The most powerful individuals on the planet have convened here to reach a deal. But based on the quality of the deal that emerged, I believe that the important people in the world are elsewhere.

Maybe it would have been wise to have learned a few words of Arabic before my stay at the Makadi Palace. If I'd looked up the word for 'an adaptor' I could have prevented a doctor being hastily dispatched to my room.
And a smattering of the local dialect would have come in handy when explaining to the bell boy, who let himself in at 5am to collect my bags, that he was 11 hours early for my 4pm check-out.
Language barriers aside, it is hard not to feel thoroughly relaxed at the vast terracotta-coloured complex that has sprung up in the desert to cater for the many tourists who flock to Egypt's Red Sea coast.

The Egyptian government on Monday announced it had applied for an Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) from Icann, the internet naming co-ordinator. Tarek Mohamed Kamel, Egypt's minister of communication and information technology, told the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm el-Sheikh on 16 November that the new domain name would be '.misr' written in Arabic, which translates into English as '.egypt'.
"The internet now speaks Arabic," Kamel said in an Icann statement. "This proves that Icann is interested in the multilingual development process of the internet and we're thankful to be one of the first to apply for an Arabic IDN."