* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

In the Beano's home city of Dundee, a special exhibition was held at the University of Dundee featuring original artwork and other memorabilia loaned from D. C. Thomson-it ran until 20 September 2008.

In 2008, 7. 1 million tourists visited the city.

National Geographic Traveler ranked Columbus 11th on its historic destinations list in late 2008, describing the city as " authentic, unique, and unspoiled.

* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) introduces thirteen " extra dimensional beings " with crystal skeletons, who founded a city that became the basis of the El Dorado myth.

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.

Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network ( GaWC ) research.

Since 2008 the Afghan National Security Forces ( ANSF ) are in charge of security in the city.

On August 26, 2008 Dr. Lederman was video-recorded by a science focused organization called ScienCentral, on the street in a major U. S. city, answering questions from passersby.

The other highway will connect the city center of Luanda to Viana, and was expected to be completed by the end of 2008.

As of August 2008, an 18-story condominium high-rise called Capitol Club Tower is in the design phase with the adjacent parking structure already having been approved by city council and purchased by the developer.

Lausanne became the first city in Switzerland to have a rubber-tyred metro system, with the m2 Line which opened in October 2008.

In 2008, extreme waves and high tides caused widespread flooding in the capital city of Majuro and other urban centres, located at above sea level.

Development assistance from India has included a grant of US $ 100, 000 in June 2008 for a solar street lighting project in the capital city of Majuro and grant of 5 ITEC scholarships in 2010-11.

On February 5, 2008, the city, under mayor Michael Bloomberg, threw a ticker tape parade in honor of the Giants ' Super Bowl XLII victory at the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan.

In 2008, Nashville was ranked as the 18th-worst spring allergy city in the U. S. by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

ESPN. com placed Eagles fans fourth in the league in its 2008 survey, citing the connection between the team's performance and the mood of the city.

It was the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2008, a key stage in the creation of a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

The city also boasts a GDP per capita of 200, 4 % ( 2008 ) of Poland's average.

In June 2008, when word came that over 600 American service personnel were coming to receive training for the war in Iraq, residents of the city of Paris adopted them and made donations of everything the troops could possibly need so they might enjoy their stay in Paris before they went on to the war.

Crowe also owns a house in the North Queensland city of Townsville: he purchased the $ 450, 000 home in the suburb of Douglas on 3 May 2008.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade had a joint press conference along with a close meeting in Feb 2008 in the city of Mashhad, both side pledged to expand the bilateral ties in the fields of economy, tourism and politics in addition to increase the efforts for empowering the OIC.

Lausanne is the only city with a metro system ( Lausanne Metro ), which includes two lines, the first being a light metro, while the other being a fully automated metro opened in 2008.

This thought had originated due to the idea that sign language hinders the development of an oral language in deaf children ( Mayberry, 2008 ).

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

The Falcons had the NFL's second best winning percentage at home during the period of 2008 to 2010 with a. 833 percentage.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

The development of the chemistry of alkaloids was accelerated by the emergence of spectroscopic and chromatographic methods in the 20th century, so that by 2008 more than 12, 000 alkaloids had been identified.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

Both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility had announced that they would observe the same shutdown guidelines as in the United States, and decommissioned their AMPS networks in 2008.

It had been hoped that patient adherence to antipsychotics would be higher with the atypicals, but a 2008 review found that the data have failed to substantiate the notion that novel antipsychotic drug use leads to improved medication compliance and favorable clinical outcomes.

By expanding the conditions for which they were indicated, Astrazeneca's Seroquel and Eli Lilly's Zyprexa had become the biggest selling antipsychotics in 2008 with global sales of $ 5. 5 billion and $ 5. 4 billion respectively.

" He had the touch ," Frazetta said of Capp in 2008.

In Flanders, VRT channels Een, Ketnet / Canvas ) had a combined market share of 40. 0 % in 2008, VMMa channels ( VTM, 2BE and JIM ) 27. 27 %, SBS Belgium channels ( VT4 and Vijf TV ) 10. 91 % and Media ad Infinitum ( Vitaya and Vitaliteit ) 3, 64 %.

In 2008 Bulgaria had 204 airports, 127 of which had paved runways.

On July 9, 2008, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton posted a video to YouTube claiming that they had discovered the body of a dead Sasquatch in a forest in northern Georgia.

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 ).

The fourth revamp, which happened with the issue dated 18 October 2008 had been the most major revamp to date.

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.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

As of 2008, the country had an estimated 987 km of gauge track.

In total, there were 34 airports in 2008, only 10 of which had paved runways.

As of September 2008, only one law remained to be approved, but was delayed because it had a faulty procedure for approval.

By 2008, numerous service areas and petrol stations had been constructed along all Croatian motorways.