President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin said after talks on Monday that they will hold a US-Russia summit in Moscow in September. After talks at a meeting of the world's top industrial nations, they said the summit will take place September 3-4, ahead of a G20 summit in St Petersburg on September 5-6. as/gj/gd

Russia and the United States both want to stop the violence in Syria and have agreed to push all parties in the conflict to hold peace talks in Geneva, President Vladimir Putin said Monday. Speaking after bilateral talks with US President Barack Obama at the G8 summit, Putin said: "Of course our opinions do not converge, but all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria. "And to solve the situation peacefully including by bringing the parties to the negotiating table in Geneva. "We agreed to push the parties to the negotiating table."

US President Barack Obama arrived in Northern Ireland on Monday for the first day of the G8 summit and potentially vexatious talks on Syria with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Obama's Air Force One jet landed at Belfast International Airport outside the capital shortly after 8:35am (0735 GMT). He is due to give a speech in the city centre before meeting President Putin for talks. Obama disembarked with his wife Michelle and their two daughters, transferring to a helicopter to fly to the smaller Belfast City Airport near the city centre.

LONDON (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin's opponents often brand him a "thief" at street protests. Now the Kremlin is dismissing an American football team owner's account of how the Russian president ended up with his diamond-encrusted Super Bowl ring when they met eight years ago. According to the New York Post, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft told the audience at a recent awards ceremony that he had intended only to show Putin the ring, worth more than $25,000, but that Putin had pocketed it.