Normally all business, world leaders let their hair down at the annual meeting of industrialized nations
Here’s Looking At You
Russian President Vladimir Putin and British PM Tony Blair toast each other in 2002 in Kananaskis, Canada.AFP / Getty
Fired Up
A protestor drinks a beer by a bonfire on Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland. Anti-G8 activists planned 50 bonfires along the shores of the lake as a symbol of protest against the summit of G-8 leaders in nearby Evian.Sean Gallup / Getty
Floaters
Globalization critics masquerade as the G8 leaders after shooting the film 'dropping knowledge summercamp' in Berlin, Germany, 2007.Arno Burgi / DPA / Landov
Hostess with the Mostess
Chancellor Merkel welcomes leaders to the table in Heiligendamm, Germany, 2007.Christopher Morris / VII for TIME
Party Animals
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Australian Finance Minister Wayne Swan and EU Commissioner for Economy Joaquin Almunia sip sake at a reception for G8 ministers in Osaka, Japan, 2008.Yoshikazu / AFP / Getty
In France, He’d Be Foie Gras
President Bill Clinton engages a duck in conversation, as French President Jacques Chirac looks on, outside Birmingham, Britain, 1998.Sergei Chirikov / AFP / Getty
Pals
US President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stand next to each other at the group photo at the 1991 summit in London.Diana Walker / Time Life Pictures / Getty
He Lights Up a Room
Russian President Vladimir Putin joins French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the rest of the group at the table in Germany, 2007.Christopher Morris / VII for TIME
Weeeeeeeee!
An Oxfam protestor, dressed up as a vacationing President Bush goes down the slide at a park in Sapporo, Japan, 2008.Dai Kurokawa / EPA / Corbis
Ciao, Bello
From left, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, Canadian PM Jean Chretien, European Union President Jacques Delors, British PM John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Italian President Silvio Berlusconi chat at the 1994 summit in Naples, Italy.Origlia / Sygma / Corbis
He’s No Welch
Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien dons a Washington Capitols jersey at the 1998 G-8 retreat as payment for a lost wager to President Bill Clinton, who bet Chretien that the Capitols would beat the Ottawa Senators in the NHL playoffs that year.Stephen Jaffe / AFP / Getty
Hot to Trot
President Clinton jogs at the 1994 Naples summit.Origlia / Sygma / Corbis
Garden Party
At Williamsburg in 1983, President Reagan sits with French President Francois Mitterand.Diego Goldberg / Sygma / Corbis
Splendor in the Grass
G-8 leaders walk to take their summit official photograph in Germany, 2007.Christopher Morris / VII for TIME
Table for Eight
The leaders (joined by a few aides) listen to US President Bill Clinton at the 1996 meeting in Lyon, France.Thierry Orban / Sybma / Corbis
Drinking Buddies
President George W. Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime minister Romano Prodi share a laugh while sipping aperitifs (a non-alcoholic beer for Bush) at the 2007 summit.David Hecker / AFP / Getty
Beer Run
Anti-globalization activists dash off with looted beverages after smashing into a gas station on the Swiss side of the border as the 2003 G-8 meeting convened across the lake in Evian, France.Jean-Philippe / AFP / Getty
