* Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions by Christopher M. Moreman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

This graph shows the proportion of world population in extreme poverty 1981 – 2008 according to the World Bank.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, and on 6 June 2010 in Soccer Aid 2010, playing for the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrities and ex pros.

Since 21 April 2008, the overnight bulletins, while produced by the BBC News Channel, have usually been broadcast from the studios of BBC World News.

The channel swapped studios with sister channel BBC World, moving to studio N8 within the newsroom, where it remained until 2008.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

* Mobile Edition of the CIA World Factbook, last updated 10 June 2008

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 ( 2008 )

As of 2008, Comoros and Mauritania are considered by US-based organization Freedom House as the only real “ electoral democracies ” of the Arab World.

Coldcut also collaborated with video mashup artist TV Sheriff and NomIg., to produce two audiovisual pieces " World of Evil " ( 2004 ) and " Revolution ' 08 " ( 2008 ), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of the respective years.

" Dungeons & Dragons In a Digital World ", Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2008.

Recent popularity has been increased with the Irish Wolfhound's success in the Rugby League World Cup which was held in Australia in 2008.

World map indicating Education Index ( according to 2007 / 2008 Human Development Report )

# 2008 Barcelona: Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith, Ramon Ferrer i Cancho " The Evolution of Language ( EVOLANG 7 )", World Scientific, ISBN 981-277-611-7.

Despite its success, Enniskillen was not chosen as a World Cup Stop for 2008.

The Serbian actor Sasha Pilipovic presents his cabaret at the World Esperanto Congress, Rotterdam 2008

* The Men's World Floorball Championships take place every December ( since 2008 ) in every even year.

* The Women's under-19 World Floorball Championships take place every May ( since 2008 ) in every even year.

The first ever IFF-sanctioned wheelchair floorball matches were played between the men's teams of the Czech Republic and Sweden, during the 2008 Men's World Floorball Championships in Prague, Czech Republic.

* 2008 World Cup: Greg Minnaar.

* 2008 World Cup: Tracey Mosely.

In 2006 and in 2008, the World Bank named Georgia the top reformer in the world.

The World Health Organisation estimated that Malaria killed almost one million people in 2008.

Demographics of Botswana, Data of Food and Agriculture Organisation | FAO, year 2008 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

13th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice ( SBSTTA-13 ) held from 18 to 22 February 2008 in the Food and Agriculture Organization at Rome, Italy.

However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.

Food prices rose 4 % in the United States in 2007, the highest increase since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again in 2008.

Irradiation and the Death of Food, Food & Water Watch Press, Washington, DC, 2008.

The use of antibiotics and hormones in cattle and birds, artificial food additives like artificial colors / flavors, artificial sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup and aspartame, artificial preservatives, etc., prompted " propaganda " films like Super Size Me ( 2004 ), King Corn ( 2007 ), Food, Inc. ( 2008 ), Forks Over Knives ( 2011 ), and others to promote food awareness, organic farming and eating local organic food, reducing and eliminating pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and synthetic fertilizers, and adopting a vegan and / or raw food diet.

Crow also stated that $ 1 of each ticket purchased for her 2008 tour would be donated to the United Nations World Food Programme.

In response to the 2007 – 2008 world food price crisis, the IBRD initiated a Global Food Crisis Response Program which provided food assistance to 40 million people across 44 countries.

Retrieved April 20, 2008, from Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations: http :// www. fao. org / fishery / geartype / 249

According to the India State Hunger Index ( 2008 ) compiled by the International Food Policy Research Institute, the malnutrition situation in Madhya Pradesh was " extremely alarming ", receiving a severity rating between Ethiopia and Chad.

In 2008 the European Food Safety Authority concluded that " a cause and effect relationship has not been established between the consumption of Femarelle and increased BMD, increased bone formation, or decreased risk of osteoporosis or other bone disorders in post-menopausal women.

On January 31, 2008, the New Zealand Crop and Food institute created a strain of " no tears " onions by using gene-silencing biotechnology to prevent synthesis by the onions of the lachrymatory factor synthase enzyme.

In October 2008, " An updated lifecycle assessment study for disposable and reusable nappies " by the UK Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs stated that reusable diapers can cause significantly less ( up to 40 per cent ) or significantly more damage to the environment than disposable ones, depending mostly on how parents wash and dry them.

In December 2008, StemCells Inc., a biotech company in Palo Alto, received clearance from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to conduct Phase I clinical trials in PMD to assess the safety of transplanting human neural stem cells as a potential treatment for PMD.

* 2008 – Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 PL 110-234

Bell started building his forest garden in 1991 and wrote the book The Permaculture Garden in 1995, Whitefield wrote the book How to Make a Forest Garden in 2002, Jacke and Toensmeier co-authored the two volume book set Edible Forest Gardening in 2005, and Lawton presented the film Establishing a Food Forest in 2008.

However, a 2008 report by the International Food Policy Research Institute stated that there was no evidence for an increased suicide rate following the 2002 introduction of Bt cotton, but instead that the rate had been consistent since 1997.

" However, the FDA determined in December 2008 that the rTMS device was sufficiently similar to existing devices that did not require a premarket approval application and allowed the device to be marketed in accordance with Section 510 ( k ) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for " the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adult patients who have failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from one prior antidepressant medication at or above the minimal effective dose and duration in the current episode ".

In 2006 the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) began investigating several respiratory deaths, but doctors in the United Kingdom were not warned of the risks with fentanyl until September 2008.

In September 2008 a former windmill in Evere, originally built in 1841, was opened as the ' Brussels Mill and Food Museum ' ( Musée bruxellois du Moulin et de l ’ Alimentation ).

Bell started building his forest garden in 1991 and wrote the book The Permaculture Garden in 1995, Whitefield wrote the book How to Make a Forest Garden in 2002, Jacke and Toensmeier co-authored the two volume book set Edible Forest Gardening in 2005, and Lawton presented the film Establishing a Food Forest in 2008.

For instance, Nestlé ’ s three factories in Japan ( Himeji factory: Hyōgo Prefecture, Shimada factory: Shizuoka Prefecture and Kasumigaura factory: Ibaraki Prefecture ) have each obtained ISO standard certifications: ISO14001, ISO 22000 ( Food Safety Management Systems ) and OHSAS 18001 as of the end of December, 2008.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization achieved near-universal agreement in 2008 that such payments directly valuing ecosystem preservation and encouraging permaculture were the only practical way out of a food crisis.