January 3, 2008 - stock markets around the world plunge following the US economic recession. Hardest hit is seen in Korea, where wounds of former divide between two countries has not been healed yet with the country being basically dependent on an international aid to rebuild after devastations of nuclear weapons.
January 6, 2008 - Islamist terrorists fail to destroy the Mosul Dam through bombing. 14 people are killed, 24 wounded.
January 8, 2008 - Kurdish autonomous government begins a case against terrorists.
January 14, 2008 - Israeli PM calls for use of all means necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
January 16, 2008 - Bashar al-Assad's government bans face veils at the universities.
January 18, 2008 - a man wearing a tactical vest and carrying loaded shotgun kills one security guard at US Capitol and wounds the other.
January 20, 2008 - Israel blocks fuel to the Gaza power plant, causing a citywide blackout and riots in the city.
January 21, 2008 - Shunin officially resigns from Presidency with high-approval ratings to take over Leningrad Oblast's seat in the Supreme Soviet (won by 76% over Democratic Union candidate). In the Supreme Soviet, Communist Party and satellite parties achieve 2/3 of seats, giving them a right to change the constitution. Communist Party candidate, Konstantin Arkhipovich Borodin wins the Soviet presidential election. In Venezuela, agricultural exports are banned, with exporter farms being nationalized.
January 29, 2008 - local Sunni mosque in mosul is raided by Kurdish police for alleged support for terrorism. Two clerics are shot dead in process.
February 3, 2008 - first meeting of newly elected Soviet. Former President Shunin is elected as the Chairman. Inauguration of Konstantin Borodin as a President of the Soviet Union proceeds.
February 4, 2008 - Liberation Forces for Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) is formed in Kurdish autonomous republic in Iraq as a (very)radical military force in response against growing secularism, abandonment of Islam by many followers since 2001 and Kurdish suppression of radical mosques.
February 6, 2008 - dominated by social democrats, Polish Sejm votes for legalizing an abortion for demand in Poland, sparking major unrest.
February 9, 2008 - Polish Senate votes for new abortion law to be implemented. In Turkey, no one is going to allow to remove a ban on wearing religious head cover in the universities. More devout Muslims criticize it as a lack of the freedom of religion, secular ones just shrug and study more, while certain elements in the West are happy.
February 11, 2008 - Jolanta Kwaśniewska signs new abortion laws, making it official in the Republic of Poland.
March 3, 2008 - ISI forces fail to assassinate the president of Iraqi Kurdistan.
March 14, 2008 - four US soldiers are killed in Jeddah by radical Islamists.
March 16, 2008 - Sulaymaniyah attacks - local Mobad and several Zoroastrian followers are murdered by ISI. A suicide bomber explodes inside the Temple, killing four more pwople, including two children.
March 19, 2008 - March of the Thousand - in protest against local Governor of Sulaymaniyah, who is accussed of favouring religious extremism and radicalism.
March 21, 2008 - Sulaymaniyah's Governor is forced out of office by the government of Iraqi Kurdistan. Interim Governor shuts down several mosques, which are believed to be "hotbeads of radicalism".
April 6, 2008 - anti-Chinese protests stop Olympic torch relay in London, resulting in a members of Chinese secret police (security runners) beating protesters, provoking diplomatic crisis as one woman died in hospital due to sustained wounds. Two security runners are arrested by British police officers.
April 8, 2008 - Mahalla's food riots in Egypt - 31 are dead, 121 wounded due to harsh police suppression of a demonstration.
April 9, 2008 - South Korean legislative election - nationalist "Independent Korea Party" makes significant gains in the National Assembly, gaining 121 seats, placing second after the ruling party.
April 10, 2008 - in Södertälje, Sweden there are 6,000 Saudi immigrants.
April 11, 2008 - US-Israeli airstrike is conducted against alleged Syrian WMD production centre, near Damascus.
April 19, 2008 - an US airstrike is performed against secret Taliban base in Pakistan.
May 1, 2008 - Petersburg Soviet votes to change name of the city to Leningrad.
May 9, 2008 - in Pakistan, growing unrest over increasing food prices and poverty, leads to numerous demonstrations across the country, demanding lifting of a martial law (since held 2001), abolishment of military junta and free elections. May Demonstrations are dispersed by the Pakistani Army, with government promising to increase standard of living and to ease a martial law.
May 14, 2008 - Eurovision Song Contest is won by a Soviet singer.
Spring, 2008 - unrest in the Third World countries about increasing food prices continues.
June 11, 2008 - in response to continuous pirate attacks on Soviet citizens, President Borodin announces that the Soviet Union will send a sizable military force to eradicate threat of piracy.
June 16, 2008 - Mumbai attacks of 2008 - 189 people die and over 600 are wounded after Islamist bombing attacks in the city.
August 8-24, 2008 - 2008 Summer Olympics take place in China. Soviet Union places second, beyond China and ahead of the United States.
October 24, 2008 - human remains found in 1991 are confirmed to be those of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. After a controversial vote (with parts of hardline communists walking away from the session) in the Leningrad Soviet, his body is buried in Leningrad.
November 4, 2008 - Republican Mitt Romney is elected as a President of the United States.