In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

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.

* 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 ).

Beginning in the 2008 – 2009 academic year, Dartmouth instituted a new financial aid policy extending need-blind admission to international students and replaced all student loans with scholarships and grants.

On June 2, 2008, during an interview at the Danish Komiks. dk fair, Don stated that he would not do any more Disney comics, citing eye troubles, low pay, and the constant use of his stories in special hardback or album editions by international Disney licensees without any payment of royalties or requests for permission for the use of his name.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2008 called the announced movement of Colombian forces in Ecuador a " war crime ," and joined Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.

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.

His 2008 film The Sky Crawlers was met with similarly positive international reception.

In collaboration with Studio 4C, American director Michael Arias released Tekkon Kinkreet in 2008, to international acclaim.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

Commonly in reference to Finland's policies vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but could refer to similar international relations, such as Denmark's attitude toward Germany between 1871 and 1940, and Taiwan's relation with China since 2008.

Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

Although these gains were undercut by international competition, the apparel sector in 2008 made up two-thirds of Haiti's annual 490 million US dollars exports.

The international dispute is still not solved as of 2008.

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

A new international terminal was built by the government of Japan and began operation since 2008, which is the first of three terminals to be opened so far.

In January 2008, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella launched an attack on Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".

Ireland supported a UN commission of inquiry and international level monitoring of the situation in Burma after 2008, as part of their efforts to support the Burmese people in their struggle for democracy and human rights.

Nicaragua relies on international economic assistance to meet internal-and external-debt financing obligations, although foreign donors curtailed this funding in response to widespread allegations of electoral fraud in Nicaragua's November 2008 elections.

Net international reserves at the end of May 2002 stood at $ 9. 16 billion, up from $ 8. 6 billion ( 2001 ), $ 17 billion at the end of 2006, over $ 20 billion in 2007, and over $ 35 billion in May 2008.

In 2008, several international organizations highlighted the potato's role in world food production, in the face of developing economic problems.

Of international restaurant chains only Pizza Hut is well established, although Vapiano has a few restaurants in Stockholm and Domino's have been trying to establish in southern Sweden since 2008.

A January 2008 directive states that the reasoning behind this is since " Prisoner of War " is the international legal recognized status for such people there is no need for any individual country to follow suit.

In 2008, another female opera star, Diana Damrau, released a CD with seven Salieri coloratura arias.

He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.

As an example, Mexico started to export irradiated guava to the U. S. in 2008 and mango, sweet lime, manzano pepper in 2009 ; and has received approval for citrus and star fruit with exports to initiate in 2012.

The lawsuit claimed that Blakeman had given a copyrighted screenplay called Go November to Grammer in 2006, and that Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as a Republican president but instead ended up playing a similar role in Swing Vote, which was released on August 1, 2008.

BD + 36 3317, a white star in the young open cluster Stephenson 1, was discovered as a binary eclipsing system by Violat-Bordonau in 2008 ; its period is 4. 30216 days ; its other name is VSX J185422. 2 + 365107.

There have also been many fictional depictions of wrestling ; the 2008 film The Wrestler received several Oscar nominations and began a career revival for star Mickey Rourke.

In an interview in 2008, Sondheim said " There is a move afoot to do Follies movie with a well-known director and a well-known star, and I'm not going to tell you who they are.

* Winner of Wheels Gold star cars award for best compact SUV 2008

On 25 April 2008, ITV announced that the new series would go into production, and in June 2008, that American actor James Caviezel would star in the role of Number 6, with Ian McKellen taking on the role of Number 2 in all six episodes.

In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River ( 2003 ) and Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 ), for which he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling ( 2008 ).

Before season 2008, the Archer-Hird Medal was created honouring Hird and former North Melbourne Football Club star Glenn Archer.

Actress Mayim Bialik-former star of TV's Blossom and currently playing a neuroscientist named Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory-completed her PhD in 2008 with a dissertation on Prader-Willi syndrome.

Hugh Jackman, star of Australia ( 2008 film ) | Australia.

Some modern European-made stories with Horace as star character were published in the United States by Gemstone from 2003 – 2008, including

Ashrita Furman set the Guinness World Record for number of star jumps ( jumping jacks ) in one minute at 61, on May 17, 2008.

Following its 5. 52-year cycle, the star would normally have started its next dimming in January 2009, but the pattern was noticed starting early in July 2008 by the southern Gemini Observatory near La Serena, Chile.

In April 2008, Witherspoon appeared as a guest star at the 2008 charitable campaign Idol Gives Back.

* Jody Payne Guitarist who played with American country music star Willie Nelson for 34 years and retired in 2008.

In a 2008 interview in Christianity Today, Entertainment Tonight writer Chris Willman asserts that Norman's " influence outweighed his sales so much that it's comical .... He really could've been a star if he were singing about something other than Jesus.

Hung then worked again with director Wilson Yip and star Donnie Yen, as the action director for the 2008 film Ip Man.

From 2007 – 2008, Plant recorded and performed with bluegrass star Alison Krauss.

Subsequently, however, the Chamber has revealed only that Lestz ( who received his own star in 2004 ) became chairman after Grant died in 2008.