headlines
Friday
29 December 2017
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UVF claimed MI5 urged it to kill former Irish PM, state papers revealMessage from UVF to former taoiseach Charles Haughey claims British intelligence supplied details of his home and cars -
Zuma impeachment calls grow after court rules on home upgrade scandalSouth Africa’s constitutional court says parliament failed to hold the country’s president to account over state-funded upgrades to rural residence
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Record number of passports issued as Brexit vote spurs demand779,000 Irish passports issued in 2017, the highest number since records began and up 6% on the year before -
Protests over alleged corruption and rising prices spread to TehranAngry eruptions proliferate after police disperse spontaneous demonstration in city of Kermanshah in western Iran -
spotlight
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The words of the yearIn the year of Harvey Weinstein and Wonder Woman, of ‘collusion’ and even more ‘fake news’, Steven Poole assesses the lexical novelties
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The experts’ guide to making – and keeping – your New Year resolutionsPsychologists offer their best tips for staying on track in 2018, from taking on your challenge in the morning to cutting yourself some slack
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His impact so far and what to watch for next yearWhat may be America’s strangest presidency ever has been a radical departure – in tone if not in substance – not least over race, the media and the environment
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Profile of greatest theatrical poem ever writtenThe destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare’s play speaks to us urgently still today
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From Korea to Russia, 2018 set to show again that sport is politics by other meansThe Winter Olympics, World Cup and Commonwealth Games will all have a backdrop that reminds us sport is political
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Guardiola reasserts his version of post-CruyffianismPep Guardiola has conquered England with a football that is not merely beautiful but also dominant. Can he do it in Europe in 2018?
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Sporting greats learn to greet broken records with generous fanfareAlan Shearer was ‘delighted’ after Harry Kane erased his Premier League goal record but reactions to losing cherished marks were not always so magnanimous
opinion
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For their eyes only: the secret stories ministers don’t want you to readThe list of documents lost, missing or held back from publication in 2017 reveals the scale of Whitehall’s addiction to the cover-up, writes Guardian correspondent Richard Norton-Taylor
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If we can have booze buses, then why not care clubs for the isolated, vulnerable and unwell? The need is sadly all too great, writes Guardian columnist Simon JenkinsBritain’s need for ‘drunk tanks’ shows how broken our society is
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Gunmen launch deadly attack on Coptic church near CairoAt least nine killed, including members of Egypt’s Christian minority, in shooting at Marmina church in Helwan district
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Trump's call for some 'good old global warming' ridiculed by climate expertsUS president again conflates weather with climate to pour scepticism on climate change but experts call comments ‘scientifically ridiculous’
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explore
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Young, single New Zealanders head out on a romantic questOnce every two years the rural town of Middlemarch holds a singles’ ball attracting hundreds of young people from across the country looking for love
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The most exciting movies of 2018 by big-name directorsDamien Chazelle heads for space, while Gravity’s Alfonso Cuarón comes back down to Earth – and Terry Gilliam fulfils his Don Quixote fantasy after 28 years
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E-cigarettes are definitely safer than smokingAlthough not harmless, the evidence is unequivocal that vaping is much safer than smoking. But misinformation and scaremongering could still be putting people off switching
This year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian will attempt to record all of the deaths of people who are killed while defending their land, forests, rivers or wildlife
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Recording the deaths of environmental defenders worldwideThis year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian aims to record the deaths of all people killed while protecting land or natural resources. At the current rate, about four defenders will die this week somewhere on the planet
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Environmental crusaders risk their lives to save paradiseA small group of civilian para-enforcers is taking the protection of Palawan’s threatened rainforest from illegal loggers into their own hands
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Indigenous people of Colombia fighting for their landsThe 50-year civil war is over but, in the Cauca Valley, indigenous communities are on frontline of fight against drug gangs, riot police and deforestation
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On the road with the defenders of the world’s forestsA busload of indigenous leaders have been crossing Europe to highlight their cause before the start of UN climate talks in Bonn
people
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Black woman raped by six white men in 1944 dies aged 97Taylor was abducted and raped by six white men as she walked home from church in Abbeville
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I laugh in my sleep but I never remember whyThe comic presenter and actor on the things that make him laugh the most, from Big Train to Airplane!
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Juliet Rylance on playing a moll in McMafiaShe’s the star of the BBC’s flagship New Year drama about ruthless Russian gangsters exiled in Britain. Juliet Rylance talks about blind love, working with her stepdad Mark – and how she helped bring peace to two billion people
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Editor's notes on Milo Yiannopoulos book revealedCourt submissions over far-right provocateur’s memoir reveal concerns over weak arguments, boasting and racism
life
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To be happier, women should try giving up on being goodWomen are more unhappy than men, and men are blamed for this. But perhaps men aren’t the real culprits
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My brother hurt me, and I want to cut contact, but Mum’s will left money issuesMy manipulative, abusive brother got Mum to alter her will in his favour. I want to cut off from him. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
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The week in wildlifeA rare golden monkey, Hawaiian green sea turtles and Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhinoceros all feature in this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Dancing devils and a cold camelThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world
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Britain's wintry weatherHeavy snow, rain, thunderstorms and wind have caused disruption across much of Britain as a band of severe weather rolled across the country
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Guardian photographers' best 2017 portraitsWild-living nomads, artists, actors, singers, cricketers and refugees – here is a stunning selection of images, from Gina Miller and Steve Coogan to Ed Sheeran, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jeremy Corbyn, Cardi B and Fenella Fielding
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The human cost of the Beijing evictionsThe authorities in Beijing have launched an eviction drive to clear parts of the city of workers who have migrated from elsewhere in the countryu
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The animal species discovered this yearFrom the Pink Floyd shrimp that makes a noise so loud it can kill small fish, to giant stick insects and new types of orangutans and gibbons, here is a round up of new animal species discovered this year
New wave Dutch plan vast windfarm island in North Sea