The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager ( d. 2008 )

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1921 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* Dulac, Liliane, Anne Paupert, Christine Reno, and Bernard Ribémont, eds., Desireuse de plus avant enquerre ... Actes du VIe colloque international sur Christine de Pizan ( Paris juillet 2006 ): Volume en hommage à James Laidlaw ( Paris, Éditions Champion, 2008 ) ( Etudes Christinienne ).

In December 2008, Bernard Madoff was arrested for running a US $ 50 billion Ponzi scheme which was thought to be a hedge fund, and several feeder hedge funds, of which the largest was Fairfield Sentry, channelled money to it.

In Week 13 of the 2008 season against the Bears, Gus Frerotte hooked up with Bernard Berrian for a 99-yard touchdown pass after a goal line stand by the Vikings defense.

In an interview with The Skinny in July 2008, Tricky mentioned that it was the first time that he had decided to let someone co-produce an album with him, the person in question being Bernard Butler, ex-Suede guitarist.

He sang " God Save the Queen ", the United Kingdom's national anthem, before the Floyd Mayweather Jr .- Ricky Hatton fight in 2007 ; he sang " Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ", the Welsh national anthem, at the fight between fellow Welshman Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins in 2008 ; and he sang " God Save the Queen " before the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight in 2009.

* Bernard Squarcini ( June 2007 – July 2008 )

The Brooke County Commissioners in 2008 are President Bernard Kazienko, Marty Bartz, and Norma Tarr.

* Bernard and Doris ( 2008 ): the Phipps ' estate used for the Doris Duke ( played by Susan Sarandon ) mansion in Newport, Rhode Island

* Obituary by Bernard Crick, The Guardian, 10 June 2008.

Malkovich lost millions to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme when it collapsed in 2008.

* On November 30, 2008, against the Chicago Bears, Vikings quarterback Gus Frerotte threw a 99-yard touchdown pass to Bernard Berrian, tying an NFL record for longest pass.

The revelations about his past were made in a book about his life, Bernard Sumner: Confusion: Joy Division, Electronic and New Order Versus the World by David Nolan, published in 2008 – on which Sumner co-operated.

Bernard Sumner – " Miracle Cure " ( vocals, 2008 )

In the 2008 Doctor Who novel Beautiful Chaos, the Doctor briefly mentions being invited to the Royal Planetary Society by " Bernard and Paula ".

In 2008, Mr Kofi Annan launched the first annual lecture, followed by Ms Sadako Ogata in 2009, by Mr. Bernard Kouchner in 2010, and by Mr. José Manuel Durão Barroso in 2011.

* Docteur Henri Conneau ( Milan, 1803-La Porta, 1877 ) Ami le Plus Fidèle, Confident le Plus Intime de l ' Empereur Napoléon III Bernard, Hervé., Biarritz 2008 ( French ).

In the Patriots ' 2008 season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs at Gillette Stadium, Brady's left knee was seriously injured midway through the first quarter on a hit by Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard ; he left the game and did not return.

Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff ; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 ( with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009 ) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo!

Bernard Cribbins appeared as a recurring character in the 2007 Christmas Special and the 2008 series of the Doctor Who television series as Wilfred Mott, a patriotic newspaper salesman who is the grandfather of the companion Donna Noble.

With the Attorney General, Baird, as sponsor Minister, deployed a budget of £ 28M to implement the recommendations of the 2006 Fraud Review and established the National Fraud Authority ( NFA ), which became an executive agency of the Law Officers Departments ( LODs ) in 2008 with Dr Bernard Herdan as its Chief Executive.

Nicknamed the " Dean of Moderators " by CNN's Bernard Shaw, Lehrer has moderated eleven presidential candidate debates, with the most recent being the presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on September 26, 2008.

* Regnault-Roger, Catherine ; Philogene, Bernard JR ( 2008 ) Past and Current Prospects for the use of Botanicals and Plant allelochemicals in Integrated Pest Management.

* Bernard Combes ( 2008 – ) for the PS

Sir Bernard Rowland Crick ( 16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008 ) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as ' politics is ethics done in public '.