Portal:Current events/April 2006
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- The Human Rights Protection Party wins Samoa's general election. The HRPP was already the ruling party, and its leader Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi the Prime Minister, but the party did better in the election than polls had indicated. (Radio NZ)
- After about 3 months captivity as a hostage in Iraq, American journalist Jill Carroll returns to American soil in Boston, Massachusets. (CNN)
- Marcos Pontes, Brazil's first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. (CNN)
- Dozens of students in Skyline High School in Longmont, Colorado, United States, are suspended after protesting against a new ban on flag waving on school grounds. The ban was a response to increasing racial tensions following immigration rallies. (ABC News)
- A small aircraft goes missing whilst in flight towards Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with 19 people onboard. It is found to have crashed near Saquarema, about 100 km from Rio. There are no survivors. (BBC)
- The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
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