1. European Union:: Political centers are Brussels and Luxembourg and Strasbourg.Member states are 27,

Leaders:: European Council:: Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission:: José Manuel Barroso,  European Parliament::Jerzy Buzek (Building in Strasbourg, France), Council of the European Union:: Donald Tusk (Poland):

Member states of EU::Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Currency of EU:: Euro

2. The Group of Eight (G8, and formerly the G6 or Group of Six) is a forum, created by France in 1975, for the governments of six major economies: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1976, Canada joined the group, in 1997, the group added Russia, thus becoming the G8.

37th meeting of G8 members held at Deauville, France , Next is to be held at Chicago, USA in 2012.

3. The Group of Twenty ( G20) is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 major economies: 19 countries plus the European Union, which is represented by the President of the European Council and by the European Central Bank. The current chair of G20 is France.

6th Summit of G20 is to be held at Cannes, France in December 2011, whereas 7th summit is to be held in Mexico.

1. Uruguay won Copa America cup, beaten Paraguay by 3-0. Diego Forlan scored 2 Goals.

2. Japan won Women Football world’s cup: defeating US in penalty shoot out.

3. Wimbeldon 2011: Men’s Final:Novak Djokovic (Srbia) beat rafeal nadal (Spain), Women Final: Petra Kvitova (Czeck republic) beaten Maria Sharapova, Men’s Doubles: Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan beaten Horia Tecau and Robert Lindstedt.Women Doubles: Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik beaten sabine Lisicki and Samanatha Stosur, Mixed Doubles: Iveta Benesove and Jurgen Melzer beaten Mahesh Bupathi and Elena Bosnina.

4. Novak Djokovic is Number One Tennis player now, followed by Rafeal nadal.

5. Darren Clark Bags British open Golf Championship.

6. PV Sindhu: Won Indonesian International Challenge Badminton Championship beating top seeded Fransiska Ratnasari.The Hyderabad lad also won Maldives Open recently.

7. National Billiards Championship 2011:: Uma Devi Beaten Meenal Thakur to won the title.

8. AICF (All India Chess federation) Chief is now JCD Prabhakar.

9. AAI International Chess Championship in New Delhi:: Won by Fabiano Caruana.

10. British Grand Prix::  Won by Farnando Alonso (Spain), held in Silverstone, Drives Ferrari.

11. German Grand Prix:: Won by Lewis Hamilton:: He’s from Britain and drives Mc Laren.

12. Tour De France:: Caden Evans, first Austrlaian to won coveted title.

13. World Youth Athletics Championship 2011:: US tors the medal table, the games held at LIlle, France.

14. Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko:: Beat Britain’s David Haye to clinch WBA Heavyweight Title in Hamburg.

15. 14th FINA World Championship in Shengai::American Ryan Lochte continued eclipsing Team-Mate Micheal Phelps.