Luanda taxi called " Candongueiro " after heavy rainfalls, 2008

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

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.

Ronald Koeman, succeeded Louis van Gaal after the 2008 – 09 season.

On 17 August 2008 club chairman and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at the chairmanship of the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella.

Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility, who operated AMPS networks in Canada, announced that they would observe the same timetable as outlined by the FCC in the United States, and as a result would not begin to dismantle their AMPS networks until after February 2008.

Such a tax was in effect for some period of time, raising at least $ AU 290 million after April 2008.

ASROC ' Matchbox ' reload doors are visible in this photograph of the Japanese Asagiri class destroyer Asagiri, formerly DD 151, renumbered TV 3516 after reclassification as a training vessel, seen here on 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

The protest ended in September 2008 after a lengthy court process.

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.

The Colorado Rockies began the 2008 season after few offseason changes from the National League champion squad of 2007.

On July 4, 2008, Colorado defeated the Florida Marlins, 18 – 17, after at one point being down, 13 – 4.

Georgia left the CIS in August 2008 after a clash with Russia over South Ossetia.

In August 2008, Jed Stone returned after 42 years.

Thompson also blamed Counter-Strike for the February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting perpetrated by Steven Kazmierczak on the day after the shooting.

* 2008 Hewa Bora Airways crash-April 15 plane crash killed at least 18 people after taking off from the Goma International Airport, tearing the roofs off houses as it plowed through a densely populated marketplace near the runway.

According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed.

At 84 years old, Daihachi Oguchi died on June 27, 2008, after being hit by a car across from his home in Nagano, Japan.

The UNMEE mission was formally abandoned in July 2008, after experiencing serious difficulties in sustaining its troops after fuel stoppages.

The economic downturn of 2008 saw the advent of the online pawnbrokers such as Borro, who offered customers the chance to gain finance against their assets without ever entering a pawn shop.

O ' Rourke revealed on September 28, 2008, that he has been diagnosed with treatable anal cancer, from which he can expect " a 95 % chance of survival.

Whatever chance that funding had of materializing was negated by the rapid onset of the late-2000s financial crisis, and the Sun ceased publication on September 30, 2008.

In July 2007, one month after the release of Michael Moore's film Sicko, Rudy Giuliani, the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, attacked the health care plans of Democratic presidential candidates as socialized medicine that was European and socialist, Giuliani claimed that he had a better chance of surviving prostate cancer in the U. S than he would have had in England and went on to repeat the claim in campaign speeches for three months before making them in a radio advertisement.

With a slim 1. 7 % chance of winning the rights to draft number 1, the Bulls won the 2008 NBA Draft Lottery and selected first overall.

-District 3: Kit Shy ( Republican ), serving from 2004-2008 which chance for reelection in 2008

However, according to a December 2008 report on the fan site The Bad Religion Page, Bentley revealed that due to Bad Religion's upcoming touring commitments for 2009, the band would not have a chance to record their new album until around the end of the year, for an expected 2010 release date.

In May 2008, on the way home from the " Joey Ramone Birthday Bash ", Chrome had a chance meeting at LaGuardia Airport with the members of Joan Jett's band The Blackhearts, including drummer Thommy Price, with whom he had played on Ronnie Spector's " Siren ".

He was defeated in the 2008 federal election, which was called before he had a chance to officially sit in the House of Commons as a Green MP.

At the start of the season they were eliminated in the second round from the 2008 – 09 Scottish Cup by Edinburgh based East Of Scotland team Spartans F. C .. At the end of the season Pollok had a chance once again to retain their West Premier League championship but lost the last league game of the season away to Auchinleck Talbot by failing to defend a 1-0 lead in the last 8 minutes.

On September 10, 2008, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals controversially rejected without comment Routier's motion for a second chance to make a case for more DNA testing.

If their expectations are violated at either level of observation they will become distressed and enact an appropriate action to stop the chance of infidelity ( Cramer et al., 2008 ).

In 2008, when Kirchner assumed the leadership of the Justicialist Party, Camaño was offered an executive position, the only ally of Lavagna to do so, in what had been seen as a chance to reconcile the different wings of Peronism.

In September 2005, Berezovsky said in an interview with the BBC: " I'm sure that Putin doesn't have the chance to survive, even to the next election in 2008.

A 2008 paper in Water Resources Research states that at current usage allocation and projected climate trends, there is a 50 % chance that live storage in lakes Mead and Powell will be gone by 2021, and that the reservoir could drop below minimum power pool elevation of as early as 2017.

According to studies of outcomes of transfusions given to trauma patients in 2008, blood substitutes yielded a 30 % increase in the risk of death and about a threefold increase in the chance of having a heart attack of for the recipients.

The winless streak was finally ended after 23 games on 15 November 2008 with a 2 – 0 win over Bury at Gigg Lane .. Newell continued to dip into the transfer market and in December 2008 the club offered former Liverpool and England striker Robbie Fowler the chance of becoming a player / coach.

In 2008, scientists involved in rinderpest eradication efforts believed there was a good chance that rinderpest would join smallpox as officially " wiped off the face of the planet ".

In 2008, however, Williams announced that if invited, the Terps would play, because it would serve as a chance to further develop six freshman players on his squad and to give senior forward James Gist more exposure.

At Microsoft's Spring 2008 Showcase in San Francisco, Dyack confirmed to TVG that a return to the Eternal Darkness brand could be on the cards: " There is a chance ; we love all the games we work on.

In his second season, Derlei fought with Hélder Postiga for a chance to play alongside Liédson, and scored some goals, including an important one in a 1 – 0 home triumph over FC Shakhtar Donetsk, in the Champions League, which sealed Sporting's group stage qualification on 4 November 2008.

He again focused on the lack of technology to protect the Earth against asteroid and comet impacts in a June 2008 cover story for The Atlantic, in which he said nothing is presently being done despite as much as a 10 % chance of a serious asteroid impact in the coming century.

Prior to his election as US president in 2008, Barack Obama, suggesting that Blair and Britain had been let down by the Bush administration, declared: ' We have a chance to recalibrate the relationship and for the United Kingdom to work with America as a full partner.