G8 leaders group photo - decoded

No sun: this is a wonderfully Northern Irish image – the kind that makes you pine for ... the south of France. No wonder Hollande (1) looks as if he wishes he were somewhere else. The blokes at the ends: could be greenkeepers, or José Manuel Barroso (2) and Herman van Rompuy (3): the EU bureaucrats who always get invited to these things, then made to stand at the end of the line looking silly. To wave or not to wave? My guess is Obama (4) waved first, Cameron (5) and Putin (6) followed him, but Merkel (7) looked the other way. Japanese PM Shinzo Abe (8) seems to have misinterpreted smart casual. Grey trousers and deck shoes? A bit too informal.
Oh, and if you're wondering, the other two are Canadian PM Stephen Harper (9) and Italian PM Enrico Letta (10). Illustration: Yin Gang/Xinhua Press/Corbis