G8, The Group of Eight, the seven top industrialized nations of the world, United States of America, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, plus Russia. This collection is also known as the G7+1.
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The hallmark of the G8 is an annual economic and political summit meeting of the heads of government with international officials, though there are numerous subsidiary meetings and policy research.
In June 2005 the G8 agreed to launch an international database on paedophiles, expected to be set up by the end of the year.
The opening day of the 2005 G8 Summit in Scotland, 7 July, 2005, was accompanied by a synchronized series of bombings in the London Underground and in a London red double-decker bus that claimed more than 50 lives and wounded hundreds more.