The southern areas became part of German offices for the United Nations in 2008.

The German Question and the Origins of the Cold War ( IPOC: Milan ) ( 2008 )

PiPz Dachs AEV of the German Army ( 2008 )

* 2008 – Freddy Breck, German schlager singer and news anchor ( b. 1942 )

On Europe Day 2008, the flag was flown for the first time above the German Reichstag.

The German company SkySails has developed ship-pulling kites as a supplemental power source for cargo ships, first tested in January 2008 on the ship MS Beluga Skysails.

It was launched on 17 December 2007 and was set to leave the northern German port of Bremerhaven to Guanta, Venezuela on January 22, 2008.

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.

Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400 – 1800 ( 2008 ) 360pp essays by scholars covering German and Italian territories, the Netherlands, France, and England ; plus guilds in cloth spinning, painting, glass blowing, goldsmithing, pewterware, book-selling, and clock making.

One was shot by a German soldier the day after an armistice was declared in Paris, the other while sabotaging a train ( Acquaviva 2008 ).

Although the original organisation went into administration in 1992, the name was attached to a German company selling cars and accessories in 2008, and an unsuccessful attempt to set up a new Formula One team the following year.

In 2008, there were rumors of a three-dimensional Kid Icarus game for the Wii that was allegedly developed by the German American studio Factor 5.

In 2008, the German magazine sport auto conducted a test for production cars, with the CCX winning the event in a total time of.

* 1920 – Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt, German football manager ( d. 2008 )

* 1946 – Klaus Dinger, German musician ( Neu !, La Düsseldorf, and Kraftwerk ) ( d. 2008 )

In 2008, Albert Einstein's 1954 German letter in which he dismissed belief in a personal God was auctioned off for more than US $ 330, 000.

In a 2008 interview Lipponen said that he had been a " target of East German manipulation ".

In June 2008 Zoya testified to the Human Rights Commission of the German Parliament ( Bundestag ) to persuade the German government to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

* 2008: Patricia Kaas recorded this song in German (" Wo sind die Clowns?

* August 22, 2008 – Somali Pirates hijack German, Iranian, and Japanese cargo ships off the coast of Somalia, in seven such attacks since June 20.

* September 6 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler ( d. 2008 )

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

Previous BBC News programming includes Head 2 Head, Your News, STORYFix and News 24 Tonight a regular weekday evening programme providing a round up of the day's news which ran from 2005 to 2008.

The countdown since 2008 has shown the elements of journalism and production involved in bringing news stories to air

' http :// www. metropulse. com / news / 2008 / mar / 06 / clarence-brown-forgotten-director /

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

On 11 January 2008, Jay Kay himself posted a news item in which he thanked everyone who wished him the best for his birthday, and announced that the writing process for the new album had just begun.

* In 2008, Chomsky replied to questions concerning the ways internet blogs and self-generated news reportage conform to and differ from the propaganda model.

Beginning in June 2008, two news segments could be viewed freely.

In the summer of 2008, there was an intense discussion about refactoring of VHDL code on the news :// comp. lang. vhdl newsgroup.

The news was confirmed by FARC-EP commander ' Timochenko ' on pan-Latin American television station teleSUR on 25 May 2008.

On August 28, 2009, a Swedish public news outlet reported that Romanov family jewelry, found in 2008 in the archives of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was returned.

16 April 2008 < http :// news. bbc. co. uk / 2 / hi / 1266534. stm >.</ ref > There are more than 17, 000 child soldiers fighting on the government side or for rebel forces even after 25, 000 former child soldiers had been demobilized from rebel groups in Southern Sudan in 2001.

Measurements of Mercury's exosphere, which is practically a vacuum, revealed more ions derived from water than scientists had expected .< ref > from the WayBackMachine archive of < nowiki > http :// www. planetary. org / news </ nowiki > for 13 October 2008 ; the MESSENGER selection under PLANETARY NEWS </ ref > All of these observations are consistent with water ice and / or other volatiles being available to hypothetical far future colonists of Mercury.

On 30 July 2008, Partridge summed up the status of the band on the news website Swindon Advertiser, in his " Ask Andy " column:

* Andrew Kennis, Media Accuracy on Latin America, 15 July 2008, What is the Venezuelan news media actually like ?.

Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter ( Baron De Reuter ) ( July 21, 1816 – February 25, 1899 ), a German-born British entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency, since 2008 part of the Thomson Reuters conglomerate.

In December 2008, a number of Irish news sources reported testing had revealed " extremely high " levels of dioxins, by toxic equivalent, in pork products, ranging from 80 to 200 times the EU's upper safe limit of 1. 5 pg WHO-TEQ < sub > DFP </ sub >/ μg i. e. 0. 12 to 0. 3 parts per billion.

Some new arts content has also been produced, but there is virtually no straight news reporting and several of the website's top-level menu items still show the most recent content as being from September 2008 when the newspaper closed.

According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, " employment of news analysts, reporters, and correspondents is expected to decline 6 percent between 2008 and 2018.

" The Occupational Outlook Handbook report that the median annual wage for news analysts, reporters, and correspondents in the United States was $ 34, 850 in May 2008, with the middle 50 percent earning between $ 25, 760 and $ 52, 160, and the bottom and top 10 percent earning less than $ 20, 180 and more than $ 77, 480, respectively.

More recently, dioxins have been in the news with the poisoning of President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine in 2004, the Naples Mozzarella Crisis the Irish pork crisis of 2008, and the German feed incident of 2010.