As the 2012 Olympic Games drew to a close in London on Sunday, world leaders and athletes gathered for a hunger summit at Downing Street, sponsored by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Al Jazeera reports (8/12). The "summit brought together leaders from Brazil, Kenya, Bangladesh, India and Ireland," the Associated Press notes (8/12). "This meeting ... hopes to draw the media spotlight toward the nearly one billion people worldwide who suffer from hunger and malnutrition," the Examiner writes (Lambers, 8/10). "The U.K. hopes to get commitments from other world leaders, and multinational firms to help prevent 25 million children aged under five suffering stunted growth by the time of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil," according to International Business Times TV (Salter, 8/13). The country "hopes to use its presidency of the G8 group of wealthy nations, starting next year, to build international support for action to prevent millions of deaths a year due to malnutrition," BBC News writes (8/12).