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2015: what happened next?

What happened to the family of three-year-old Alan Kurdi in the aftermath of September’s refugee tragedy? How did Reddit’s Ellen Pao rebuild her life after enduring ‘the largest trolling attack in history’? Can we solve the mystery of how The Dress went viral and where Ed Miliband’s doomed Ed Stone is buried? We revisit some of the biggest and strangest stories of 2015

23 December 2015

  • Drake, Lil Wayne, Kate Moss, Sylvia Plath and Kreayshawn

    'Basic': the biggest insult of 2015

    Kate Moss made it the diss of the year but being basic has a long history, reaching back through Lil Wayne to Sylvia Plath
  • Jeremy Corbyn remains the consummate anti-leader, just as unlikely as the eternal rebel who reluctantly threw his beret into the ring back in June.

    Annus Corbyn-ilis: inside the Labour leader’s topsy-turvy year

    Just hours after Jeremy Corbyn sneaked on to the party’s leadership ballot, he admitted he’d been reluctant to stand at all. After being criticised for everything from his singing of Incy-Wincy Spider to his nuclear policy, did he make the right decision?
  • Muslim pilgrims circle counterclockwise Islam's holiest shrine, the Kaaba, at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, late on September 20, 2015. The annual hajj pilgrimage begins on September 22, and more than a million faithful have already flocked to Saudi Arabia in preparation for what will for many be the highlight of their spiritual lives. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKHMOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images

    The Hajj crush: ‘It was the closest thing to hell on earth’

    September’s pilgrimage to Mecca was the deadliest in years, with fatalities from a stampede approaching 2,000. One man describes the horrific aftermath and the mistreatment of the dead as he tried to recover his sister’s body in Saudi Arabia

22 December 2015

  • Zayn Malik broke hearts in his sponsored outfit at Louis Vuitton in Paris this summer.

    Zayn Malik: his year in photographs

  • Bim Adewunmi and Archie Bland

    Love after the 36-question experiment: ‘It was a date we’ll never forget’

  • Ellen Pao founder and former ceo of Reddit photographed for Time, San Francisco, summer 2015

    How Reddit’s Ellen Pao survived one of ‘the largest trolling attacks in history’

  • General Election 2015 campaign - May 2nd<br>Labour leader Ed Miliband unveils Labour's pledges carved into a stone plinth in Hastings during General Election campaigning. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday May 2, 2015. See PA story ELECTION Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    The Ed Stone: where is Ed Miliband’s monumental folly now?

  • Cecil the lion: 'He died for a cause'

  • Why the England women's football team scored in 2015

  • #Thedress: ‘It's been quite stressful having to deal with it ... we had a falling-out’

  • ​Alan Kurdi​’s father on his family tragedy: ‘I should have died with them’

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