Template:In the news
- South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon is appointed to succeed
Kofi Annan as United Nations Secretary-General.
- Bangladeshi banker and economist Muhammad Yunus (pictured) and the Grameen Bank win the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
- Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Major League Baseball pitcher Cory Lidle is killed when his private plane crashes into a building in Manhattan.
- The Inheritance of Loss, the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai, wins the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
- North Korea claims to have successfully detonated a nuclear weapon in an underground facility.
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