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Indian Ocean tsunami
How survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster

A rise in the number of remarriages and a baby boom in the years since 2004 gave hope to survivors and helped them cope with the tragedy

Syria
Syrian forces suffer 14 fatalities in countryside clashes

Kazakhstan
Officials report 29 survivors and 38 killed as plane crashes in Kazakhstan

Australia cricket team
Fourth men’s cricket Test, day one – live

Retail industry
UK shoppers expected to spend £3.7bn on Boxing Day

Best of 2024

French flirting, flute fusion and love flowin’ free
The best old music we discovered this year

A little crate-digging can yield buried treasure – as our music writers found this year when they discovered everything from Taiwanese pop star to Cher’s disco era

Twisters! Tennis! Transformations!
The best movie moments of 2024

2024 in Culture
The 20 best podcasts of 2024

Television
Ripley to The Rings of Power: your top TV of 2024

2024 in TV
‘It was like I’d run six marathons then they said do a seventh’ – how Industry’s Marisa Abela hit peak form

In focus

The age of extinction
They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go

New Zealand
2m x 6m with a composting toilet: New Zealand embraces tiny home living

‘You learn to live with the pain’
20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, Australian couple remember son Paul

Spotlight

Pictures of the year
The photographs that defined 2024 – and the stories behind them

TV review
Squid Game season two review – TV that will make you uncomfortably bloodthirsty indeed

Review
Beyoncé NFL half-time show review – country ho-ho-ho-down is playful and infectious

Opinion

I spent a week working, exercising and relaxing in virtual reality. I’m shocked to say it finally works

Ed Newton-Rex

What’s occurrin’? Gavin & Stacey has breathed new life into my hometown

Simon Price

The birth of Jesus would probably have been forgotten – if it wasn’t for a plague

Jonathan Kennedy

Sport

Football
Guardiola fears City will miss out on Champions League

Football
Liverpool’s Slot wary of Van Nistelrooy after duo’s Eredivisie battles

Football
Arteta, coach with ‘British DNA’, marks five years leading Arsenal

Podcast

Today in Focus
Revisited: The birdwatcher fighting racism in public spaces – podcast

A Central Park birdwatching incident went viral after Christian Cooper filmed a white woman threatening him. Now he is using his platform to share his passion for nature

Business

Debt relief
Labour urged to lead global effort as cost of repayments soars

Film industry
UK box office forecast to top £1bn in 2025 after year-on-year fall

In pictures

Photos of the day
Sunrise, a blessing and surfing

US culture
Looking back on landmarks of US Black history from an era of erasure

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