late declaration of famine in 2011 cost lives

The United Nations has admitted that a delay in declaring a famine in Somalia in 2011 cost additional lives, after a new report revealed that more than a quarter of a million people died, half of them young children.

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