It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.

British AS-90 s firing in Basra, Iraq, 2006.

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

File: British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006. jpg | British Museum Reading Room

Some tracks and demos from the album ( initially planned for release in 2008 ) were leaked on the internet in 2006, and a documentary entitled The Return of Courtney Love, detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network in the fall of that year.

The British arts and music festival Bestival cancelled its planned clown theme in 2006 after many adult ticketholders contacted the organizers expressing a fear of clowns.

On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was photographed by The Mail on Sunday playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood.

* John Crank ( 1916 – 2006 ), British mathematical physicist

* 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 )

Other notable British Asian films from this period include My Son the Fanatic ( 1997 ), Ae Fond Kiss ... ( 2004 ), Mischief Night ( 2006 ), Yasmin ( 2004 ) and Four Lions ( 2010 ).

* 1916 – John Crank, British mathematician ( 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 ).

* 2006 – Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur ( b. 1922 )

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.

Allidina Visram school in Mombasa, pictured above in 2006, was the location of the British " Kilindini " codebreaking outpost during World War II

According to British war cabinet minutes released in 2006, Winston Churchill advocated Himmler's assassination.

Within a year, in April 2006, Harry completed his officer's training and was commissioned as a Cornet in the Blues and Royals, a regiment of the Household Cavalry in the British Army.

* 1915 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister ( d. 2006 )

In December 2006, Major led calls for an independent inquiry into Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq, following revelations made by Carne Ross, a former British senior diplomat, that contradict Blair's case for the invasion.

* Alain Le Pichon, China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. And the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 ( Oxford ; New York: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2006 ).

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

In the Doctor Who Annual 2006, a section by Russell T Davies says that during the Time War, the Time Lords used Bowships ( used against the Great Vampires in an ancient war ), Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms ( war machines first mentioned in the Virgin New Adventures novel " Damaged Goods ", written by Davies ).

The band continued to tour throughout the fall of 2006 stopping in Montreal, the Virgin Festival on the Toronto Islands, Atlantic City's House of Blues, The University of Vermont in Burlington, their hometown Oklahoma City, the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas, and New York City, NY as well as several other cities.

In late 2005 / early 2006, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic came forward about their involvement in large price-fixing schemes for cargo and passenger surcharges in which 21 airlines were involved since 2000 ( amongst which were British Airways, Korean Air, and Air France-KLM ).

On 21 September 2006, Branson pledged to invest the profits of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains in research for environmentally friendly fuels.

On 4 July 2006, Branson sold his Virgin Mobile company to UK cable TV, broadband, and telephone company NTL / NTL: Telewest for almost £ 1 billion.

In 2006, Branson formed Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

In June 2006, a tip-off from Virgin Atlantic led US and UK competition authorities to investigate price-fixing attempts between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways.

Branson is a Star Trek fan and named his new spaceship VSS Enterprise in honour of the famous Star Trek ships, and in 2006, reportedly offered actor William Shatner a ride on the inaugural space launch of Virgin Galactic.

In June 2006, a tip-off from Virgin Atlantic led US and UK competition authorities to investigate alleged price-fixing between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways over passenger fuel surchages.

In April 2010, a tip-off from Cathay Pacific led to the UK Office of Fair Trading investigating alleged price-fixing between Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific on flights to Hong Kong between 2002 and 2006.

In March 2006, Telewest merged with fellow cable telecom company NTL, and created ' NTL: Telewest ', which then also merged with Virgin Mobile and Virgin. net in June 2006, creating the UK's first " quadruple play " telecom provider, offering television, internet, landline phone and mobile phone services.

Brussels Airlines formed in 2006 as a result of a merger between SN Brussels and Virgin Express.

In March 2006, NTL merged with fellow cable telecom company Telewest, and created ' NTL: Telewest ', which then also merged with Virgin Mobile and Virgin. net in June 2006, creating the UK's first " quadruple play " telecom provider, offering television, internet, landline phone and mobile phone services.

: 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.

On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.

It was announced on 24 January 2006 that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would visit Fiji that April to open the China-Pacific Islands Countries Economic Development & Cooperation Forum Ministerial Conference 2006 at Sofitel Fiji Resort in Nadi, a conference of economic and trade ministers from Pacific island countries.

After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have come back in the last few years, with unemployment down to 5 % in mid-1998, and holding below 3 % since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.

Norse mythology, Sjódreygil and the Norns Faroe Islands | Faroese stamps 2006

* 2006 – 2008, John Spoor Broome Library, California State University Channel Islands, United States.

In January 2006 the population of Normandy ( including the part of Perche which lies inside the Orne département but excluding the Channel Islands ) was estimated at 3, 260, 000 with an average population density of 109 inhabitants per km², just under the French national average, but rising to 147 for Upper Normandy.

Mount Cleveland ( Alaska ) | Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska photographed from the International Space Station, May 2006.

In 2006, the island was used as the location for the tribal council in the US TV program Survivor: Cook Islands.

Then, not long afterwards, Shipwrecked returned again, with Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2006.

In late 2006, the now defunct airline Flyglobespan began daily flights from John Lennon Airport to Tenerife South Airport, the Canary Islands, Spain, and the airport's first long haul flights to John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport near Toronto, Canada, and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, in the United States.

Relations with Australia were strained in 2006 when Prime Minister Michael Somare was accused of having facilitated Julian Moti's escape to the Solomon Islands.

Axis & Allies: Battle of the Bulge ( 2006 ) focused on the Battle of the Bulge in Europe while Axis & Allies: Guadalcanal ( 2007 ) focused on the Solomon Islands Campaign in the Pacific.

Kirsty Jones set a distance record for a kiteboard when she travelled, crossing solo from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to Tarfaya, Morocco, in about nine hours on 13 May 2006.

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Finland )# 2006 coinage | 150th Anniversary of Demilitarisation of Åland Islands commemorative coin

* The 150th Anniversary of Demilitarisation of Åland Islands was celebrated in Finland by issuing a high value commemorative coin, the € 5 150th Anniversary of Demilitarisation of Åland Islands commemorative coin, minted in 2006.

This Canary Islands Stonechat is now considered Endangered, as construction, mainly tourism-related, encroaches upon the best habitat ( Illera et al., 2006 ).

* 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake

* 2006 Kuril Islands tsunami

* USGS Map showing location of Magnitude 8. 3 Earthquake 46. 616 ° N, 153. 224 ° E Kuril Islands region, November 15, 2006 11: 14: 16 UTC

* 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake