Five potential flashpoints may well derail any global recovery.
Currency reserves are hoped to guard against financial shocks, while China has committed to contributing the "lion’s share".
IMF chief Christine Lagarde will be taking her European rescue talks to Russia in her first official foreign trip, before visiting China and Japan.
President Jacob Zuma says all G20 countries should help curb the negative effects of the global financial crisis on poor and developing countries.
Hundreds of anti-capitalists have poured into the French city of Nice for a march to protest corporate greed ahead of the Group of 20 summit.
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The IMF is not seeking more funds from Gulf Arab oil exporters to bolster its resources and the region faces no major danger from the eurozone crisis.
If the continent opens up he could emerge as Africa’s champion.
The G20 summit has symbolic importance because for the first time the world’s new top table has met outside countries of the G7.
Leaders of G20 nations must put the interests of the global economy ahead of their national economies, President Jacob Zuma said in Seoul on Thursday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday urged China to work closely with the G20 and introduce greater political freedoms.
Canadian police are a confusing bunch. With Toronto locked down for the G20 summit, several have been cycling around the deserted streets on bikes.
Toronto police clashed with protesters for a second straight day on Sunday, in the downtown core near the just-finished G20 summit of world leaders.
Masked protesters rioted across downtown Toronto on Saturday, setting police cars ablaze and smashing store windows in opposition to the G20 summit.
As the Group of Eight (G8) Nations meet for the 2010 summit on Friday, it will be a significant moment in their history.
Jeffrey D Sachs and Brett House highlight the problems with aid distribution.
The surge of rallies reflects an understanding that the world is changing — and politicians had better pay attention, writes Jackie Ashley.
The Met’s commanders had insisted that they would not let the capital be brought to a standstill by demonstrations around the G20 summit.
South Africa has come away from the G20 summit feeling that a fair amount has been achieved, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Friday.
Leaders should make early efforts to conclude the Doha round of global trade talks as a key part of fighting the crisis, the head of the WTO said.
World leaders gathered on Wednesday for a summit on tackling the global financial crisis but many were split on the way forward.
G20 leaders meeting in London this week will seek to agree global rules on remuneration in the banking sector, Gordon Brown said on Tuesday.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro called China’s growing economic power in the world a ”bitter drink” for the West, ahead of a G20 summit this week.
They’re printing fake money, priming the pop-up tents and putting the finishing touches on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
EU leaders will urge the G20 leading and emerging economies to double the size of the IMF’s arsenal for fighting global recession to -billion.
China wants the G20 summit to make progress against global financial turmoil, the country’s foreign minister said on Saturday.