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Furthermore the G20 which until now gathered finance andmonetary officials from the 19 top economies and European Union has the arguably more urgent task of reviving global growthand reforming the financial sector and oversight bodies. In the heat of financial crisis, the G20 called a summitlast November in Washington and a second this April in London.More are on the cards as global recession and banks' toxicassets mean the problem is unlikely to disappear soon. "In the latest crisis the G20 has taken the lead because theUnited States sees it as a better forum for taking decisions,"said former Italian premier Massimo D'Alema. "The world haschanged and you cannot run it with outdated instruments." PRESIDENTIAL SEAL British Prime Minister Brown hopes the London summit, whichwill mark U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's first trip toEurope, will burnish his credentials as a world statesman. Kudos for his handling of the financial crisis has givenBrown a new lease of life, after doubts that he would stay inhis job.

But Berlusconi, who at 72 touts himself as being the dean ofWestern leaders, is not easily upstaged. Instead, he promotes the idea ofexpanding the G8 to include major developing-world powers. It nowroutinely meets the G5 (China, India, Brazil, South Africa andMexico) and others like Australia, Indonesia and South Korea. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini sees Italy's presidencyexpanding the G8 "in a flexible manner" to give the emergingpowers more clout, creating a "new global governance". But Italy's G8 presidency can rest assured that Brown's G20agenda is focused on the financial crisis and not straying offinto issues like climate change, leaving Rome scope to make itsmark and delete the memory of its last G8 summit in Genoa in2001, remembered for violent protests and police brutality.(Additional reporting by Giselda Vagnoni in Rome andFrancesca Landini in Milan) Bonds China Russia.

Jan 15 (Reuters) - The following are top stories fromselected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified thesestories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Stocks THE GLOBE AND MAIL: - The Harper government has been floating the idea of a taxcredit for home renovations - an idea that could deliversignificant stimulus for Canada's residential constructionindustry in the Jan 27 budget. - As the global financial crisis jeopardizes the future ofprivate pension plans, the Quebec government is taking theunprecedented move of guaranteeing benefits to pensioners andworkers of companies whose plans go bankrupt. Report on Business Section - Nortel Networks Corp NT.TO, the humbled giant ofCanadian technology, is vowing to re-emerge from creditorprotection a stronger company, but first needs to win overnervous customers and suppliers and possibly secure financialaid from skeptical governments. Financial Post Section: - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) chief executive Steve Jobs is taking aleave of absence until June, telling his employees in an e-mailthat his health issues are more complex than he thought.

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