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TOP FIVE 2008 HEADLINESlet start first with a good news
TOP 5 2008 HEADLINE
"BEIJING OLYMPICS"
The
2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the
Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 (except football, which started on August 6) to August 24, 2008. A total of 10,500 athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports, one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 Games.
[2] The 2008 Beijing Olympics marked the first occasion that either the
Summer or
Winter Games were hosted in China, making it the 22nd nation to do so. It also became the third time that Olympic events have been held in the territories of two different National Olympic Committees (NOC), as the equestrian events were being held in Hong Kong
he Games saw 43 new world records and 132 new Olympic records set.
A record 87 countries won a medal during the Games. Chinese athletes won 51 gold medals altogether, the second largest haul by a national team in a modern, non-boycotted Summer Games.
broke the record for most golds in one Olympics and for most career gold medals for an Olympian. Michael PhelpsUsain Bolt secured the traditional title "World's Fastest Man" by setting new world records in the 100m and 200m sprints.
TOP 4 2008 HEADLINE
"MELAMINE CONTAMINATION IN CHINA"
The
2008 Chinese milk scandal involving milk and is a food safety incident in the People's Republic of Chinainfant formula, and other food materials and components, which had been adulterated with melamine. With China's wide range of export food products, the scandal has affected countries on all continents. In November China reported an estimated 300,000 victims have been claimed;
six infants have died from kidney stones and other kidney damage, 860 babies still hospitalized.
Due to the many months before the scandal was exposed, media suggests that official figures are likely to be understated. Kidney stones in infants started being reported in several parts of China in the past two years. A number of yet to be officially acknowledged cases were reported on by the media. However, those deaths without an official verdict may be denied compensation.
On 1 December, Xinhua reported that the Ministry of Health revised number of victims to more than 290,000 and 51,900 hospitalised; authorities acknowledged receiving reports of 11 suspected deaths from melamine contaminated milk powder from provinces, but officially confirmed 3 deaths
TOP 3 2008 HEADLINE
"SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE"
Unfortunately China still took our third spot for this worst headline
THE nineteenth deadliest earthquake of all time, the
2008 Sichuan earthquake or "
Great Sichuan Earthquake", or most commonly in western reportage, the
Chengdu quake, which measured at 8.0 M
s and 7.9 M
w occurred at 14:28:01.42
CST province of China and by any name killed at least 69,000 less than three months before China hosted the world in the on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan2008 Summer Olympics.
Official figures (as of July 21, 2008 12:00
CST) state that 69,227 are confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing.
The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless,
though the number could be as high as 11 million.
Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest since the
1950 Chayu earthquake in the country, which registered at 8.5 on Richter magnitude scale.
TOP 2 2008 HEADLINE
"GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS"
The
global financial crisis of 2008–2009 is an ongoing major financial crisis.
It became prominently visible in September 2008 with the failure, merger or conservatorship of several large United States-based financial firms. The underlying causes leading to the crisis had been reported in business journals for many months before September, with commentary about the financial stability of leading U.S. and European investment banks, insurance firms and mortgage banks consequent to the subprime mortgage crisis.
Beginning with failures of large financial institutions in the United States, it rapidly evolved into a global credit crisis, deflation and sharp reductions in shipping
resulting in a number of European bank failures and declines in various stock indexes, and large reductions in the market value of equities (stock)
and commodities worldwide.
World political leaders and national ministers of finance and central bank directors have coordinated their efforts to reduce fears but the crisis is ongoing and continues to change, evolving at the close of October into a currency crisis with investors transferring vast capital resources into stronger currencies such as the yen, the dollar and the Swiss franc, leading many emergent economies to seek aid from the International Monetary Fund.
The crisis was triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis and is an acute phase of the
financial crisis of 2007–2008.
THE TOP 2008 HEADLINE
"BARACK OBAMA AS THE 44TH US PRESIDENT"
Barack Hussein Obama II is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005, until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency. The first African American elected President, he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, in an inaugural ceremony at the United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C.
On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The choice of the announcement site was symbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic "House Divided" speech in 1858. Throughout the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care.
During both the primary process and the general election, Obama's campaign set numerous fundraising records, particularly in the quantity of small donations.
On June 19, Obama became the first major-party presidential candidate to turn down public financing in the general election since the system was created in 1976
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the general election with 365 electoral votes to McCain's 173 and became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Obama proclaimed that "change has come to America".
On January 8, 2009, the joint session of the U.S. Congress met to certify the votes of the Electoral College for the 2008 presidential election. Based on the results of the electoral vote count, Barack Obama was declared to have been elected President of the United States and Joseph Biden was declared to have been elected Vice President of the United States
