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• Jan. 1, 2006: Hundreds of thousands of revelers watch as the year 2006 is brought in with fireworks in New York's Times Square.
• Jan. 16, 2006: Liberia's new President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, right, is helped with a sash during her inauguration at the Capitol Building in Monrovia, Liberia.
• Feb. 1, 2006: Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona.
• March 27, 2006: Incoming Hamas Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh waves after addressing a parliament session in Gaza City.
• April 9, 2006: Police officers beat up an opposition party supporter as hundreds of supporters protested against King Gyanendra.
• May 15, 2006: Mount Merapi volcano releases huge cloud of hot ashes as seen from Srumbung village in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
• June 4, 2006: A streaker does a cartwheel during the Women's Singles quarter-final match between Maria Sharapova and Elena Dementieva on the Centre Court at Wimbledon.
• June 8, 2006: U.S. soldier at press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, displays an image to show the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in an airstrike.
• June 30, 2006: Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi pretends to play a guitar during their tour of Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tenn.
• July 14, 2006: Smoke rises from a bridge as it is targeted by an Israeli air raid, in the Zahrani region, Lebanon.
• Aug. 13, 2006: Fidel Castro and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hold hands as Castro recuperates from surgery in Havana, Cuba.
• Sept. 20, 2006: Bindi Irwin, daughter of environmentalist personality Steve Irwin, reads out a speech about her father at a memorial service at Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Australia.
• Sept. 20, 2006: President Hugo Chavez holds Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky while addressing the 61st session of the U.N. General Assembly.
• Oct. 2, 2006: Body is carried from a schoolhouse where a gunman killed five Amish girls in Nickel Mines, Pa.
• Nov. 5, 2006: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein yells at the court as he is found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to die by hanging.
• Dec. 11, 2006: A woman touches the coffin of former military ruler Gen. Augusto Pinochet at the Military School in Santiago, Chile.
• Dec. 19, 2006: Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner, is kissed by Donald Trump after a news conference in New York City; Conner, who had come under criticism amid rumors she had been frequenting bars while underage, will be allowed to keep her title.
• Dec. 20, 2006: Christmas display off Gapter Street in Boulder, Colo., captures the essence of a major snowstorm that blew across Colorado.
• Dec. 25, 2006: Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful gathered outside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.