2008 IN FRACTION OF LIFE & DEATH A
Australian actor Heath Ledger died 22 January 2008
Finland’s Harri Olli soars through the air during the large hill ski jumping FIS World Cup event in Liberec, Czech Republic on 9 February 2008
A blaze at the historic Namdaemun Gate in South Korea on 11 February 2008 An arsonist started the fire destroying the gate, the oldest wooden structure in Seoul dating back to 1398
Dutch ship Artemis ran aground in high winds on a beach in Brittany France on 10 March 2008
The Argungu fishing festival in Nigeria on 15 March 2008
Plane wreckage at Goma Democratic Republic of Congo on 14 April 2008 – 40 people were killed – most of them on the ground in the marketplace where the plane crashed
Wounded Palestinians after a news reporter’s car was hit by an Israeli missile in the Gaza Strip on 16 April 2008
The body of a child recovered from the rubble of a destroyed house after an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq – 29 April 2008
Lightning above the Chaiten volcano in Chile on 2 May 2008
Beichuan Sichuan Province China earthquake – 15 May 2008
US Marine in Afghanistan on 18 May 2008
The Space Shuttle Discovery – 31 May 2008
Darfur refugee – 5 June 2008
Cedar Rapids Iowa floods – buildings and debris floating in the Cedar river against a railroad bridge on 14 June 2008
Kerby Brown rides a huge wave in Western Australia – 6 July 2008
AC Milan player Ronaldinho of Brazil – 17 July 2008
Police carries a child away during a gun battle in Tijuana Mexico – 17 August 2008
Drummers perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics on 8 August 2008
A convoy of Russian troops makes its way through the Caucasus mountains toward the armed conflict between Georgian troops and separatist South Ossetian troops on 9 August 2008
Floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna in Haiti on 3 September 2008
A single home is left standing among debris from hurricane Ike in Gilchrist Texas on 14 September 2008
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama at a rally in St Louis Mo. 18 October 2008
Palestinian militants lay near their mortar launcher after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on 16 November 2008
21 year old Ajmal Kasab, one of ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai, India on 26 November 2008 killing over 170 people
Duncan Zuur of the Netherlands rides a wakeboard across flooded Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy - 2 December 2008
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