BBC NHU/Fredi Devas
Some animals love living in the urban jungle – but they are a small minority, compared to those we risk losing to urbanisation.
Caroline Johnson, the new Conservative MP for Sleaford and North North Hykeham was quickly ushered away after her victory.
Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Caroline Johnson won with a large majority in the by-election in Lincolnshire.
Geert Wilders in court during the trial.
Remoko De Wall/EPA
The leader of the Dutch Freedom Party was found guilty of insulting a group of people inciting discrimination.
The grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus ): at 60 grams, nearly the smallest primate in the world. I studied this primate in Madagascar.
Jason Gilchrist, www.jasongilchrist.co.uk
As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, there may be dark days ahead for some of the world’s rarest and most beautiful primates.
PA/David Parker
The Assisted Places Scheme was a controversial policy that got 75,000 poorer pupils a top-tier education. Or so it was claimed.
Artist’s impression of an ice age.
Ittiz/wikimedia
The Earth’s orbit has driven ice ages in the past but those days could be over.
Patrick/Flickr
Modesty in your spending (and half an eye on the future) could make you very cheerful indeed.
Billion Photos/Shutterstock.com
Nursing apprenticeships didn’t work out the first time and now they’re back, and pose a risk to patients.
BBC/Planet Earth II
Rather than opting for an apocalyptic rhetoric or messages of fear, Planet Earth employs a ‘positive’ narrative that can generate a bigger impact.
Umberto Boccioni’s Charge of the Lancers.
Wikimedia Commons
War got the futurists noticed and earned them new respect.
Bags are packed, you’re ready to go.
Agata Kowalczyk/www.shutterstock.com
A fall in the number of migrants after Britain leaves the EU will be costly.
Taiwanese premier Tsai Ing-wen converses with Donald Trump.
EPA/Office of the President of Taiwan
The frenzied response to this year’s most examined courtesy call played right into Beijing’s hands.
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Shutterstock
Promises made by researchers to participants to elicit the truth may not be worth the paper their written on if the courts can bulldoze though them.
What are they thinking?
John Lewis
The science of making us watch … and then spend.
A sculpture of a bomb remains by the Black Hole of Los Alamos.
Becky Alexis-Martin
This year saw nuclear weapons tested, stockpiles renewed, and disasters remembered.
Kezia Dugdale at the IPPR on December 7.
Jonathan Brady/PA
Why Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale’s federalist ploy is not the right way forward.
Helen Marten © Tate
Helen Marten, this year’s winner, has revealed a sense of something progressive and pioneering.
Classic comedy: a first edition of one of Wodehouse’s novels.
Picture by Rui Vieira PA Archive/PA Images
England’s much-loved comic writer has been recognised as a classic of 20th-century literature.
Tensions on the bridge.
Colin Samson
Standoff over North Dakota pipeline and Chief Sitting Bull’s Standing Rock is another broken promise made to Native Americans.
Still awaiting justice.
Niall Carson/PA Archive
Political disagreements are hampering those still looking for justice.
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Some people with high blood pressure display normal readings when a doctor or nurse takes it.
Public services are under threat from government cuts, not migration.
Anthony Devlin / PA Wire
When it comes to public services, it’s not just a question of demand, but also one of supply.
jafsegal/Flickr
It’s about time Europe ditched the diesels – so what are the alternatives?
The construction of Indonesia’s Prambanan temple in 850 also affected the planet.
CEphoto, Uwe Aranas
The Anthropocene most likely started long before the 1950s.
Dita in 3D.
Shapeways
While other industries stride ahead with 3D printing, clothing still has a few hurdles to overcome.