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.

In 2008, after a chance meeting with CPAN admin Adam Kennedy at the Open Source Developers Conference, Linux kernel developer Rusty Russell created the CCAN, the Comprehensive C Archive Network.

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 A4 connection from Zagreb to Varaždin and Čakovec exists since 2003, which was extended to the Hungarian border in October 2008 to complete the upgrade of the European route E71.

The series was extended a year to show the process of getting the 2008 Cheerleaders ready.

On August 21, 2008, the band announced an extended break from touring due to the health-related issues of Flouride and Peligro.

It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization in 1962, the consortium extended its first offer of membership in 46 years to Allegheny College in 2008.

Bashir had her term extended in October 2004 to February 2008, again extended in October 2007 for a further five years to 2012, and further extended in September 2011 to February 2014.

The Latvian economy entered a phase of fiscal contraction during the second half of 2008 after an extended period of credit-based speculation and unrealistic inflation of real estate values.

Nicaragua extended diplomatic recognition to South Ossetia and Abkhazia on 5 September 2008.

In November 2008 Philips renewed and extended its F1 partnership with AT & T Williams.

In 2003, high-speed service was inaugurated on a new line from Madrid to Lleida and extended to Barcelona in 2008.

SMTP was first defined by RFC 821 ( 1982, eventually declared STD 10 ), and last updated by RFC 5321 ( 2008 ) which includes the extended SMTP ( ESMTP ) additions, and is the protocol in widespread use today.

In Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U. S. 407 ( 2008 ), the Court extended the reasoning of Coker by ruling that the death penalty was excessive for child rape " where the victim ’ s life was not taken.

One daily train was extended to San José ( 96 km from Montevideo ) on January 15, 2007, and other was extended from 25 de Agosto to Florida ( 109 km from Montevideo ) on January 2, 2008.

By the end of the year, they extended the experiment in to 2008.

In late 2005, the World Bank, which had extended Yemen a four-year US $ 2. 3 billion economic support package in October 2002 together with other bilateral and multilateral lenders, announced that as a consequence of Yemen ’ s failure to implement significant reforms it would reduce financial aid by one-third over the period July 2005 through July 2008.

London in 2003 and extended in 2007 ( see London congestion charge ); Stockholm in 2006, as seven month trial, and then on a permanent basis since August 2007 ( see Stockholm congestion tax ); and since January 2008, Milan introduced a traffic charge scheme as a one-year trial, called Ecopass, that exempts higher emission standard vehicles ( Euro IV ) and other alternative fuel vehicles.

An extended version was released on DVD on 10 November 2008.

With the passage of the Farm Bill in the summer of 2008 these expanded federal income tax incentives were extended such that they also apply to all conservation easements donated in 2008 and 2009 and then this provision was extended again to apply to donations in 2010 and 2011.

In 2008, John Wright extended van Vogt's Null-A series with Null-A Continuum.