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.

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.

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa said March 3, 2008 that a deal to release political prisoners — including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before the March 1, 2008 Colombian raid into his country.

As of 2008, the ICS is nearly finished a task begun in 1974, subdividing the Phanerozoic eonothem into internationally accepted stages using two types of benchmark.

* 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

The government has recovered nearly $ 22 billion under the False Claims Act between 1987 ( after the significant 1986 amendments ) and 2008.

Tourism employs nearly 150 thousand people and the total income from tourism was 4 billion euros in 2008.

At the end, rival Lebanese leaders reached consensus over Doha Agreement on May 21, 2008, to end the 18-month political feud that exploded into fighting and nearly drove the country to a new civil war.

In July 2008, the Washington Times reported that nearly a fourth of the 540 Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges, " including human trafficking, immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder ".

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.

* 2008 – U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

Margaret River is the foremost Geographical Indication wine region in the South West Australia Zone, with nearly 5, 500 hectares under vine and over 138 wineries as at 2008.

In 2008, the government called for the formation of nearly 15, 000 civil defence committees at the village level for additional protection.

In January 2008, Abdul returned to the music charts for the first time in nearly 13 years with the single " Dance Like There's No Tomorrow ," the first track on the album Randy Jackson's Music Club Vol 1.

On 10 January 2008, former vice presidential candidate Clara Rojas and former congresswoman Consuelo González were freed after nearly six years in captivity.

South Korea's trade with Japan was US $ 892. 1 million in 2008, with a surplus of nearly US $ 327. 1 million on the Japanese side.

In the beginning of 2008, TeliaSonera announced measures to save nearly 500 million Euros which would include 2900 redundancies: 2000 from Sweden and 900 from Finland.

Tourism employs nearly 150 thousand people and the total income from tourism was 4 billion euros in 2008.

In April 2009 Greenland landed its first bowhead whale in nearly forty years after being given a quota by the IWC in 2008 for two whales a year until 2012.

During May and June 2008, Zanzibar suffered a major failure of its electricity system, which left the island without electricity for nearly a month.

Despite investment in fixed lines, the density of main lines remains the lowest in Europe with nearly ten lines per 100 people ( 2008 ); however, cellular telephone use is widespread and generally effective.

Only 8 years later in 2008, the scale of irrigated land increased to an estimated total of 3, 245, 566 km², what is nearly the size of India.

ATRAC was also used on nearly all FLASH memory Walkman devices until the 8 series but is now only used in Sony's MiniDisc devices ( as of November 2008 ) as ATRAC is fundamental to the MiniDisc specification.

Commodity assets under management more than doubled between 2008 and 2010 to nearly $ 380bn.

* Lönnqvist, Minna ( 2008 ) " Kathleen M. Kenyon 1906-1978, A hundred years after her birth, The formative years of a female archaeologist: From socio-politics to the stratigraphical method and the radiocarbon revolution in archaeology ," in Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid, April 3 – 8, 2006, ed.

By 2008 there were several hundred casinos world wide offering roulette games.

Several hundred adults and children were imprisoned after members of the Justice and Equality Movement attacked Khartoum in May 2008, a disproportionate number from the Darfur region.

One hundred of the Nature stories between 1999 and 2006 were published as the collection Futures from Nature in 2008.

In 1960, the BBC opened the BBC Television Centre, and in 2008, Westfield London, a large development with new transport links and a shopping centre, finally completed the redevelopment after one hundred years.

When Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was constructed, NYCB was offered the New York State Theater ( renamed the David H. Koch Theater since 2008 when the billionaire made a donation of one hundred million dollars for major renovations ).

The breed was isolated from outside influence for over two hundred years, from 1789 to 2008.

After testing by over one hundred judges during the preliminary phase, in June and July 2008, six finalists were selected from thirteen original entrants-artificial conversational entity ( ACE ).

This was highly controversial and led several hundred bishops to boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

On 17 October 2008, Garzón formally declared the acts of repression committed by the Franco regime to be crimes against humanity, and accounted them in more than one hundred thousand killings during and after the Spanish Civil War.

In early 2008, Bruria Keren, the leader of a group of women estimated at more than a hundred who wear burkas, multiple layers of clothing and full face coverings was arrested in Beit Shemesh.

In 2008, engineers at Harvard University demonstrated that room temperature emission of several hundred nanowatts of coherent terahertz radiation could be achieved with a semiconductor source.

The complaints were rejected by Israel's Supreme Court, leading to a demonstration by several hundred people in November 2008.

In March 2008 the house and grounds opened to the public for the first time, for one hundred days, and attracted 12, 000 visitors.

No FA Vase winner has yet reached the Football League, although 2008 – 09 finalists Glossop North End had briefly competed in the old First Division over a hundred years earlier, and 1985 finalists Fleetwood Town will be participating in the Football League for 2012-13 season after winning the Conference, though they were reformed in 1997.

There have been over a hundred artists featured from Europe, South America, USA, and Canada, including Real McCoy ( twice-1997 and 2009 ), Culture Beat ( twice-1993 and 2004 ) Cascada ( three times-2004, 2006, 2008 ), DHT, B4-4 ( a crowd favourite ), Joee, Sarina Paris, Len, Boomtang Boys, Snap !, Waldo's People, Do ( singing DJ Sammy's " Heaven "), Haiducci, DC Project, Jam & Spoon, Elissa, Stevie B, Ian Van Dahl, Sash !, Rupee, Kevin Lyttle, Jesse McCartney, JoJo, Elise Estrada, Basshunter and Daddy Yankee.

The Giacomini Wetland Restoration Project, completed in 2008, returned to wetland several hundred acres at the south end of the bay that had been drained for grazing during the 1940s.

A replacement bypass bridge was constructed several hundred metres upstream and opened in 2008.

It was ranked 37th out of several hundred Midwestern Universities in 2006, and 47th in 2007, 40th in 2008, and 55th in 2009.

The church's move will accommodate almost three hundred students until December 2008.

Germs, viruses, and secrets: government plans to move exotic disease research to the mainland United States: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, one hundred tenth congress, second session, May 22, 2008.

Five hundred fans attended the first autograph session in Taiwan, but more than 1000 fans attended their first ever autograph session in Hong Kong, on January 27, 2008.

The current population in Japan is approximately 100-150 birds ( 20 breeding pairs and unpaired individuals ), whereas on mainland Asia the population is higher, variously estimated at several hundred or perhaps thousands of individuals ( Slaght and Surmach 2008 ).

Since 2006, its leading program is the annual Moody's Mega Math Challenge ( M < sup > 3 </ sup > Challenge ), a student academic challenge co-sponsored with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ), in which several hundred teams of high school students use quantitative analysis and modeling to solve problems related to real-life financial topics such as Social Security and the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008.