In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

In March 2008 TfL announced that it had reached agreement to buy TCL for £ 98m.

At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.

Construction was halted in August 2008, as Gillett and Hicks had difficulty in financing the £ 300 million needed for the development.

However the fund failed to meet the required target of £ 100, 000 by the end of December 2008, having received just over £ 33, 000 in pledges, and the plan was abandoned.

In the first half of 2008, areas of the cliff above the wharf were stabilised from rock falls with netting at a cost of approximately £ 3 million.

The cost of publication was more than a third of Austen's annual household income of £ 460 ( about £ 15, 000 in 2008 currency ).

She made a profit of £ 140 ( almost £ 5, 000 in 2008 currency ) on the first edition, which sold all 750 printed copies by July 1813.

* A collection of 35 broadsheet poems of McGonagall, the majority signed by him, was bought for £ 6, 600 ( including commission ) from Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh auctionneers, on 16 May 2008 .< ref >

In 2008 / 9 the BBC World Service received 12. 4 % of the department's £ 2. 2 billion budget and in the financial year 2011 / 12, the service received £ 255. 2 million from this grant.

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Such steel when rolled into bars was sold at £ 50 to £ 60 ( approximately £ 3, 390 to £ 4, 070 in 2008 ) a long ton.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

In 2008, Money magazine ranked Ann Arbor, 27th out of the top 100 best places to live in America.

From 2008 the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition final will be held at 100 % Design in London, UK and the Bombay Sapphire Prize will take place in Milan at the Salone Del Mobile.

Nearly 100 children at the center of an international scandal that left them stranded at an orphanage in remote eastern Chad returned home after nearly five months March 14, 2008.

He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

:* Domestic: fixed-line density is about 2 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular subscribership has been increasing and in 2008 stood at about 55 percent of the population

The former, located in Roissy near Paris, is the fifth busiest airport in the world with 60 million passenger movements in 2008, and France's primary international airport, serving over 100 airlines.

Without Abkhazia and South Osetia, the population in the regions controlled by the central government of Georgia was 4, 321, 500 in 2005 and 4, 382, 100 in 2008 ( compare the 2008 figure with the CIA estimate of 4, 630, 841 for all of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Osetia ).

combination of microwave radio relay, open-wire lines, radiotelephone, and cellular communications ; fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular teledensity approached 35 per 100 in 2008

37, 100 ( 2008 )

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

It ranked 96 in Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2006 and in October 2008, IKEA Canada LP was named one of " Canada's Top 100 Employers " by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.

The company was independent from 1926 to 2008, headquartered for most of that time in Millbank, London, and was a constituent of the FT30 Index and FTSE 100 Index.

After the nephew died without heirs in 1835, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the bequest, which amounted to about US $ 500, 000 ($ 10, 100, 997 in 2008 U. S. dollars after inflation ).

Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

The IMF forecast a growth of 7 % for Lebanon's real GDP in 2010 and 2011 following 9 % growth in 2009 and 8. 5 % in 2008 it has 54th richest GDP per capita in the world it is forecasted that Lebanon per capita will be 19, 100 by 2015 which makes it one of the strongest in the region.

* GDP ( PPP )-per capita: purchasing power parity-$ 141, 100 ( 2008 )

A limited number of these bass heads have been released by Marshall in 2008 as the " 1992LEM ", a signature series copy of Lemmy's 1992 100 Watt Super Bass Head, " Murder One ".

In September 2008, mathematicians at UCLA participating in GIMPS won part of a $ 100, 000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their discovery of a very nearly 13-million-digit Mersenne prime.

Telephones-mobile cellular: 3 million ( as of 2010 ) up from 1. 781 Million ( as of 2008 ) up from 135, 100 ()

* Oscar winners: Gladiator ( 2000 ), A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Crash ( 2005 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )

The 2008 science fiction 100 Million BC has a clear reference to " The Philadelphia Experiment " or " The Rainbow Project ".

* Million Calorie March: The Movie — a 2008 documentary film highlighting obesity and weight loss

After record revenues of € 328. 4 Million in 2007 – 08 and an after tax profit of € 2. 1 Million, Bayern reported revenues of € 303. 8 Million and a profit of € 2. 5 Million in 2008 – 09.

Predictions of the city's population reaching 5 million people pushed the state government to review the growth boundary in 2008 as part of its Melbourne @ Five Million strategy.

The Year of a Million Dreams promotion was the successor to the Happiest Celebration on Earth, and ran from 2006 to the end of 2008.

* The One Million Random Acts of Kindness Campaign ( RAK ) launched on BBC Radio in 2008.

No Turning Back: The Story So Far containing some of his previous hits and five new songs was released in 2008, peaking at No. 7, and A Million Suns released in October 2011 reached No. 8.

Between 2005 and 2008 ESADE Creapolis invested € 70 Million in its facilities in Sant Cugat.

* Newer versions of other Goodson-Todman properties such as I've Got a Secret ( 2000 & 2006 ), Beat the Clock ( 2002 ), and Password ( 2008, as Million Dollar Password ), however, did not incorporate elements of the logo, name or announcement.

* Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Wins $ 2. 2 Million Contract Option for Solar Thermal Propulsion Rocket Engine ( Press release, June 25, 2008, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne )

On December 20, 2008, CBS Radio announced that it would sell the entire Denver cluster ( this includes three radio stations ) to Wilks Broadcasting for $ 19. 5 Million.

* The On Kawara Code ( 2008 ) by the Canadian artist Timothy Comeau reproduces Kawara's date paintings and One Million Years books using web-programming.

On January 14, 2008, Joseph signed a one-year, US $ 1. 5 Million contract with the Calgary Flames.

During Disney's Year of a Million Dreams promotion ( January 2007-December 2008 ), many guests received a special Dream Fastpass.

In an April 2, 2008 episode of Fanboy Radio (# 463 ), creator Johnson explains: Having been responsible for science-fiction television series such as The Six Million Dollar Man, V and The Incredible Hulk, was approached for the television adaptation of the 1988 film Alien Nation.

Set Canterbury's house price record in May 2008 when he bought Anthony Podesta's mansion for more than $ 9 Million.

In 2008, the university announced that Raymond L. McFeetors, Chairman of The Great West Life Assurance Company, had donated $ 2. 67 Million for a dormitory to be built on newly acquired property west of the campus.

CBS picked up a new version of the show entitled Million Dollar Password, hosted by Regis Philbin, which premiered on June 1, 2008 and ran for 12 episodes over two seasons.

#* Ace Enders and A Million Different People – The Secret Wars EP ( 2008 )