* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

* 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States ; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.

Externally, political activity on the part of Ásatrú organizations has surrounded campaigns against alleged religious discrimination, such as the call for the introduction of an Ásatrú " emblem of belief " by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to parallel the Wiccan pentacle granted to the widow of Patrick Stewart in 2006.

In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Aviation Nation 2006 at Nellis Air Force Base, United States

The software, maintained by AOL, Inc., at one time had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States ( with 52 % of the total reported as of 2006 ).

Both the missile and the aircraft were used by the United States Navy and are now retired, the AIM-54 Phoenix in 2004 and the F-14 in 2006.

** Langer Eugen, since 2006 the centre of the United Nations Campus, formerly housing the offices of the members of the German parliament

* A 2006 study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development indicates 56. 5 % of Belarus ' population were internet-users.

In May 2006, six employees of the company were arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.

In 2006, the primary economic concerns focused on: high national debt ($ 9 trillion ), high non-bank corporate debt ($ 9 trillion ), high mortgage debt ($ 9 trillion ), high financial institution debt ($ 12 trillion ), high unfunded Medicare liability ($ 30 trillion ), high unfunded Social Security liability ($ 12 trillion ), high external debt ( amount owed to foreign lenders ) and a serious deterioration in the United States net international investment position ( NIIP ) (- 24 % of GDP ), high trade deficits, and a rise in illegal immigration.

These issues have raised concerns among economists and unfunded liabilities were mentioned as a serious problem facing the United States in the President's 2006 State of the Union address.

More recently, it has been suggested that both the tests of skill and diligence should be assessed objectively and subjectively ; in the United Kingdom, the statutory provisions relating to directors ' duties in the new Companies Act 2006 have been codified on this basis.

For example, in the United Kingdom, the Companies Act 2006 requires directors of companies " to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole " and sets out the following six factors regarding a director's duty to promote success:

* American Buffalo ( coin ), a one-ounce 24-karat gold bullion coin introduced by the United States Mint on 22 June 2006

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

In April 2006, the Chadian rebel group United Front for Democratic Change, which is based in Darfur used C. A. R.

The growth of exports in 2006 was mainly caused by a strong increase in sales to the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan.

In 2003, the NZBS further extended restrictions to preclude permanently donors who had received a blood transfusion in the United Kingdom since January 1980, and in April 2006, restrictions were further extended to include the Republic of Ireland and France.

The decrease in consumption in other applications was made up by a growing demand of cadmium in nickel-cadmium batteries, which accounted for 81 % of the cadmium consumption in the United States in 2006.

For instance, since 2006, annual Canada Day celebrations have been held at Trafalgar Square — the location of Canada House — in London, England ; initiated by the Canadian community in the United Kingdom, endorsed by the Canadian High Commission, and organised by a private promotions company, the event features Canadian performers and a demonstration of street hockey, among other activities.

In the United Kingdom, DSG ( Dixons ), the largest retailer of domestic electronic equipment, reported that CRT models made up 80 – 90 % of the volume of televisions sold at Christmas 2004 and 15 – 20 % a year later, and that they were expected to be less than 5 % at the end of 2006.

The city has been ranked as high as the second-best place to live in the United States by Money Magazine's annual list, but has not been ranked in the top 100 since 2006.

An example is the airline industry in the United States ; in 2006 over half the industry's seating capacity was on airlines that were in Chapter 11.

In fact, the United States Mint, in anticipation of this practice, implemented new interim rules on December 14, 2006, subject to public comment for 30 days, which criminalized the melting and export of pennies and nickels.

United States 72. 7 %, United Kingdom 3. 2 %, Belgium 2. 4 % ( 2006 )

United States 46. 9 %, Venezuela 8. 4 %, Colombia 6. 3 %, Mexico 5. 7 % ( 2006 )

The Dominican Republic exported $ 4. 5 billion to the United States in 2006, equaling some 75 % of its export revenues.

She also founded The Doris Day Animal League, which merged into The Humane Society of the United States in 2006.

* 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

Kristin King and Sarah Parsons were members of the United States ' 2006 bronze medal-winning ice hockey team.

In April 2006, Margaret Witt, a major in the United States Air Force who was being investigated for homosexuality filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the grounds that DADT violates substantive due process, the Equal Protection Clause, and procedural due process.

In 2006, according to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ), VRS calls averaged two million minutes a month.

Beef extract was eventually reintroduced as a key Bovril ingredient in 2006, after the European Commission lifted its ban on the export of Britain's beef products ; it was only at this point that the manufacturer stated explicitly that this had been the main reason for beef's removal.

The European Commission has proposed to assist Croatia's efforts to join the European Union with 245 million euros from PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD aid programs over the course of 2005 and 2006.

In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission ( IMC ) blamed the CIRA for planting four bombs in Northern Ireland during the final quarter of 2005, as well as several hoax bomb warnings.

In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission claimed in a report on paramilitary activity that two groups, styling themselves as Saoirse na hÉireann and Óglaigh na hÉireann, had been formed after a split in the Continuity IRA.

In February 2006, a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission that included Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary during the Reagan administration, William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, and professors from the United States Military Academy released their assessment of the GAO's analysis of the cost of DADT released a year earlier.

In September 2006, the European Parliament issued the European Commission to create urban environment policies to prevent and eliminate dirt, litter, graffiti, animals ' excrement and excessive noise from domestic and vehicular music systems in European cities, along with other concerns over urban life.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

* Commission Reports: A National Dialogue: The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, United States Department of Education, 2006.

* Spellings, Margaret, " A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U. S. Higher Education ", A Report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, September 2006.

However, the Twins continued their efforts to relocate, pursuing litigation against the Metropolitan Stadium Commission and obtaining a state court ruling that they were not obligated to play in the Metrodome after the 2006 season.

In May 2006, the International Methodist-Catholic Dialogue Commission completed its most recent report, entitled " The Grace Given You in Christ: Catholics and Methodists Reflect Further on the Church ," and submitted the text to Methodist and Catholic authorities.

Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ), 2006.

In 2006, the Nevada Gaming Commission began working with Las Vegas casinos on technology that would allow the casino's management to change the game, the odds, and the payouts remotely.

Eastwood and Shriver supported a 2006 lawsuit to block the toll road and urged the California Coastal Commission to reject the project, which it duly did in February 2008.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights ( UNCHR ) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006.

The Commission held its final meeting in Geneva on March 27, 2006 and was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in the same year.

The Commission held its final meeting in Geneva on March 27, 2006.

The United Nations Human Rights Council assumed responsibility for the Sub-Commission when it replaced the Commission on Human Rights in 2006.

Under the provisions of the Charities Act 2006, it is now an excepted charity, and fully registered with the Charities Commission, and is now one of the 100 largest charities in the UK.

In 2006, the United States Commission on Civil Rights reviewed the Justice Department Preclearance record and found that the percentage of DOJ objections to submitted changes has declined markedly throughout the 40-year period of the Act: from 5. 5 percent in the first period to 1. 2 percent in the second, and to 0. 6 percent in the third.

In 1978, the International Commission of Jurists estimated that more than 100, 000 Ugandans had been murdered during Amin's reign of terror ; some authorities place the figure as high as 300, 000 — a statistic cited at the end of the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland, which chronicled part of Amin's dictatorship.