* 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 October 2006, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a governmental department, authored a document: " Understanding the Future: Priorities for England's Museums ".

Following the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 and its extensive and complex rewriting of the Firearms Act, the Minister for Justice at the time ( Micheal McDowell ) instituted the Firearms Consultation Panel, a panel chaired by the Minster through the Principal Officer of the Department of Justice's Firearms Section, which comprised representatives from the Gardai, Department of Sport, firearms dealers, all the national governing bodies of the shooting sports, and other stakeholders in the Firearms Act ( such as insurance providers ).

This panel met from 2006 through 2011 to attempt to implement the changes in the 2006 Act ( and later the 2007 and 2009 Acts ) where possible, and to attempt to alter the Acts where they were unworkable by providing expert advice to the Department in the drafting of new legislation amendments.

On June 10, 2006, the Department of Defense reported that three Guantanamo Bay detainees committed suicide.

On September 6, 2006, President George W. Bush announced that alleged combatants held by the CIA would be transferred to the custody of Department of Defense, and held at Guantanamo Prison.

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

On September 29, 2006, ICANN signed a new agreement with the United States Department of Commerce ( DOC ) that moves the private organization towards full management of the Internet's system of centrally coordinated identifiers through the multi-stakeholder model of consultation that ICANN represents.

The context of ICANN's relationship with the U. S. government was clarified on September 29, 2006 when ICANN signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Department of Commerce ( DOC ).

* Department for Constitutional Affairs ( 2006 )

In July 2006, the Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA ) / Veterans Health Administration ( VHA ) was the recipient of the Innovations in American Government Award presented by the Ash Institute of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for its extension of DHCP into the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture ( VistA ).

Two more Australian personnel were seconded as advisers on logistics and personnel matters in August 2006, while an Australian bureaucrat from the Department of Defence is posted to the PNG defence department.

On October 25, 2006, the Puerto Rico State Department conferred a certificate of Puerto Rican citizenship to Juan Mari Brás.

While the Singapore Department of Statistics reports overall population figures for Singapore ( 4. 48 million in 2006 ), as a matter of policy, it only provides more detailed demographic breakdown analysis for the approximately 80 % of the population who are Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents ( collectively termed ' residents ').

* June 2006 — Department of Defense Instruction ( DoDI ) 1322. 26 Requiring DoD Use of SCORM

Figures released for the period 2005 – 2006 by UK Government ( Department of Health ) show that non-obstetric ultrasound examinations constituted more than 65 % of the total number of ultrasound scans conducted.

The Franklin Fellows Program was established in 2006 by the DoS to bring in mid-level executives from the private sector and non-profit organizations to advise the Department and to work on projects.

A 1973 United States Department of State document, declassified in 2006, concluded " The Khartoum operation was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval of Yasser Arafat.

On 1 June 2006 the US Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $ 363 million contract with Cangene Corporation for 200, 000 doses of Heptavalent Botulinum Antitoxin over five years for delivery into the Strategic National Stockpile beginning in 2007.

In May 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland the United Nations Committee against Torture released a report, which, along with calling on the United States to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and criticizing interrogation techniques, took note of the " limited investigation and lack of prosecution " in connection to accusations of torture in Areas 2 and 3 of the Chicago Police Department.

The result of the consultation and final proposals were published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 13 July 2006.

The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at 17th in the line of succession to the presidency ( the position was last until the addition of the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2006 ).