http://www.euronews. net - A banner called the "Olympic Dragon", consisting of the 205 national flags of the countries taking part in the Beijing Olympic Games, is unfurled across the 13,112 metres of the Great Wall.
Raised voices and a royal rebuke marked the end of the Ibero-American summit in Chile, with Spain's King Juan Carlos telling Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to "shut up."
The monarch lashed out as Chavez tried to interrupt a speech by Spain's prime minister.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was criticizing Chavez for calling former Spanish premier Jose Maria Aznar a fascist.
The leader of Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, is an often-outspoken critic of the West. He has in the past been accused of backing terrorism and seeking to develop nuclear weapons. However, efforts in recent years to normalise Libya's relations with the West have won praise from some world leaders, such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy. EuroNews caught up with him at the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon.
The torch relay leg of Olympic judo medallist David Douillet ended in chaos, as his flame was extinguished by Chinese organisers before passing it to Teddy Riner, the French judo champion. Then both athletes were abandoned on the podium.
The voyage to France of Tenzin Gyatso, better known as the Dalai Lama, has drawn plenty of comment, good and bad. Loved or loathed, at 73, the Nobel Peace Prize winner likes to present himself as a simple Buddhist monk. But he has become a global celebrity. Before heading back to India, his home in exile for 50 years, the Dalai Lama spoke to euronews, and explained some of his views on life.
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