Crisis, what crisis?

Ireland’s tax status became a talking point at the G8 as world powers moved to clamp down on corporate tax evasion, Enda Kenny has admitted.

As Ireland said farewell to the Obamas, a Co Limerick town was yesterday making final preparations to welcome the Kennedy clan.

An explosive device found near the G8 summit venue was a remnant of the Second World War, British Prime Minister David Cameron revealed today.

The Taoiseach has had to defend Ireland's tax policy at the G8 summit in Fermanagh.

Leaders of the G8 nations meeting in the North today signed up today to a declaration designed to tackle tax evasion and promote free trade around the world.

The G8 summit has a smart-casual dress code, George Osborne revealed today after eyebrows were raised at the British Prime Minister greeting world leaders in his rolled-up shirtsleeves.

David Cameron is today hoping for a show of unity over Syria from the world’s most powerful nations after a late-night showdown at the G8 summit in the North.

After years of tentative steps, the EU and US at the G8 in Fermanagh finally officially launched the start of talks on what is expected to be the biggest free trade agreement in the world.

She’s married to the most powerful man in the world and is used to eating haute cuisine with heads of state.

To Sasha Obama it looked like the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft.

Schools, youth groups, and clubs came from all over Ireland on invitation from the US embassy to join Michelle Obama and her daughters for a VIP showing of Riverdance.

FIRST lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama touched down in Dublin yesterday for an official visit to the Republic with her daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 12.

It’s not everyday you nearly upstage the most powerful man in the world.

Documents leaked by US former spy Edward Snowden appear to show that Britain spied on foreign delegates at the 2009 London G20 meetings, a newspaper has reported.

US President Barack Obama sparred with Russia’s Vladimir Putin over how to end the war in Syria during an icy encounter at a G8 summit where divisions over the conflict eclipsed the rest of the agenda.

If Barack Obama was in search of craic, Enniskillen was probably the wrong place to find it.

Ireland’s generous corporate tax regime has not come under attack at the G8, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted.

How some people are glad the summit is in town, for very different reasons.

Motorists across the North are being warned of road restrictions as security arrangements are in place ahead of tomorrow's G8 Summit.

Final preparations are underway for the 39th G8 summit, which takes place in Co Fermanagh tomorrow.

An anti-G8 rally in Belfast has passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented security operation.

Michelle Obama and her daughters Malia and Sasha will explore her Irish heritage during a visit to Trinity College in Dublin on Monday.

A ring of steel has been erected across both sides of the border as the world’s leaders descend on Fermanagh for the G8 summit on Monday.

Bono has paid tribute to stars including Will.i.am, Ed Sheeran and Mumford And Sons, who have recorded new versions of celebrated protest songs to highlight issues of global poverty.

New laws are to be introduced to allow the Justice Minister order mobile phone companies to shut down networks to prevent terrorist attacks.

Anti-capitalist militants could align themselves with dissident republicans to disrupt this summer’s G8 conference, one of the North’s top police officers warned today.

World leaders, wrapping up the G8 summit in America, have promised to keep Greece in the eurozone.

Three men arrested when police raided a Chicago apartment ahead of the Nato summit had been planning to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters, prosecutors said tonight.

British Prime Minister David Cameron today signalled that world leaders were ready to take action to tackle soaring oil prices.

David Cameron will today join other world leaders in talks set to be dominated by the deepening crisis over the eurozone.

Police have detained around 100 people protesting against the Group of Eight summit in a Normandy resort.

David Cameron will today defend his decision to slash Government spending as he meets US President Barack Obama for one-on-one talks on the fringe of the G8 summit in Canada.

As world leaders gathered to deal with the aftermath of the global financial crisis, US President Barack Obama talked about a congressional compromise on overhauling the US banking system and called for an international effort to prevent future economic meltdowns.

Security in Canada is tight as world leaders begin gathering ahead of the G8 and G20 summits.

Leaders of the G8 group of rich industrialised nations are expected to promise €15bn (€10bn) today to boost food security in the world’s poorest countries.

Leaders of the world’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide today agreed to seek measures to limit global warming to 2C, but failed to seal a deal on reductions in greenhouse gases.

Organisers today denied a claim that the current G8 president Silvio Berlusconi had arranged for secret eavesdropping on the summit discussions.

US first lady Michelle Obama and Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, led other G8 leaders' spouses in a tour of the centre of L’Aquila, the earthquake-devastated Italian city hosting the G8 today.

Group of Eight leaders tonight condemned “in the strongest terms” North Korea’s nuclear test and ballistic missile launches.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said today he intends to move this summer's G8 summit from Sardinia to the earthquake-devastated city of L'Aquila.

The world’s top industrialised nations face pressing financial and environmental troubles at their annual summit tomorrow, confronted with demands they reinvigorate the stumbling world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks, and make good on pledges to battle poverty and hunger.

Climate change, soaring oil prices and possible steps against Zimbabwe were high on the agenda as leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers gathered in Japan for their annual summit.

The G8 leaders pledged today to lift Africa out of poverty and proposed a $60bn plan to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.