2006-2010

2006

2006 – On July 11, bombs planted on the train system in Mumbai exploded, killing 209 people.

2006 – North Korea conducted its first nuclear test on October 9.[8] This was preceded by years of political wrangling with the U.S. over the status of their nuclear program.

2006 – New Horizons is launched on a 9 year voyage to Pluto, January 19.

2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

2006 - The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-121, the second Return to Flight mission following the Columbia accident, July 4.

2006 - NASA resumes construction of the International Space Station following the Columbia accident with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-115 on September 9.

2006 – Pluto is reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet, leaving the solar system with eight planets.
2006 six bombs explode in train stations in Mumbai, killing 190.

2007

2007 – Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
2007 – South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General,
2007 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, in order to bolster the president's position.
2007 – Martti Ahtisaari unveils a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
2007 – North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.
2007– Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admits that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
2007 – Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23.
2007 – Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in theconstellation Libra.
2007 – Russians riot in Tallinn, Estonia, about moving the Bronze Soldier; 2 nights of rioting leave 1 dead.
2007 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
2007 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
2007– Operation Orchard: Israeli airplanes strike a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
2007 – President Pervez Musharraf declares a state of emergency in Pakistan..
2007– A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan, including 6 members of the National Assembly.
2007 – High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
2007– Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
2007 – Over 200 people are killed in Kenya, due to riots over the results of the December 27 presidential election.

2008

2008 – A car bomb detonates, killing at least 4 and injuring 68, in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Police blame Kurdish rebels.
2008 – A Macedonian Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in thick fog southeast of Skopje, killing all 11 military personnel on board.
2008 – Thousands of Palestinians cross into Egypt, as the border wall with Gaza in Rafah is blown up by militants.
2008 – Rebels attack the capital of Chad, N'Djamena.
2008 – President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta is seriously wounded in an attack on his home by rebel soldiers. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed by Ramos-Horta's security guards during the attack.
2008 – Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia, with support from some countries but opposition from others.
2008 – Eight Israeli civilians are killed and 9 wounded when a Palestinian attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.
2008 – India sets a world record by sending 10 satellites into orbit in a single launch.
2008 – Over 133,000 in Burma/Myanmar are killed by Cyclone Nargis, the deadliest natural disaster since the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004.
2008 – Armed conflict in August 2008 between Georgia on one side, and the Russian Federation together with Ossetians and Abkhazians on the other. Russia officially recognized independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
2008 – NASA's MESSENGER flies by Mercury, becoming the first spacecraft to do so in 33 years.
2008 – Phoenix Lander successfully arrives at Mars; later tests conducted by the spacecraft reveal evidence of ice on Mars.
2008 – Chinese space program launches its third manned space flight carrying its first three-person crew and conducts its first spacewalk that makes China the third nation after Russia and USA to do that, Shenzhou 7 on September 25.
2008 – The Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 is launched on October 22. India becomes the fourth nation to reach the moon.
November 2008 Mumbai attacks, a series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India, killing 195 people and injuring 290 more.
2008 Sichuan earthquake - An earthquake in Sichuan, China killed 68,712, 17,921 missing.

2009

2009 –Barack Obama is elected first African-American president of the United States
2009 – North Korea tests a nuclear bomb beneath the ground in north east of the nation, which creates an earthquake that shows as 4 on the Richter scale.
2009 - NASA launches the Kepler Space Observatory on a three year mission to search the sky in the Cygnus, Lyra, and Draco constellations for Earth-like planets, March 6.
2009 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope on STS-125 to give the Hubble much needed repairs. This mission will enable Hubble to last for approximately 5 to 10 years.
2009 - NASA conducts the Ares I-X test flight. The 6-minute suborbital flight was the only flight of the Constellation program that was supposed to replace the Space Shuttle fleet in the next decade.
2009 - NASA/ISRO discovers water on the Moon
2009 L'Aquila earthquake - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila (Italy) in April 2009, one of the worst in Italian history.
2009 flu pandemic - A worldwide outbreak of Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 spread around the world forming a pandemic by June 2009.


2010

2010 – Polish president Lech Kaczynski and 96 others died in an air disaster in western Russia. Investigations into the accident are still ongoing.
2010 Haiti earthquake - At least 230,000 are killed in Haiti after a massive earthquake. As of late February 2010, the death toll is expected to rise. Three million people were made homeless.
2010 – An 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing 497.[15] One of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, this rare megathrust earthquake probably shifts Earth's axis and slightly shortens its days.2010 Yushu earthquake - A large 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Yushu region of China in Qinghai near Tibet, killing over 2200 people.
2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull - A massive ash cloud is formed by the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, grounding flights across northwest Europe.
2010 – A suicide bombing occurs at a volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 95, and injuring over.
2010 – The International Space Station program will take the record for the longest continuous occupation of space in history from Mir.
2010-2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico, also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).