In July 2008, 10 people were arrested and 125 venomous snakes were confiscated as part of an undercover sting operation titled " Twice Shy.

In 2008, animal rights organization PETA sent members to work undercover at a pig factory farm in Iowa to investigate allegations of animal rights abuses, then released a video record showing workers treating the pigs cruelly and without regard for animal rights.

Denver police officers were also found to have used undercover detectives to instigate violence against police during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Between 2006 and 2008, an Animal Defenders International employee filmed undercover inside HLS after securing a position inside its primate toxicology unit in Cambridgeshire.

Beginning in early 2008, Carothers secretly wore a wire and worked undercover with the FBI.

In October, 2008, the FBI announced the end of a 6-month undercover operation by agents into the narcotics trafficking by the Mongols Motorcycle Club.

On August 21, 2008, the US Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) proposed new code sets to be used for reporting diagnoses and procedures on health care transactions.

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.

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.

In 2008, former editor of Newsweek Jon Meacham, a self described " fan ", criticised The Economists focus on analysis over original reporting.

A November 2008 report set out a possible framework of governance options to achieve a more integrated system of case management practices across the family law jurisdiction, with changes in judicial structures and reporting relationships.

And, in 2008, an investigative reporting team including Patricia Callahan, Maurice Possley, Sam Roe, Ted Gregory, Michael Oneal and Evan Osnos won the Pulitzer for its series about faulty government regulation of defective toys, cribs and car seats.

Collins resigned from the coaching list on June 4, 2008, reporting that he did not want to ruin his friendship with Jerry Reinsdorf.

As of August 2008, more than 113 countries around the world, including all of Europe, currently require or permit IFRS reporting and 85 require IFRS reporting for all domestic, listed companies, according to the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The media has been given greater latitude in reporting many topics of popular concern, such as the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, as well as into malpractices at the local level.

On July 5, 2008, the MSX Association's Europe website posted an announcement reporting that D4 Enterprise was selling the 1chipMSX illegally.

On September 12, 2008, during the Fox News coverage of Hurricane Ike, Rivera was knocked over by the storm surge debris while reporting live in Galveston near the 17 foot high sea wall.

By 2003 atorvastatin became the best-selling pharmaceutical in history, with Pfizer reporting sales of US $ 12. 4 billion in 2008.

On December 24, 2008, the STB approved CN's purchase for $ 300 million of the principal lines of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company ( EJ & E ) ( reporting mark EJE ) from US Steel Corp originally announced on September 27, 2007.

However, its reporting in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was seen in as more transparent and credible as Xinhua journalists operated more freely.

When the Financial Times ran a lighthearted article on famous feuds in September 2008, featuring this, the local Whitehaven News published its own complementary feature, reporting that: " The common view is that the term is insulting because it implies people could not afford to buy meat for their sandwiches, so they had to eat jam instead.

On 1 October 2008, the Africa Command became operational and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, the primary CENTCOM force on the continent, started reporting to AFRICOM at Stuttgart instead of CENTCOM in Tampa.

From October 2008 onwards, and officially from 6 January 2009, the staff of Princes William and Harry moved into their own rooms in St James ' Palace and began reporting directly to the royal princes for the first time.

Three journalists with Democracy Now !— including principal host Amy Goodman, and news producers Nicole Salazar and Sharif Abdel Kouddous — were detained by police during their reporting on the 2008 Republican National Convention protests.

Pudong has also attracted considerable fixed asset and real estate investment, reporting 87. 268 billion RMB in fixed asset investment and 27. 997 billion RMB in real estate investment in 2008.

In 2008 the Company was fined £ 2m ( reduced from a previous judgement of £ 4m ) for poor information reporting and covering up misleading leakage data.

On October 10, 2008, the FASB issued further guidance to provide an example of how to estimate fair value in cases where the market for that asset is not active at a reporting date.

In July 2008, however, responsibility for Reserve officer training was taken away from Duntroon, and these units were placed under the command of the 2nd Division, with each regiment reporting directly to its parent brigade unit.

In Arbitron's Spring 2008 ratings book, stations carrying a majority AAR programming and in markets reporting every quarter averaged a 1. 3 share.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

* ADA ... A Way of Life, 2008 Bollywood musical by Tanvir Ahmed

* Animal, 2008 album by Far East Movement

* Animal !, a 2008 album by Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

A literature review by Michael McCullough and Camile Farah, published in the Australian Dental Journal in 2008, focused on a possible connection between mouthwashes that contain alcohol, and an increased risk of oral cancer.

* The Natural Religion by Dr Brendan Connolly, 2008

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

During the first half of 2008, Armenia's widening current-account trade deficit grew by 66 percent to $ 1. 39 billion USD, with a 40 percent rise in imports.

Since early 2008, Armenia's entire rail network is managed by the Russian state railway.

For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

* Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions by Christopher M. Moreman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

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

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.