What TV taught us in 2017
This year we learned there was no such thing as too long, complicated, dark or difficult; that every Doctor is the ultimate until the next one – and that the future is stalking us like prey
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Brave blue world
The return of blue UK passports
Brexiters are celebrating the end of the burgundy passport, but the truth is the UK could have had blue passports within the EU, writes James E Baldwin
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'This is my mum'
A stolen child finally returns home
When Kauka was eight she was abducted by soldiers from her village in the former Portuguese colony of Timor-Leste. Now she has come back
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Smearing the White Helmets
The Russia-backed campaign to link Syria’s volunteer rescuers with al-Qaida exposes how conspiracy theories take root: ‘It’s like a factory’
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Bussed out
How America moves its homeless
Each year, US cities give thousands of homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town. We reveal, for the first time, what really happens at journey’s end
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Dad interrupted
Professor Robert Kelly was explaining South Korean politics live on the BBC when Marion and James barged in. His ‘family blooper’ went viral – and meant a security guard was installed at his daughter’s kindergarten
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The dark side of K-pop
The 27-year-old SHINee singer Kim Jong-hyun was one of the beautiful, well-drilled entertainers who make K-pop so thrilling – and who are often treated miserably by their management companies
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'No-one is safe these days'
Our news photographer of the year
From the drought in Somalia to the conflict in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State to elections in her home country of Algeria,photographer Zohra Bensemra talks about her work
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Are you tough enuss?
Ed Miliband’s quiz of the year
Why was a massive courgette in the news? Who couldn’t face the thought of yet another election? The former Labour leader Ed Miliband lays down an eclectic end-of-year challenge
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