The circle with a point in the middle is an important freemason and illuminati symbol representing fertility. The point symbolizes the male principle impregnating the female, symbolized by the circle. Here it can be found just before the name of the Portuguese version of "The Independent".

St Peter's square with obelisk. In the middle of the Vatican's St Peter's square an obelisk has been placed. Seen from above the square represents a dot in a circle, thus doubling the fertility symbolism while the segmented circle also refers to the zodiac. Never mind that astrology is outlawed by the Catholic church... The obelisk was originally brought to Rome by Caligula in the 1st century AD, but it was Pope Sixtus V who had it resurrected in this particularly symbolic way in the 16th century.

Major Masonic symbol. The square represents the male impregnating the female, which is represented by the square. The G stands for "the big architect".