On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field.

* 2008 – The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.

In October 2008, the United States Department of Justice defined an Alford plea as: " when a the defendant maintains his or her innocence with respect to the charge to which he or she offers to plead guilty ".

The ANC and its members were officially removed from the United States terrorism watch list in 2008.

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

As of February 18, 2008, carriers in the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies such as AT & T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently.

Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility, who operated AMPS networks in Canada, announced that they would observe the same timetable as outlined by the FCC in the United States, and as a result would not begin to dismantle their AMPS networks until after February 2008.

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.

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Cooperative drills with the United States are very common, the last series of them conducted in 2008.

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

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

Charlton held the record for most appearances for Manchester United ( 758 ), but this was surpassed by Ryan Giggs on 21 May 2008 ( the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final ).

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

Coldcut also collaborated with video mashup artist TV Sheriff and NomIg., to produce two audiovisual pieces " World of Evil " ( 2004 ) and " Revolution ' 08 " ( 2008 ), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of the respective years.

On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.

Kosovo, administrated by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo since 1999, declared independence in 2008.

The United States produced in 2010, and the UK in 2008.

* Red Bull Cola has been available in the United States since 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.

In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.

Dachshunds are one of the most popular pets in the United States, ranking seventh in the 2008 AKC registration statistics.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

The original 1952 recording of A Child's Christmas in Wales was a 2008 selection for the United States National Recording Registry, stating that it is " credited with launching the audiobook industry in the United States ".

Devo played dates in the United States, Japan, Australia, France, and Spain in the summer of 2008.

Indeed, the use of derivatives to conceal credit risk from third parties while protecting derivative counterparties contributed to the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

Since 2008 the United States has charged at least 57 defendants for attempting to spy for China.

Food prices rose 4 % in the United States in 2007, the highest increase since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again in 2008.

Hong Kong 41 %, Metropolitan France 20 %, Japan 14 %, United States 8 % ( 2008 )

Metropolitan France 30 %, Singapore 14 %, United States 10 %, China 7 %, New Zealand 6 %, Australia 3 % ( 2008 )

* 2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam.

* 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

* The January 15, 2008, bombing of a U. S. Embassy vehicle in Beirut.

Libyan People's Bureau ( Embassy ) in London, Knightsbridge, 2008

The U. S. Embassy in Rabat commented in 2008 that: ' Civilian control, if ascribed to the person of the King, is complete, but there is no real Defense Ministry.

In December 2008, The Syrian Embassy was opened in Beirut for the first time in history since both countries gained their Independence during the 1940s.

On September 17, 2008, Al Qaeda militants attacked the U. S. Embassy in San ‘ a ’.

Craig and Barbara Barrett at the U. S. Embassy in Helsinki, Christmas 2008

Legislation and Law Enforcement: On June 11, four Sudanese men sentenced to death for the January 1, 2008, killing of two U. S. Embassy staff members escaped from Khartoum's maximum security Kober prison.

On 28 June 2008, he was reported by Mail Online to have received a warning from Downing Street after MI5 discovered that he was holding meetings with a suspected Russian spy Alexander Polyakov, officially a counsellor at the Russian Embassy in London ; it was also claimed that MacKinlay had been targeted by aides of Russia's richest man, Oleg Deripaska, as a ' stooge ' for use in a High Court battle.

As Ambassador, Schieffer hosted distinguished leaders, such as on May 13, 2008 the crew members of STS-123 NASA space shuttle Endeavor discussed their March 11 – 26 mission to the International Space Station and other aspects of astronaut life with a group of Tokyo-area Japanese junior high and high school students at the Embassy.

* Power of 10 ( 2007 – 2008 ) ( in association with Embassy Row )

In 2008, Gunnery Sergeant Matt Blais, who was a Marine security guard in the American Embassy in Slovakia, discovered that Strank was not a natural-born U. S. citizen.

Across the street from the northern boundary of the memorial is the new Embassy of the United States in Berlin, which opened July 4, 2008.

An Iraqi man named Ali Lutfi Jassar al-Rawi aka Abu Rasha, an architect from Baghdad, was arrested by Iraqi and US forces in 2008 after contacting the British Embassy in Baghdad and attempting to extort 1 million dollars in return for disclosing the location of Hassan's body.

In September 2008, a plaque in memory of Sergeant Nicholas was unveiled by the community of Zonnebeke and the New Zealand Embassy in Brussels, near Geluveld, just south west of the area where Nicholas won the VC.

The Norwegian Embassy, the Norwegian Office for Foreign Affairs were informed by Mediatex-the company behind the Thor Steinar brand-on the 6th of December 2007 that future collections starting and including the Spring / Summer 2008 collection will no longer use the national symbol of Norway.

* David Ignatius ( 17 April 2008 ) A Blast Still Reverberating Washington Post Discussion of 1983 Beirut US Embassy bombing

The Meister Hall building at BCC by architect Marcel Breuer was also featured as a " Russian Embassy " in the " Burn After Reading " movie by the Coen brothers 2008

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In November, 2008, Ambassador Miles was recalled to active duty to serve as Charge of the American Embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

The Embassy ceased to have consular responsibilities since the creation, in 2008, of the Brazilian Consulate-General in Washington, located at 1030, 15th Street.

Reception at the Austrian Embassy in Paris ( March 2008 )

In October 2008 it was announced that the U. S. Embassy in London would relocate to the area, moving from its current location in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair.

On March 24, 2008, a rocket impacted the Embassy grounds killing Paul Converse, a SIGIR auditor.

Charles Anthony “ Tony ” Gillespie, Jr. ( 22 March 1935 – 7 March 2008 ) was a former United States career diplomat who helped to open the first United States Embassy in Grenada.