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2015 the year ahead

Our sitewide guide to the year ahead
  • New year Africa

    A guide to Africa in 2015

    Simon Allison rounds up some of the stories that are likely to dominate Africa’s headlines this year
  • Three Forms, by Barbara Hepworth

    2015: the year ahead for art in London

    Rubens | Goya | Barbara Hepworth | Joseph Cornell | Ai Weiwei | Charles And Ray Eames | Eddie Peake | Alexander Calder
  • Oliver Burkeman: resolutions

    Oliver Burkeman: New Year’s resolutions worth making

  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer

    What Guardian US arts critics are most looking forward to in 2015

  • More foreign films? Fabrizio Rongione and Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night.

    Guardian US critics: our cultural new year's resolutions

    Never mind getting fit or giving up smoking, will this be the year you finally read In Search of Lost Time? Our critics share the arts-related things they’re determined to do in 2015
  • A militant Islamist fighter takes part in a military parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province.

    Middle East, 2015: further standoffs, tripwires and catastrophes

    Simon Tisdall: the jihadist threat of Isis and ongoing Syria catastrophe will pile pressure on western leaders. Then there’s Iran, Turkey, Israel-Palestine and north Africa …
    • YouTube apocalypse: old media still struggle to understand web superstars such as Zoella

    • Mourn the death of the wallet – it holds memories as well as money

    • Highlights of the 2015 calendar (including some you might have missed if we hadn’t warned you)

  • Girlpool

    Punk, funk, grrrl riots and rebels: the sound of 2015

    Harriet Gibsone: Deers, Girlpool, Slutever, Nimmo, Skinny Girl Diet – meet the lineup of all-women bands rocking the year ahead
  • Apple Pay mobile payment system

    Apple Pay on the way: why we may start shopping differently in 2015

    Alex Hern: evolving technology has fired up the race to bring in contactless mobile payments services for Britain – with Apple out in front
  • Digital tablets

    Context collapse, performance piety and civil inattention – the web concepts you need to understand in 2015

    Helen Lewis: Who to ignore? When to pay attention? Need help navigating online culture? Here’s a guide to netiquette
  • David Mitchell

    2015 in review: BBC apologises for bias, and the rise of Alan Partridge

    David Mitchell
    David Mitchell: No sooner have we digested the reviews of 2014 than it’s time to write one for 2015
  • Afghan school children walk  home after classes near an open classroom in the outskirts of Jalalabad on January 30, 2013. Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system being undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule.

    10 Christmas gifts that would improve millions of lives – in pictures

    Forget socks, iPads and a Frozen DVD; here are the Christmas gifts that would save and improve millions of lives around the world in 2015
  • Ebola suit

    Six things you need to do to change the world in 2015

    Paul Ladd in New York
    A new global development agenda is on the table. Paul Ladd shares advice on how to make it the most progressive and ambitious agenda possible
  • Ibeyi: 'you could label their music "soul" for lack of a better umbrella term'.

    Music: new talent for 2015

    On the eve of the BBC Music Sound of 2015 poll, Kitty Empire, Killian Fox, Michael Cragg and Kate Mossman pick out pop’s young contenders set to grab next year by the horns
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