In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave up the title of Patriarch of the West.

The pope previously used the title Patriarch of the West, but this title was dropped from use in 2006 a move which caused some concern within the Orthodox Communion as, to them, it implied wider papal jurisdiction.

On 26 April 2006 Lara was reappointed the captain of the West Indies cricket team for the third time.

In May 2006, Lara led the West Indies to successful One-Day series victories against Zimbabwe and India.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

The 2006 season started with some promise ; the Rockies were 44 – 43 in the first half of the season and were in contention in the NL West for much of the season.

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* 2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.

The Israeli Government-approved Israeli West Bank barrier | barrier route as of July 2006

Map of Israeli settlements ( magenta ) in the West Bank as of 2006

* 2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.

The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout after the match finished on 3 – 3.

At the end of the 1998 – 99 season, second tiers were added to the East and West Stands, raising capacity to around 67, 000, and between July 2005 and May 2006, 8, 000 more seats were added via second tiers in the north-west and north-east quadrants.

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

A barrier gate at Bil ' in, West Bank, 2006

The Padres started April 2006 with a 9 – 15 record and were stuck in the cellar of the NL West.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* 2006 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated by West Coast 12. 13 ( 85 ) to 12. 12 ( 84 )

Until 2006, Togo was very much a minor force in world football, but like fellow West African nations such as Senegal, Nigeria and Cameroon before them, the Togolese national team finally qualified for the World Cup.

The Rangers 2006 season ended with a disappointing 80 – 82 record and a third-place finish in the West.

* Helena-West Helena, Arkansas was formed in 2006 by the merger of the previous cities of Helena and West Helena.

Curry reprised this role in London's West End at the Palace Theatre, where Spamalot opened on 16 October 2006.

An online version of the latest edition can be accessed through the paid Westlaw legal information service and as of late 2006, West Academic has published Black's Law Dictionary Digital, 8th edition ( ISBN 9780314176103 ) which has toolbars that integrate with Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

( West Group, 2006 ), Bryan A. Garner, editor, ISBN 0-314-15862-6

* 1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor ( d. 2006 )

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

In 2006, 615, 549 registered participants played Australian football in Australia.

* Bloody Sunday, a 2006 radio programme on Australian network Triple J

It was proposed by the Beazley led Australian Labor Party opposition in a 2006 press release, with the intention of protecting children who were vulnerable due to claimed parental computer illiteracy.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

* 2006 – Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey ( b. 1914 )

According to the Australian government's June 2006 publication of prison statistics, Aborigines make up 24 % of the overall prison population in Australia.

The Fiji Times reported on 14 September 2006 that Prime Ministers Qarase and Howard had discussed possible Australian assistance for the reform of Fiji's sugar industry, with Howard reported receptive to giving aid.

* 1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion ( d. 2006 )

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

* 1933 – Ed Casey, Australian politician ( d. 2006 )

Hewitt was defeated in the second round of the 2006 Australian Open by Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina.

In 2006, Australian film director Peter Clifton proposed production of The Bloody Ashes, a film on the bodyline series.

In February 2006, the Mauritanian government denounced amendments to an oil contract made by former leader Maaouiya Ould Taya with Woodside Petroleum, an Australian company.

* 2006 – Richard Carleton, Australian reporter ( b. 1943 )

* 1928 – Pro Hart, Australian artist ( d. 2006 )

In 2006, Fraser launched a " scathing attack " on the Howard Liberal government, attacking their policies on areas such as refugees, terrorism and civil liberties, and that " if Australia continues to follow United States policies, it runs the risk of being embroiled in the conflict in Iraq for decades, and a fear of Islam in the Australian community will take years to eradicate ".

* 2006 – Minnie Pwerle, Australian Aboriginal artist

* 2006 – Kurt von Trojan, Australian author ( b. 1937 )

The MX-5 has won many awards including Wheels Magazine's Car of the Year for 1989 and 2005 ; Sports Car Internationals " best sports car of the 1990s " and " ten best sports cars of all time "; 2005 – 2006 Car of the Year Japan ; and 2005 Australian Car of the Year.