As the Alpha Males bathed in each others’ glow, their fellow attendees of the Davos summit experienced a palpable decrease in testosterone levels.

Bush’s smile froze as Putin translated the conversation of the two gentlemen behind them, which featured the words ‘basement’, ‘cowboy’ and ‘broom handle’.

A funeral is a time for quiet introspection, a time to reflect on mortality, a time to remind your protege that his time in the presidency will one day end.

Physicists claim that there are an infinite number of universes, where an infinite number of scenarios are acted out. Unfortunately for Piotr, in every single one of them he ends up gutted within the hour.

With a suggestive smile and warm handclasp, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh manages to pull off the unthinkable and make his counterpart Vladimir Putin look uncomfortable.

Sadly there is no diplomatic protocol to cover when a visiting leader uses a book of condolences to write a 2,000-word defence of Stalin’s purges.

‘You’re right, my mistake. Russia has never occupied Holland. To date.’

A playful moment as Putin has the translation of his speech into Hungarian replaced with the sound of a woman and her five children screaming.

Dolphins are reputed to be psychic, and the one on the right has just had a premonition of being skinned and turned into a monogrammed conference folder.

2008, Putin shares some frank views on the future structure of power with the the president who just appointed him as prime minister.