Editing 2008 (section)

==Events==
*January 1 - [[Yaser Abdel Said]] murders his two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, while giving them a ride in his taxi cab in Irving, Texas, then goes on the run.
*February 14 - [[Steven Kazmierczak|Northern Illinois University shooting]]
*February 24 - [[Fidel Castro]] steps down as President of Cuba, though he retains his position as First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Cuba]].
*March 6 - [[Alaa Abu Dhein|Mercaz HaRav massacre]]
*April 6 - [[Allan Schoenborn]] kills his three children, Kaitlynne, Max and Cordon, and then writed "forever young" with soy sauce in a kitchen wall.
*April 10 - [[Femen]] is founded.
*April 19 - Elisabeth Fritzl manages to escape from her 24-year imprisonment by her father [[Josef Fritzl]] after Josef agrees to let Elisabeth take her critically ill infant daughter (fathered by Josef) to the hospital to seek medical care. Josef is subsequently taken into custody after Elisabeth tells authorities about what happened to her.
*April 21 - [[Kevin Storm]] is sentenced to 23 months in prison for possession of [[child pornography]].
*May 7 - [[Dmitry Medvedev]] is elected President of Russia, succeeding [[Vladimir Putin]].
*May 15 - End of the Iraqi Civil War.
*June 8 - Akihabara massacre: [[Tomohiro Kato]] crashed a rented truck into a crowd and stabbed random passerby, resulting in 7 deaths and 10 injured.
*June 30 - [[Jeffrey Epstein]] faces his first criminal conviction for engaging in child prostitution. He serves 13 months in federal custody.
*July 14 - [[Omar al-Bashir]] is indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for [[war crimes]], [[genocide]], and [[crimes against humanity]] committed as part of the [[Darfur Genocide]], making him the first sitting head to state to be indicted by the ICC.
*July 21 - [[Radovan Karadžić]], the first President of Republika Srpska, is arrested in Belgrade, Serbia after spending 12 years as a fugitive.
*August 15 - [[Hissène Habré]] is sentenced to death ''in absentia'' for [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]].
*August 17 - [[Morné Harmse]] stabs four people in his school with a katana, resulting in one death and three injuries.
*August 18 - [[Pervez Musharraf]] resigns as President of Paksitan.
*September 12 - [[Al-Qaeda]] perpetrates a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]] at a police station in Dujail, Iraq, killing 31 people and injuring 60.
*September 23 - [[Matti Saari]] commits the Kauhajoki [[School Shooting|school shooting]] in Kauhajoki, Western Finland; killing 10 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
*October 21 - [[Ruben "Doc" Cavazos]] is arrested for racketeering.
*November 26 to 29 - The [[2008 Mumbai attacks]] take place in Mumbai where Islamic terrorist group [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] carry out coordinated shooting and bombing attacks that kill 166 people.
*December 11 - The skeletal remains of 2-year old Caylee Anthony are found in a wooded area near her home, approximately seven months after she is last seen. Her mother, [[Casey Anthony]], is arrested and charged with her [[murder]].
*December 11 - [[Bernard Madoff]] is arrested in connection to a Ponzi scheme.
*December 23 - A group of Army officers seize power in Guinea following the death of President [[Lansana Conté]]. They subsequently establish a military junta called the [[National Council for Democracy and Development]] to govern the country.
*December 24 - [[Bruce Jeffrey Pardo|Covina massacre]]
*December 27 - Israeli Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]] launches Operation Cast Lead to try and force [[Hamas]] out of Gaza.