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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2008.

Daily events

Wednesday October 1, 2008

Steve Fossett

• Germany : In Bochum , Duisburg , Essen , Frankfurt am Main , Munich and other cities, environmental zones are being introduced so that only low-emission vehicles can run in inner cities.
• Munich / Germany : The Bavarian Prime Minister Günther Beckstein ( CSU ) announces his resignation. The reason he cites the CSU's performance in the state elections in September , which caused his party to lose 32 seats.
• Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Right Livelihood Award winners include u. a. the Cologne doctor Monika Hauser , the journalist Amy Goodman and the Somali peace activist Asha Haji Elmi .
• Stuttgart / Germany : The United States Africa Command starts work in Stuttgart.
• Tbilisi / Georgia : The European Union's observer mission starts its work in Georgia just under two months after the start of the Caucasus conflict .
• Washington, DC / United States : The wreckage of the disappeared adventurer Steve Fossett's plane is found in California . Fossett is probably no longer alive.

Thursday October 2, 2008

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The regional court sentenced the former sports director of Hessischer Rundfunk Jürgen Emig to two years and eight months in prison for corruption .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Israeli writer David Grossmann receives the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 2008.
• Los Angeles / United States : The US film industry seeks a lawsuit against RealNetworks for illegally bypassing the DVD - copy protection on.

Friday 3rd October 2008

• Washington, DC / United States : The House of Representatives approves a package of laws to save the financial sector in the second attempt . The plan includes US $ 700 billion in aid .
• Tskhinvali / Georgia : Seven Russian soldiers die in a bomb explosion in the capital of South Ossetia , a breakaway region from Georgia .

Saturday 4th October 2008

• Rotenburg / Germany : The delegates of the SPD Hessen confirm the course of their state chairman Andrea Ypsilanti at a special party congress and give the green light for the start of coalition negotiations with the Greens and for tolerance talks with the left .
• Turkey : Armed fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), operating from northern Iraq, kill 15 Turkish soldiers in an attack on a border guard . 23 PKK militia officers are killed in a counterattack.

Sunday 5th October 2008

• Berlin / Germany : The government parties agree on a health insurance contribution of 15.5% of wages as of January 1, 2009 in the new health fund . In return, the intended contribution rate for unemployment to fall to 2.8%.
• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 M _W kills at least 65 people in the border area between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan .
• Mosul / Iraq : During a raid by the United States armed forces , a suicide bombing occurs in a residential building, killing at least 11 people. The Moroccan-born Swede Mohamed Moumou, who assumed a leading role in the al-Qaida terrorist organization under the battle name of Abu Kaswarah, also died in the act .

Monday October 6, 2008

Stefan Schumacher

Harald zur Hausen

Makoto Kobayashi

• Paris / France : The result of a sample taken from this year's Tour de France by road cycling professional Stefan Schumacher is announced. The blood doping agent CERA ( EPO ) was detected in the sample . The Gerolsteiner team is suspending Schumacher with immediate effect.
• Reykjavík / Iceland : In view of the global financial crisis , the Icelandic government is taking control of the entire national banking sector to avert national bankruptcy. The International Monetary Fund sends observers to the country threatened by financial collapse.
• Schwerin / Germany : The state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania elects the SPD state chairman and former Minister of Social Affairs Erwin Sellering as the state's new prime minister . His predecessor Harald Ringstorff (SPD) resigned for reasons of age.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine will be awarded this year to three scientists, to the German Harald zur Hausen for the discovery that human papillomaviruses can cause cervical cancer , and to the French Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for the discovery of the HI virus . The Nobel Prize in Physics will be this year in Japan -born American Yoichiro Nambu for his discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Japanese Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for their explanation of CP violation subatomic particles obtained.
• Vienna / Austria : The official final result of the National Council election on September 28th has been confirmed and results in two postponements of the mandate compared to the preliminary result. The SPÖ gives one mandate to the ÖVP and the FPÖ one to the Greens . The SPÖ remains the strongest party.

Tuesday October 7, 2008

• Bangkok / Thailand : The most serious riots so far since the beginning of the protests against the supremacy of the ruling party PPP are taking place in the capital . Two people are killed and more than 400 injured.
• Earthly sphere : Over the northern Sudan joins the asteroid 2008 TC3 as based on previous discoveries and observations from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , United States in the predicted, Earth's atmosphere one. It is the first time that such an event has been precisely calculated.
• Munich / Germany : The CSU politicians Thomas Goppel and Joachim Herrmann withdraw their candidacy for the office of Bavarian Prime Minister . This makes Horst Seehofer the last remaining candidate.
• Stuttgart / Germany: 20 professors from the University of Hohenheim publish the "Hohenheim Call for the Financial Crisis " with the subtitle: "Don't talk about an economic crisis!"

Wednesday October 8, 2008

Lukla Airport runway

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany , Washington, DC / United States : In a concerted action in the wake of the financial crisis, six leading monetary authorities around the world are lowering their key interest rates , including the European Central Bank , which has lowered its key interest rate by 0.5 points to 3.75% the Fed , which cut it by 0.5 points to 1.5%.
• London / United Kingdom : The British government under Gordon Brown submit to the Parliament before a decree by which the assets of the hard-hit financial crisis Icelandic bank Landsbanki to be frozen in the UK. The parliamentarians approve the plan later in the day.
• Lukla / Nepal : During the approach to the airport Lukla an airplane of the type DHC-6 had an accident . The crash killed 18 people, including twelve Germans .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the Japanese Osamu Shimomura and the Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein .
• Tokyo / Japan : The Nikkei 225 stock index suffers the biggest daily loss since October 20, 1987 with a loss of 9.4% . The other indices in Asia are also losing significantly.

Thursday October 9, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Bahn AG is postponing the IPO of DB Mobility Logistics , scheduled for October 27, for an indefinite period due to the uncertainty on the capital market .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Ahtisaari receives the award for his diplomatic efforts to overcome the conflict in Kosovo and the conflict in the Indonesian province of Aceh .

Friday October 10, 2008

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany , New York / United States : After strong price losses of the shares on the New York Stock Exchange and large losses of the Japanese Nikkei 225 share index , the German share index temporarily fell by 11.8% and was still trading at 7 at the end of the trading day % below the previous day's value. In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index opened with a minus of 8%.
• London / United Kingdom : The British military reports the loss of a hard drive with information on military personnel and applicants. In total, data on around 700,000 people are affected.

Saturday October 11, 2008

Jörg Haider

• Berlin / Germany : According to the police, around 30,000 people, 100,000 according to the organizers, are protesting at the "Freedom instead of fear" demonstration in Berlin against the data retention policy decided by the Bundestag and Bundesrat . You see in the data retention, against which a constitutional complaint has been pending since December 2007 , u. a. an invasion of their privacy .
• Berlin / Germany : The Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko defeats the Nigerian boxer Samuel Peter and is again world heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC) after an interruption of 1,400 days . In 2005, Vitali Klitschko resigned as the undefeated world champion of the WBC.
• Kailua-Kona / United States : The Ironman Hawaii ends with wins for Chrissie Wellington from the United Kingdom in the women and Craig Alexander from Australia in the men.
• Klagenfurt / Austria : As a result of today's accidental death of the Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider from the Alliance Future Austria party, his 1st deputy and party colleague Gerhard Dörfler will be in charge of government until the Landtag is re-elected .
• Münster / Germany : The Westphalian Peace Prize is awarded to the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and to the Lebanon Project of the Young Maltese . The eulogy over 380 invited guests holding German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( SPD ).
• Washington, DC / United States : After North Korea gave the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency unlimited access to the nuclear facilities of its nuclear weapons program , the US government removed the People's Republic from the list of terrorist states .

Sunday October 12, 2008

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan : The rocket launch takes place in the Soyuz TMA-13 mission .
• Austria : In succession to the fatally injured Carinthian governor Jörg Haider , Stefan Petzner takes over the provisional chairmanship of the BZÖ party .
• Pyongyang / North Korea : Following the deletion from the list of “ rogue states ” by the United States , the North Korean government has announced the shutdown of the Nyŏngbyŏn nuclear facility .
• Vilnius / Lithuania : The parliamentary elections and a national referendum on the closure of the Ignalina nuclear power plant take place.

Monday October 13, 2008

Paul Krugman

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany , New York / United States : Speculations about national aid packages to stabilize banks in response to the financial crisis are leading to a recovery on the stock exchanges . Some stock indices recorded the largest daily gains for many years, the DAX even the largest daily gain since its introduction 20 years ago. The DAX, the Dow Jones Industrial Average , the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 are each trading around 11% higher than at the start of trading.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Economics will be awarded to the American economist Paul Krugman this year .

Tuesday October 14, 2008

• Ottawa / Canada : The Conservative Party of Prime Minister Stephen Harper wins in the early general election add some mandates but does not reach the absolute majority. Stephen Harper wants the current minority government to continue.
• Tokyo / Japan : The Nikkei 225 share index posted 14.15%, the largest daily gain since its introduction 58 years ago .

Wednesday October 15, 2008

• Baku / Azerbaijan : The incumbent İlham Əliyev wins the presidential election in Azerbaijan.
• Brussels / Belgium : The President of the Commission of the European Union José Manuel Barroso announces an early meeting of the heads of government of the Group of Eight and a representative of the European Union to discuss ways out of the financial crisis .
• Cambodia , Thailand : Two Cambodian soldiers are killed in gun battles in the conflict over the demarcation of the border between Cambodia and Thailand near the Hindu temple Prasat Preah Vihear .
• Nassau County / United States : In the third presidential debate at Hofstra University , presidential candidates Barack Obama from the Democratic Party and John McCain from the Republican Party repeatedly lead Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher as Joe the plumber from the city of Holland in Ohio as an exemplary profiteer their intended economic policy.
• New York / United States : The American share index Dow Jones Industrial Average posted the second largest daily loss in points in its history after the known bad economic data.
• Austria : The Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl , third in the Tour de France 2008, admits doping with the EPO derivative CERA.

Thursday October 16, 2008

The Bundeswehr Air Force at Camp Marmal in Afghanistan

Frankfurt's financial district

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag approves the submission of an extension by 14 months as well as the extension of the Bundeswehr - deployment in Afghanistan as part of ISAF to mission. This enables the ISAF to request up to 1,000 additional Bundeswehr soldiers.
• Berlin / Germany : In the dispute over the fund to stabilize the German banks with a volume of 480 billion euros, the federal government and the prime ministers of the German states regulate the distribution of the financing: 65% of the burdens in the extra budget are to be assumed by the federal budget and 35% by the states. The contribution of the federal states may not exceed the limit of 7.7 billion euros. The Financial Market Stabilization Act is to be passed by both the Bundestag and the Bundesrat on October 17, and the fund will then be managed by a newly created Financial Market Stabilization Agency as an institution under public law at the Deutsche Bundesbank .
• Berlin / Germany : In the Heinersdorf district , the Khadija Mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , which has existed in Berlin since the 1920s, is inaugurated. The building is the first Islamic sacred building in the former East Berlin .
• Tokyo / Japan : The Nikkei 225 stock index suffers the biggest daily loss since October 20, 1987 with a minus of over 11% due to economic worries .

Friday October 17, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag , the Bundesrat and Federal President Horst Köhler pass the urgent law to stabilize the financial markets .
• Brussels / Belgium : In addition to the meeting of the 27 heads of state and government of the member states of the European Union on October 12th and 13th, the participants decide on closer cooperation between their states in the financial market and agree to establish an international financial market regulator.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
• New York / United States : The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) elects Japan , Mexico , Austria , Turkey and Uganda as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council from January 2009.

Saturday October 18, 2008

Wen Jiabao

• Beijing / China : The Chinese government under Wen Jiabao passes regulations that extend the freedom of foreign journalists to conduct research in China.

Sunday 19th October 2008

Franz Müntefering

• Berlin / Germany : Following the resignation of party chairman Kurt Beck early September, the delegates of the select SPD -Parteitags with Franz Muentefering a successor. In addition, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, was officially confirmed as the SPD's top candidate in the 2009 Bundestag election .
• Kwajalein / Marshall Islands : The NASA -Forschungssatellit Interstellar Boundary Explorer starts aboard a Pegasus - rocket from the Kwajalein Missile Range in the universe . Its aim is to provide insights into the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar matter .
• Beijing / China : The Chinese government adopts an agricultural reform to expand the private and market economy.
• Washington, DC / United States : Colin Powell , former Secretary of State in the George W. Bush Republican administration , is campaigning for the Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama in November's presidential election .

Monday October 20, 2008

• Jerusalem / Israel : The chairwoman of the Israeli Kadima party Tzipi Livni receives permission from President Shimon Peres to look for coalition partners for the formation of a government for another two weeks. So far, only the parties Kadima and Awoda have reached an agreement, too little for Livni to be elected Prime Minister .
• Kunduz / Afghanistan : Five children and two Bundeswehr soldiers are killed in a suicide attack by the Taliban on an ISAF unit in northern Afghanistan .
• Washington, DC / United States : Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke calls because of the hesitant behavior of investors in the financial market and because of the slow growth of the US economy further measures to entrepreneurs and consumers the uptake of loans easier. The stabilization of the financial system by the state is a first step to combat the economic slump, but no improvement in economic data is expected in the short term.

Tuesday October 21, 2008

Logo of the Bayerische Landesbank

Increase in the number of domiciled companies in Liechtenstein, which is on the “black list of tax havens” of the OECD

• Berlin / Germany : The annual study on relative poverty compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shows a sharp increase in the same in Germany.
• Imphal / India : 14 people die in a bomb attack in the Indian city of Imphal.
• Moscow / Russia : Iran , Qatar and Russia are planning to found a "Gas OPEC ". In addition to these three countries, Egypt , Algeria , Indonesia , Libya , Nigeria and Venezuela also expressed interest in such an organization. The new association is intended to replace the Forum for Gas Exporting Countries .
• Munich / Germany : Landesbank BayernLB is the first bank to take the decision to avail itself of assistance from the special assets of the federal government and the federal states under the Financial Market Stabilization Act .
• Paris / France : Government representatives from twenty countries discuss concerted action against “ tax havens ”. In advance, French Prime Minister François Fillon demanded for the time after the financial crisis : “Before the financial system can be rebuilt, the 'black holes' must disappear.” The German Federal Minister of Finance Peer Steinbrück complains that z. B. Switzerland “does not provide the necessary information” to prove tax evasion . Even Liechtenstein and Austria would show cooperation unwillingly.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Monetary Authority Federal Reserve based money market fund with 540 billion US dollars .

Wednesday October 22, 2008

Erwin Huber

PSLV-C11 launcher of the India Moon Mission

• Budapest / Hungary : The Hungarian Central Bank increases the key interest rate by 300 basis points in order to prevent an impending crisis in the national currency forint and to stop the flight of capital . The interest rate is now 11.5%.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : prosecutor and Federal Criminal search in connection with a million transfer to the since September insolvent bank Lehman Brothers several offices of KfW Bankengruppe . According to the public prosecutor's office, the KfW board members are suspected of breach of trust .
• Munich / Germany : Because of the billions in losses of the Landesbank BayernLB , the Chairman of the Board of Directors Erwin Huber ( CSU ) announces his resignation from the office of Bavarian Finance Minister .
• Sriharikota / India : From the Satish Dhawan Space Center , India starts its first lunar mission with the Chandrayaan-1 space probe .

Thursday October 23, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : The German pension insurance to 44.5 million euros and accident insurance to EUR 57.6 million at a subsidiary of since September insolvent US - bank Lehman Brothers have created. The funds are secured through the banks' deposit protection fund.
• Paris / France : As part of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces the establishment of a national sovereign wealth fund in front of the EU Parliament to prevent foreign investors from taking over strategically important companies with a weak equity base . This would make it possible to partially nationalize key French industries . The Bank Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is to manage the intervention fund.
• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament awards the Chinese civil rights activist Hu Jia the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought .

Friday October 24, 2008

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany , Tokyo / Japan : Fears that the financial crisis will worsen are intensifying again and are causing some stock indices to fall sharply. The Japanese Nikkei 225 lost 9% and the German share index temporarily lost 11%, but in the end it was only 5% weaker than at the beginning of trading. The accumulation of negative reports from the stock exchanges has led some media and economists to suspect that the “panic” will soon spread to private savers . The liquidity of financial market players vis-à-vis small investors is nominally secured by a declaration by the federal government .
• Beijing / China : The Asia-Europe meeting takes place.
• Zagreb / Croatia : The editor-in-chief of the National newspaper Ivo Pukanić is killed in a car bomb attack.

Saturday 25th October 2008

• Bilbao / Spain : The referendum on extensive autonomy in the Basque Country takes place.

Sunday October 26, 2008

Luis Durnwalder, leading candidate of the South Tyrolean People's Party

Timo Scheider

• Bolzano / Italy : In the election for the South Tyrolean state parliament , the South Tyrolean People's Party suffers heavy losses and just barely defends its absolute majority of the seats in parliament.
• Hockenheim / Germany : The German Timo Scheider wins the touring car race at the Hockenheimring and becomes DTM champion for the first time .
• Pakistan : The drone war of the American intelligence agency CIA , the terrorist organization Taliban should take, die, according to British journalists at least 17 Pakistanis. In the current month alone, US drones are said to have killed over 50 people in Pakistan . The US government rejects the use of ground troops in the region .
• Rostock / Germany : Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Holger Zinke are honored with the German Environment Prize.

Monday October 27, 2008

• Abu Kamal / Syria : A special unit of the United States' armed forces attack a farm in the Syrian border area with Iraq . According to Syrian sources, eight locals are killed.
• Munich / Germany : With 104 out of 184 votes, the Bavarian State Parliament elects the CSU chairman Horst Seehofer as the new Prime Minister .
• Tokyo / Japan : The Nikkei 225 share index falls to 7,162 points, its lowest level since 1982.

Tuesday October 28, 2008

• Brussels / Belgium : Against the background of the current financial crisis, the Commission of the European Union approves the German government's rescue package amounting to 500 billion euros to support banks in Germany.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The share price of Volkswagen AG swings upwards and helps the DAX share index to gain 11% for the day. This leads to criticism of the Deutsche Börse because the index is no longer representative. VW is temporarily the most expensive company in the world, ahead of the American company ExxonMobil . The reason for the increase is the announcement by Porsche AG that it has increased its stake in VW so that only about 6% of all VW shares are on the market.

Wednesday October 29, 2008

• Balochistan / Pakistan : At least 230 people died in an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 M _w in the southwestern province of Balochistan.
• Budapest / Hungary : The IMF , the European Union and the World Bank have pledged loans totaling 20 billion euros to Hungary to avert the threat of national bankruptcy as a result of the financial crisis .
• Malé / Maldives : Mohamed Nasheed of the Democratic Party wins the first democratic presidential election of the republic against Maumoon Abdul Gayoom .

Thursday October 30, 2008

Apron of Berlin-Tempelhof Airport

Ilse Aigner

• Berlin / Germany : Berlin-Tempelhof Airport will be closed on the night of October 31 after 85 years of operation. The last two aircraft to take off are a cherry bomber and a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m . You take off shortly before midnight in the direction of Schönefeld Airport .
• Berlin / Germany : The CSU politician Ilse Aigner is appointed as Horst Seehofer's successor as Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection .
• Gauhati / India : At least 80 people are killed in bomb attacks in the northeastern state of Assam .
• Goma / DR Congo : Tens of thousands of people are fleeing the city because of an offensive by Tutsi rebels.
• Lusaka / Zambia : In the elections in Zambia, Rupiah Banda of the Patriotic Front is elected as the new president with a narrow result of 40.09% compared to 38.13%.
• Munich / Germany : The CSU appoints 37-year-old Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg as the new Secretary General .
• Nuremberg / Germany : For October 2008, the Federal Employment Agency recorded less than three million unemployed as a monthly mean in Germany for the first time in 16 years . The unemployment rate is 7.2%.
• Pamplona / Spain : With the explosion of a car bomb at the private University of Navarre in the region Navarra least 15 people are injured. In addition, there is considerable property damage to the university buildings. The police blame the Basque terrorist organization ETA for the attack.

Friday October 31, 2008

• Berlin / Germany : Federal Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee comes under pressure in the dispute over bonus payments for the board of Deutsche Bahn AG . Tiefensee knew about the planned payments earlier than previously stated.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : After the capers of the Volkswagen AG share price , Deutsche Börse is setting new rules. According to this, a share can be removed from the index for a short time if the price fluctuates significantly and has a high weighting.

See also

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

Web links

Albania in October 2008

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Individual evidence

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8. ↑ Body parts found in Fossett's plane wreck. In: Spiegel Online . October 3, 2008, accessed May 24, 2018 . 
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10. ^ Sibling Scholl Prize for David Grossman. In: boersenblatt.net . October 2, 2008, accessed May 25, 2018 . 
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18. ^ Bomber strikes during US raid in Iraq, 11 killed. In: reuters.com . October 5, 2008, accessed May 25, 2018 . 
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23. ↑ The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 with one half to Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of "human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of "human immunodeficiency virus". (PDF) In: nobelprize.org . 2008, accessed on May 25, 2018 . 
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32. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008. In: nobelprize.org . October 8, 2008, accessed May 25, 2018 . 
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35. ↑ The 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. In: heise online . October 9, 2008, accessed May 25, 2018 . 
36. ↑ Nobel Peace Prize goes to arbitrators in the Indonesian civil war. In: epo.de, Klaus A. Boldt. October 10, 2008, accessed May 25, 2018 . 
37. ↑ DAX falls to its lowest level since summer 2005. In: Spiegel Online . October 10, 2008, accessed May 25, 2018 . 
38. ↑ tagesschau.de : Again the police are looking for a hard drive ( Memento from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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40. ↑ Laureus for Witali Klitschko. In: Austria . June 19, 2011, accessed June 10, 2019 . 
41. ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Women ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
42. ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Gentlemen ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
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44. ↑ wdr.de : Steinmeier pays tribute to Annan ( Memento from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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