Also unusually, Merkel's husband, Joachim Sauer, will be present at the gathering.
Family members met local elders and other notables on Tuesday in Qunu but did not discuss funeral arrangements, according to Bantu Holomisa, a politician who was present at the gathering.
Hillary Clinton, according to her recently-released schedule for the day, was present at the gathering.
No Syrians were present at the gathering, and questions lingered about who would be considered among the country's moderate opposition.
For the first time, representatives from five different faiths were present at the gathering, and the discussions were centred around the topic of inter-religious dialogue.
The Boggs Center was present at that gathering, as were members of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, Hood Research, the Building Movement Project and Occupy Detroit.
But, an Oxford-educated Englishman who is present at every social gathering, lives in a small dilapidated, wooden hut on his own and whose aim is explicitly to learn and study their language is an unprecedented oddity whom they cannot easily compartmentalise.
In honour of the Queen's visit, secretaries of state conducted a ministerial whip-round and bought her a gift, to be presented at the gathering in Downing Street.
Twenty papers were presented at this highly interactive gathering, which was attended by 50 researchers and practitioners from ABB, Boeing, Fiat, Ford, Lockheed-Martin, Saab, UDM, University of Texas, Visteon, and VTT Building Technologies.
It's perhaps unlikely that Mr. Ryan's father, a lawyer in Janesville, Wisc., was present at a political gathering in 1968 when the Black Panthers co-founder Bobby Seale, urging his followers to smash "the American Empire," proclaimed: Everyone falls into two categories.
However, it also emerges that Mr Farook was employed as an environmental health specialist with the county health department, that he had been present at the Christmas gathering yesterday morning, and that he left shortly before the shooting after getting into an argument with one or more of his fellow attendees.
