Following French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit in 2008, relations have improved.

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* 1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor ( d. 2008 )

* 1971 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor ( d. 2008 )

In July 2008, the French Constitution was amended adding article 75-1, stating les langues régionales appartiennent au patrimoine de la France ( the regional languages belong to the heritage of France ).

* The Class ( 2008 film ) ( Entre les murs ), a prize-winning French film

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

Awareness and prevention campaign poster in Cayenne, French Guiana, 2008

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

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The design of the European flag was displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs ( The Class ) won the Palme d ' Or, the first French victory at the festival in 21 years.

The 2008 rural comedy Bienvenue chez les Ch ' tis drew an audience of more than 20 million, the first French film to do so.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

A Concise History of the French Revolution ( 2008 )

As of 2008, around 10, 000 French nationals lived and worked in Gabon, while the 6th Marine Infantry Battalion of the French military is also stationed there.

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 Concise History of the French Revolution ( 2008 )

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* 1913 – Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician ( d. 2008 )

* 1914 – Pearl Witherington French secret agent ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor ( b. 1948 )

* 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( b. 1936 )

As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The UDF government also failed to stop the growing negative account balance, which has since then continued to increase, reaching a negative of $ 12. 65 billion in 2008.

In February 2008, the Malaysian government announced the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy plan to harvest the virgin hinterlands of Northern Borneo.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

As of 2008, Canada ’ s total government debt burden is the lowest in the G8.

In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.

The UK's National Health Service announced in 2008 that more therapists would be trained to provide CBT at government expense as part of an initiative called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT ).

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.

It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.

On the 19th of November 2007 the Senato della Repubblica passed a class action law in Finanziara 2008, a financial document for the economy management of the government.

In South Australia, on 30 July 2008 the government introduced legislation to scrap parts of its double jeopardy law.

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

In 2008, the most popular majors were economics, government, history, psychological and brain sciences, English, biology, and engineering sciences.

The government is planning to start the process for licensing a second national operator for voice and transport services by 2008, with a view to this company starting operations in 2009.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

Afghanistan has signed a copper deal with China ( Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd .) in 2008, which is to a large scale project that involves the investment of $ 2. 8 billion dollars by China and an annual income of about $ 400 million dollars to the Afghan government.

In August 2008, it was announced that the Solomon Islands intended to open a High Commission in Suva, and in December the government of Fiji announced that it had " formally endorsed the establishment of a Resident Diplomatic Mission in Suva by the Government of the Solomon Islands ".

In January 2008, the Fiji Times Online reported that the government of Fiji had announced in a cabinet statement that it will establish full diplomatic relations with four nations: Iceland, Latvia, the Dominican Republic and Estonia.