From ballot boxes to battlefields, from stadiums to screens, a look back on the year that went by

World in review

When the United States chose Donald Trump as its next president, the country set out to reshape its engagement with the world. From his decision to impose tariffs to Make America Great Again, to his quest for the Peace Nobel, Trump acted and the world reacted. Other world events that made the headlines: extreme weather events across the world, Pope Francis’s death, China’s rare earth reserves, the Epstein files.