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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2008.

Daily events

Tuesday January 1, 2008

Introduction of environmental zones

The reverse of the Cypriot 1 euro coin

• Berlin / Germany : The letter monopoly in Germany falls completely, data retention and the new Insurance Contract Act come into force.
• Berlin , Hanover , Cologne / Germany : In three cities, only motor vehicles are allowed in the city center that meet the requirements of the ordinance on labeling motor vehicles with a low level of pollution , provided that they are defined for the vehicle class. These are the first three environmental zones in Germany.
• Bern / Switzerland : In the New Year's address , the Swiss Federal President Pascal Couchepin calls for reconciliation and addresses climate change.
• Liverpool / United Kingdom , Stavanger / Norway : The British city of Liverpool and Stavanger in Norway are this year's European Capitals of Culture .
• Ljubljana / Slovenia : With Slovenia, one of the acceding countries of the EU enlargement in 2004 takes over the presidency of the EU for the first time .
• New York / United States : Burkina Faso , Costa Rica , Croatia , Libya and Vietnam are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
• Nicosia / Cyprus , Valletta / Malta : The countries Malta and Cyprus introduce the euro as the official national currency . This means that the euro is the official currency in 15 EU countries. However, the euro does not apply in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as a legal tender .
• Pulheim / Germany : The last German veteran of the First World War is dead. Erich Kästner saw the light of day 107 years and nine months ago and was drafted in July 1918.

Wednesday January 2, 2008

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : The African Union wants to intervene after the controversial presidential election and election fraud allegations and the unrest in Kenya .
• Islamabad / Pakistan : The parliamentary elections scheduled for January 8, 2008 in Pakistan will be postponed to February 18. Head of the electoral commission Qazi Mohammed Farooq justified this decision with the chaos after the murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

Thursday January 3, 2008

Electors per state in the November 2008 US presidential election

• Des Moines / United States : In the US state of Iowa start the primaries the Democrats and Republicans for the 2008 presidential election .
• Sri Jayewardenepura / Sri Lanka : The government announces the ceasefire with the LTTE rebels, which was signed in February 2002.
• United States : 16 US states are suing the Bush administration after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected a decision on December 19, 2007 to regulate the CO ₂ emissions of the state of California . In addition to California, the states of Massachusetts , Arizona , Connecticut , Delaware , Illinois , Maine , Maryland , New Jersey , New Mexico , New York , Oregon , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , Vermont and Washington are plaintiffs.

Friday January 4, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : The Berlin Labor Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Association of Municipal Employers' Associations against the ver.di and dbb tarifunion unions for the application of the most-favored nation clause . Thus, the question of extending working hours in the municipalities will probably be decided in the 2008 collective bargaining round in the public service .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : According to today's decision by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the opponents of the G8 summit are neither members of a terrorist organization nor members of a criminal organization . The raid by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in May 2007 against 40 apartments and facilities of the so-called autonomous scene in six federal states was declared illegal. Attorney General Monika Harms is now being criticized for having exceeded her competencies.

Saturday 5th January 2008

Mikheil Saakashvili

• Naples / Italy : After the President of the Council of Ministers Romano Prodi personally ordered the opening of an old garbage dump in the Campania region and the removal of the piles of public rubbish, there were considerable protests and riots.
• New York / United States : After the media company Time Warner announced that future film productions should only appear on Blu-ray Disc , this is viewed as a victory in the format war over HD DVD .
• Tbilisi / Georgia : After the early presidential elections in Georgia in 2008 , ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili declared himself the winner ahead of time.

Sunday January 6, 2008

56th Four Hills Tournament (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)

• Bischofshofen / Austria : The ski jumper Janne Ahonen wins the 56th Four Hills Tournament after his last jump on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze . It is the Finn's fifth overall victory , making him the sole record winner.
• Stuttgart / Germany : The traditional Epiphany meeting of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) is about a thesis paper by ex-chairman Wolfgang Gerhardt and criticism of federal chairman Guido Westerwelle .

Monday January 7, 2008

• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Chaos Computer Club applies for an injunction against the use of voting computers in the state elections in Hesse in 2008 .

Tuesday January 8, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : The debate about Roland Koch and his campaign topic juvenile delinquency is coming to a head. The Central Council of Jews holds the Prime Minister of Hesse close to NPD issues . The CDU man calls for drastic measures against " criminal young foreigners ". The General Secretary of the Central Council Stephan J. Kramer sees "the first signs that the NPD and other right-wing extremist groups in particular are using the debate".
• London / United Kingdom : Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga reveals to the broadcaster BBC that he is related to the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and is in contact. A negotiated solution with President Mwai Kibaki is on Odinga's agenda .

Wednesday January 9, 2008

• Braunschweig / Germany : In the process of the VW corruption affair , ex-CEO and chairman of the supervisory board Ferdinand Piëch was summoned as a witness before the regional court in Braunschweig. The corruption became known in July 2005. From the management of the Volkswagen Group , members of the works council have been bribed with financial benefits, luxury trips and services from prostitutes and their decisions have been corrupted. The accused are the personnel manager Klaus-Joachim Gebauer and the former head of the works council Klaus Volkert . Piëch is to be asked about his role in bonus payments .

Thursday January 10, 2008

Tata Nano

• Cologne / Germany : A report by the political magazine Monitor about the offsetting of the payments from the Riester pension against the basic security according to the Twelfth Book of the Social Security Code caused a sensation.
• New Delhi / India : At the New Delhi Auto Expo automobile exhibition, the Indian manager Ratan Tata from the Tata Group presents his Volkswagen - the Tata Nano . It is to be launched on the Indian car market from September 2008 for around 100,000 rupees (1700 €) initially with a quarter and later a whole million units. This makes it the cheapest microcar in the world.
• Nuremberg / Germany : A small polar bear cub in the Nuremberg zoo is generating similar media interest as the polar bear Knut in the Berlin zoological garden in January 2007 .
• Ramallah / Palestinian Territories : George W. Bush arrives on his first state visit to President Mahmud Abbas in his official residence, the Muqataa in Ramallah. Bush hopes that there will be a peace agreement on the Middle East conflict between Palestine and Israel while he is in office. To do this, Israel would have to give up its illegal settlements in the West Bank .

Friday January 11, 2008

• Bern / Switzerland : In a radio interview, ex-Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher announced that it was “rather impossible” that Blocher would be the successor to SVP President Ueli Maurer . In the evening, the Swiss People's Party announced that Toni Brunner will most likely be the successor to President Ueli Maurer.
• Munich / Germany : FC Bayern Munich surprisingly announced the commitment of the former national soccer coach Jürgen Klinsmann on July 1st, 2008.
• Potsdam / Germany : The first collective bargaining round in 2008 in the public service ended without any rapprochement between the trade unions and the federal government and municipalities.

Saturday January 12, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel receives the Federal Cross of Merit from Federal President Horst Köhler in Bellevue Palace for her outstanding services to the Federal Republic of Germany.
• Taipei / Taiwan : In the elections for the legislative yuan in the Republic of China (Taiwan) , the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP ) suffers a heavy defeat against the opposition and China- friendly national party Kuomintang (KMT), which holds 81 of 113 seats and thus a two-thirds majority in Legislative yuan has. The President Chen Shui-bian (DPP), who advocated the independence of Taiwan, called the election result the worst setback in the history of the DPP and resigned as party leader of the DPP with immediate effect.
• Wuppertal / Germany : The Bundestag administration is demanding back approx. 8.5 million euros in government grants from the Die Grauen party due to their donation scandal .

Sunday January 13, 2008

• Beverly Hills / United States : In the 65th ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards sit down as the best film productions of the past year Joe Wright's drama Atonement and Tim Burton's musical Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by. Due to the strike by the US scriptwriters, the winners were only announced at a press conference this time, and the usual gala dinner was waived.

Monday January 14, 2008

Álvaro Colom

• Guatemala City / Guatemala : Álvaro Colom Caballeros is sworn in as the first Social Democratic President of Guatemala.

Tuesday January 15, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : According to the Federal Government, for the first time since 1969 a balanced budget for Germany was achieved for the 2007 budget year and the national debt was not increased any further.
• Madrid / Spain : The Alliance of Civilizations has its first major forum in Madrid. Politicians such as Ban Ki-moon , Solana , Erdoğan and Zapatero meet there with representatives of foundations, youth organizations and the media to decide on how to fight extremism. Also, Paulo Coelho , Antonio Banderas , George Clooney and Angelina Jolie are expected.
• Rome / Italy : Due to protests by Italian students and professors, Benedict XVI. a planned visit by the Pope to La Sapienza University .
• United States : The United States slipping, according to the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Federal Reserve , Alan Greenspan , in a recession .

Wednesday January 16, 2008

Nokia factory in Bochum

• Berlin / Germany : In the north of Afghanistan , 250 soldiers from a rapid reaction force of the Bundeswehr are to relieve 250 soldiers from the Norwegian armed forces of the ISAF . This can also lead to fighting against the Taliban .
• Bochum / Germany : After the Finnish telecommunications group Nokia announced the imminent closure of its Bochum plant , North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers expressed his solidarity with the employees. He asked Nokia to reconsider its plans to move to a new industrial park in the Romanian municipality of Jucu ( Cluj county ).
• Jenin / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : During a military operation, Israeli soldiers near Jenin kill Walid Obeidi (38 years old), a leader of the radical Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad .
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : Israeli forces kill 19 Palestinians in a military operation in the Gaza Strip .

Thursday January 17, 2008

• Arnsberg / Germany : The administrative court of Arnsberg has declared the salaries of civil servants in North Rhine-Westphalia to be unconstitutional through numerous cuts since 2003. It will therefore apply to the Federal Constitutional Court for a specific regulatory review .
• Berlin / Germany : Due to the significant increase in energy and heating costs , Federal Building Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee ( SPD ) is calling for heating costs to be included and thus a significant increase in housing benefits . However, Federal Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück rejects an increase in the housing benefit.
• Espoo / Finland : The Nokia - Group rejects a call request of the NRW Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers on the future of the Bochum production from. This will make 2,300 Nokia employees and over 2,000 employees of temporary employment agencies and logistics companies unemployed.
• Cologne / Germany : The Cologne Administrative Court declares an observation by Bodo Ramelow , member of the Bundestag of the Die Linke faction, by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to be illegal.
• Mülheim / Germany : A British bomb from World War II was discovered during construction work in the city center. It will be defused on January 18 at around 10 a.m. 2,200 people were brought to safety, including from the main train station and an old people's home.
• United States : US researchers say they have cloned an embryo from skin cells for the first time .

Friday January 18, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) takes over the British railway company Laing Rail and thus enters into local rail passenger transport in the United Kingdom. a. on the outskirts of London. According to external estimates, DB is spending 170 million euros on the acquisition .
• Berlin / Germany : Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan ( CDU ) speaks out against therapeutic cloning on behalf of the Federal Government .
• Dortmund / Germany : The regional court declares increases in gas prices by RWE Westfalen-Weser-Ems AG from 2003-2005 to be ineffective.

Saturday 19th January 2008

• Bern / Switzerland : In a subsequently unauthorized demonstration against the World Economic Forum in Davos, around 200 people were arrested in addition to the organizer. A peaceful anti-WEF rally took place in St. Gallen, which was organized by the Greens, the Young Greens and the Young Socialist Party, among others.
• Dusseldorf / Germany : The Water fair boat launches on the grounds of Messe Dusseldorf with nearly 1,700 exhibitors from 57 countries.

Sunday January 20, 2008

• Accra / Ghana : The 26th African Football Championship 2008 will open with the game between Ghana and Guinea . It ends with a 2-1 victory for the hosts.
• Belgrade / Serbia : Presidential elections are held in Serbia; the incumbent Boris Tadić and the ultra-nationalist Tomislav Nikolić are given the greatest opportunities.
• Carson City / United States : In the primaries for the US presidency in Nevada could Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton won the most votes.
• Havana / Cuba : In the elections for the Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular , the Cuban parliament , the 8.4 million Cubans had exactly 614 members of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). The government expects a turnout of 95 percent. Fidel Castro was also elected , who has not been able to exercise his office as President for 18 months due to illness .
• Limburg / Germany : Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is introduced to his office as Bishop of Limburg .

Monday January 21, 2008

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany , Zurich / Switzerland : The DAX share index fell by more than 7% from 7,292.68 points to a daily low of 6,762.77 points. Due to the US real estate crisis and the banking crisis, bank stocks in particular are being sold. The values ​​of the listed companies drop by a total of more than 50 billion euros . Traders speak of "panic", "sell-off" and of a " black Monday " ( stock market crash ). The situation is similar for the Swiss Market Index (SMI) on the Swiss Exchange in Zurich, which closed with a loss of 5.26%. It falls from 7,691.98 points to 7,287.14 points.
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : In response to the ongoing rocket attacks by Hamas on the Israeli city of Sderot with Qassam rockets from the northern Gaza Strip, Israel initially closed the border crossings to the Gaza Strip and suspended fuel deliveries on Friday noon . After the only oil-fired power station near Gaza had to stop producing electricity on Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 8:00 p.m., there was initially a major power outage in the Gaza Strip. Israel and the Hamas government under Ismail Haniyya blamed each other for the blackout. Due to the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip and international protests, the Israeli government announced in the afternoon that it would open the borders and resume aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip. Electricity supplies, which make up 70 percent of the electricity demand, should also be resumed.
• Gelsenkirchen / Germany : In the collective bargaining for the approx. 85,000 employees of the steel industry in North Rhine-Westphalia , Lower Saxony and Bremen , IG Metall is demanding eight percent more, at least 100 euros per month.

Tuesday January 22, 2008

• Beverly Hills / United States : When the 2008 Oscar nominations were announced, the favorites were Ethan and Joel Coen's Western No Country for Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Be Blood , each with eight nominations. The Australian Cate Blanchett ( Elizabeth - The Golden Age and I'm Not There ) has received a double nomination in the categories of main and supporting actress, while the Austrian-German co-production to the Best Foreign Language Oscar The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky can make hopes .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : After the stock market crash on Monday, the Nikkei 225 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell by almost 6 percent and the BSE Sensex on the Bombay Stock Exchange by over 8 percent, so that trading in Bombay was suspended. In contrast, share prices on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and in Switzerland are already rising slightly again; the DAX stands at 6,750 points, the Swiss Market Index briefly fell below 7,000 points, but closed the day with a plus of 2.76%.
• Rome / Italy : After Justice Minister Clemente Mastella to withdraw his party UDEUR from the only party L'Unione has declared that controls the Cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi to a new government crisis.
• Strasbourg / France : The European Court of Human Rights decides that homosexual persons in the member states of the Council of Europe have the right to adopt a child . The ruling states that all laws and regulations that refuse to approve an adoption due to the homosexual orientation of the adopters violate Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Wednesday January 23, 2008

• Hanover / Germany : Before the state elections in Lower Saxony on January 27, 2008 ( info ), the two top candidates Christian Wulff ( CDU ) and Wolfgang Jüttner ( SPD ) compete against each other in a political television duel on the North German Broadcasting Corporation .
• Munich / Germany : The Federal Fiscal Court considers the new regulation of the distance flat rate from 2007 to be unconstitutional (proceedings VI R 17/07 + VI R 27/07). He has therefore forwarded the proceedings to the Federal Constitutional Court for review .

Thursday January 24, 2008

• Ankara / Turkey : In the headscarf dispute , the ruling AKP and the nationalist MHP have agreed to end the headscarf ban at universities. The AKP and MHP argue that millions of women wearing headscarves in Turkey should no longer be punished with a ban on education.
• Nairobi / Kenya : Kofi Annan , former Secretary General of the United Nations , brought the two rival candidates for the 2007 presidential elections, Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, back to a negotiating table.
• Paris / France : The major bank Société Générale has to admit speculative losses of 4.9 billion euros, which were caused by speculations by the small trader Jérôme Kerviel .
• Potsdam / Germany : In the second round of collective bargaining in the public sector , the Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, is offering an income increase of 5% in three stages with an increase in weekly working hours from 38.5 to 40 hours per week. The collective agreement should have a term of two years.

Friday 25th January 2008

• Gaza / Palestinian Autonomous Areas : The situation on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is chaotic. Palestinians blow holes in the border fortification and flee to Egypt, where they buy groceries.

Saturday 26th January 2008

• Columbia / United States : Barack Obama wins the second state with 55% in South Carolina in the primaries for the presidential election in the United States in 2008 , Hillary Clinton only has 27%, John Edwards 18%.

Sunday January 27, 2008

Andrea Ypsilanti

• Hanover / Germany : In the elections to the state parliament in Lower Saxony , the incumbent Prime Minister Christian Wulff is re-elected. According to the preliminary official final result , the CDU received 42.5 percent (48.3 percent 2003) (68 seats), the SPD 30.3 percent (33.4% - 48 seats), the FDP 8.2 percent (8.1 % - 13 seats), Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen 8.0 percent (7.6% - 12 seats) and Die Linke 7.1 percent (0% - 11 seats). This is the first time that the Left Party has succeeded in entering two West German state parliaments alongside Hesse.
• Munich / Germany : The Damische Knights Association has been criticized for its carnival parade on the international Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• Austria : Storm Paula raged in the east of Austria , with the damage reaching several times that of Hurricane Kyrill .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : In the elections to the state parliament in Hesse , the incumbent Prime Minister Roland Koch suffered a significant defeat of 12 percent. According to the preliminary official final result , the CDU received 36.8 percent (48.8 percent in 2003) (42 seats), the SPD 36.7 percent (29.1% - 42 seats), the FDP 9.4 percent (7.9 percent) % - 11 seats), Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen 7.5 percent (10.1% - 9 seats) and Die Linke 5.1 percent (0% - 6 seats). While the CDU Hessen had to admit the greatest loss with 12 percent, the SPD Hessen achieved its second worst result in Hessen despite an increase of 7.6 percent. The Left Party is to preliminary end result of moving into the Hesse state parliament succeeded with 5.1%. The formation of a government will be extremely difficult because both a black-yellow coalition under Prime Minister Roland Koch and a red-green coalition under Andrea Ypsilanti would be without a majority. Therefore, Andrea Ypsilanti would like to form a so-called traffic light coalition (red-yellow-green).

Monday January 28, 2008

• Traunstein / Germany : After the collapse of the Bad Reichenhall ice skating and swimming pool hall, the trial of four defendants begins today in the regional court .

Tuesday January 29, 2008

• Tallahassee / United States : Hillary Clinton and John McCain win the presidential primaries in Florida .

Wednesday January 30, 2008

• China : In China, a severe onset of winter plunges large parts of the country into snow chaos.
• New York / United States : Republican candidate Rudolph Giuliani ends his candidacy for president.

Thursday January 31, 2008

• Kenya : Again an opposition politician, David Anamoi, was murdered in Kenya during the ongoing unrest.
• Mediterranean : Damage to deep-sea internet cables in the Mediterranean paralyzes large parts of the Internet in the Middle East and South Asia .

See also

• Nekrolog January 2008 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

Web links

Vorarlberg in January 2008

Commons : January 2008  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published January 2008  - News

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Stern: Constitutional complaint filed (accessed March 29, 2016)
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6. ↑ admin.ch: New Year's Address 2008 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 1, 2008)  
7. ↑ OÖNachrichten: Beatles and oil as a cultural medium in 2008 ( Memento of 11 January 2008 at the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 2, 2008)
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14. ↑ Swiss television: Pakistan election only on February 18 (accessed on January 2, 2008)
15. ↑ Tagesanzeiger: Sri Lanka facing an uncertain future ( Memento from January 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ Spiegel: 16 US states sue the Bush administration (accessed January 3, 2008)
17. ↑ dbb tarifunion: Berlin labor court rejects VKA complaint ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 4, 2008)  
18. ↑ Tagesschau: Raids against critics of globalization were illegal ( Memento from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 4, 2008)
19. ↑ Focus Online: Garbage provokes violence (accessed on January 5, 2008)
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21. ↑ CCC: Chaos Computer Club takes legal action against voting computers in Hessen (accessed on January 7, 2008)
22. ↑ Die Welt: Zentralrat der Juden accuses Koch of being close to the NPD (accessed on January 8, 2008)
23. ↑ Spiegel: Kenya's opposition leader Odinga and Obama are cousins (accessed on January 8, 2008)
24. ↑ NDR: VW-Prozess: Uhl reports on "supplementary program" ( memento of the original from January 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 9, 2008)  
25. ↑ tagesschau.de: How does "Riestern" stay attractive for the poor? ( Memento of January 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Accessed January 10, 2008)
26. ↑ Süddeutsche: The "Volksauto" is here ( Memento from May 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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35. ↑ WDR: Party declares itself insolvent - gray panthers are to reimburse millions ( Memento from January 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 11, 2008)
36. ↑ Read out "Atonement" and "Sweeney Todd" as winners (accessed on January 14, 2008)
37. ↑ FAZ: Guatemala moves to the left (accessed on January 14, 2008)
38. ↑ Time: First balanced budget since 1969 (accessed January 15, 2008)
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40. ↑ World: Pope surrenders to student protest (accessed January 16, 2008)
41. ↑ Handelsblatt: Greenspan sees USA already in recession (accessed on January 15, 2008)
42. ↑ NZZ Online: 19 dead in Israeli advance in Gaza Strip (accessed on January 16, 2008)
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44. ↑ Focus Online - Tiefensee demands higher housing benefit (accessed January 17, 2008)
45. ↑ WELT - SPD ministers argue about increase in housing benefit ( memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 17, 2008)
46. ↑ Spiegel-Online - Nokia refuses to negotiate - also 200 jobs at DHL in danger (accessed January 17, 2008)
47. ^ WORLD - observation of left party politicians prohibited (accessed on January 17, 2008)
48. ↑ Embryo cloned from skin cells ( Memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 20, 2008)
49. ↑ tagesschau.de : Deutsche Bahn takes over British trains ( Memento from August 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
50. ↑ World - clone experiment in the USA sparked ethics debate (accessed January 19, 2008)
51. ↑ Reuters - Court: RWE has to repay customers money from price increases (accessed on January 18, 2008)
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53. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Around 120 people at an approved anti-WEF rally in St. Gallen (accessed on January 20, 2008)
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56. ↑ CNN: McCain, Clinton, Romney claim victories (accessed January 20, 2008)
57. ↑ WORLD - Cubans elect a new parliament ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 20, 2008)  
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59. ↑ ftd.de : Biggest crash since September 11th ( Memento from August 1st, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
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62. ↑ tagesschau.de : Israel temporarily opens its borders ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
63. ↑ ZDF-heute - Steel collective bargaining round: IG Metall threatens to strike  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 21, 2008)  
64. ↑ Spiegel Online: Mini-coalition partner leaves alliance - Prodi's government on the verge of collapse (accessed on January 21, 2008)
65. ↑ Euronews.net: Same-sex adoptive parents - Court of Justice criticizes France (accessed January 22, 2008)
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67. ↑ - Bundesfinanzhof - press release - from 23 August 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
68. ↑ tagesschau.de : Headscarf ban at universities should fall ( Memento from September 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
69. ↑ Stern - Kibaki and Odinga shake hands (accessed January 24, 2008)
70. ↑ World - Central Bank thinks fraudsters are computer genius - from January 24, 2008
71. ↑ tagesschau - employers offer five percent - from January 24, 2008 (tagesschau.de archive)
72. ↑ Time: 500,000 Palestinians flee to Egypt
73. ↑ n-tv: Obama far ahead of Clinton (accessed January 27, 2008)
74. ↑ ndr.de : Election victory for Wulff - Left in the state parliament ( Memento from January 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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77. ↑ t-online.de : Someone has to atone for our dead children ( Memento from January 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
78. ↑ CNN: Clinton to win Florida primary, but no delegates at stake (accessed February 1, 2008)
79. ↑ chinaheike.de: Snow chaos for the Chinese New Year 2008-02 February 2008
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81. ↑ Welt Online : Again opposition politicians killed in Kenya ( Memento from February 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
82. ↑ CNN: Internet failure hits two continents (accessed February 1, 2008)