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2016 in review

  • Pope Francis holds hands with people after mass in the Vatican

    The Guardian view on Pope Francis: championing humanity

  • capybara

    The alternative 2016 sports awards: the year’s best quotes, gaffes and meltdowns

  • woman bookshop

    Readers’ books of the year 2016

    The critics had their say, now it’s time for readers to pick their books of the year – from diaries to dictionaries and emperors to existentialists
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May

    Education quiz: how much do you remember about 2016?

    Endless U-turns, the return of grammar schools and a leather trouser scandal. Test your knowledge of last year’s education news
  • Syrian refugees in frosty field

    Our favourite global development stories of 2016

    From refugees to aid worker safety, leaving no one behind to localising aid, it’s been a busy year for humanitarians and development folk. Catch up our coverage
    • Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016

    • The year's top development stories: 2016 in review

    • 10 of the most inspiring adventures of 2016

  • An aerial shot of Amanohashidate beach, near Kyoto, Japan.

    The best-read travel stories of 2016

  • Vehicles pass by Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. Police hastily cleared the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday to investigate an unattended backpack, only to find that the bag contained children’s toys (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

    So long, 2016: a bad year for people who need real homes, not investments

  • August’s entry is a vintage view of the Allgäu Alps in Germany

    Guardian Travel's year in Instagram 2016 – in pictures

    Our Instagram feed @guardiantravelsnaps focuses on mobile photography from around the world, and more than 450,000 images having been shared with us
  • Workers sat on different floors of a glass fronted office

    How the world of work changed in 2016

    From bogus self-employment to automation, this year has been a turbulent one for UK workers
    • Grass was greener but wildlife struggled in muggy 2016

    • Brexit, strikes and pay revolts: the year in business

    • 'I'm not Father Christmas' and other business quotes of 2016

  • Malcolm Turnbull on election night

    Australia in 2016: the year leaders flailed as populism sailed

    Malcolm Turnbull only just won an election and struggled with a rightwing surge, while allegations of mistreatment of the vulnerable peppered a bleak 2016. Thank heavens for Crowded House and Helen Garner, writes Katharine Murphy
  • Steve Bell 2016

    Steve Bell on his best cartoons of 2016 – ‘The Danes demanded an apology’

    How do you capture the events of an extraordinary year? Start with a condom, a clown and a Nazi …
    • ‘Get that lie off your bus’: the year’s best slapdowns

    • The 2016 Donald Trump tasting menu: racist Skittles and silver-service KFC

    • The fakest people of 2016: from ‘spokesman John Miller’ to Keith Vaz’s ‘Jim’

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