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The people of 2018

From the keeper of the last male northern white rhino to the first British man to win an Olympic medal on snow, from the Parkland students behind March For Our Lives to Childish Gambino's choreographer: these and others tell the story of the year

28 December 2018

  • Attorney Gloria Allred stands with accusers of actor and comedian Bill Cosby after a jury convicted him in a sexual assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 26, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

    ‘I was shocked by the verdict’: Gloria Allred, lawyer for 33 of Bill Cosby’s accusers

    When the disgraced TV star was found guilty of sexual assault, Allred’s clients went from survivors to ‘fighters for change’

27 December 2018

  • The collapsed Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy

    ‘It was apocalyptic’: the police officer whose sniffer dog saved six people in the Genoa bridge collapse

    The Italian state police chief was in the area by chance when the Morandi motorway bridge gave way

26 December 2018

  • Ilhan Omar, newly elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket, arrives for her victory party on election night in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 6, 2018

    ‘It was a rejection of Trump’s way of thinking’: Ilhan Omar on being elected to Congress

    The former refugee from Somalia on becoming one of the first two Muslim women representatives

25 December 2018

  • Composite of images from Childish Gambino's This Is America video

    'Donald Glover likes to learn, which made my job easier': the choreographer behind This Is America

    The Rwanda-born dancer, who grew up in south London, helped create the most talked-about video of the year

24 December 2018

  • Zacharia Mutai, head keeper at at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, with Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, moments before he died

    'We held a memorial service': the keeper of the last male northern white rhino

    The head keeper at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya remembers Sudan

23 December 2018

  • Deputy Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police Paul Mills makes a statement to the press outside The Bowman Centre after Wiltshire Police declared a major incident after a man and woman were exposed to an unknown substance on July 4, 2018 in Amesbury, England

    'I'm amazed more people didn't get ill': Salisbury's police chief on the novichok poisonings

    The deputy chief constable of Wiltshire police recalls how a small force responded to the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal

22 December 2018

  • Jennifer Hudson performs onstage with students at March For Our Lives on March 24, 2018 in Washington, DC

    ‘We took our anger and channelled it’: Parkland students Jaclyn Corin and Delaney Tarr on becoming activists

  • Great Britain's Billy Morgan goes airborne on his way to winning bronze in the final of the men's snowboard big air event at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on February 24, 2018 in Pyeongchang

    ‘The celebrations are still going on’: snowboarder Billy Morgan on winning bronze

21 December 2018

  • Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, sucking on lollipops and holding hands, in New York, 20 June 2018

    ‘It sucks, because I made zero dollars from it’: how I coined Big Dick Energy

    The 27-year-old Twitter user from Toronto on the post that spawned this year’s buzz phrase
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