What does the next year hold in store? BBC Sport has taken a look in its crystal ball and come up with the answers.

President Maduro announces the hike despite the country's economic turmoil.

Most people have broken their resolutions by mid-January. Can you take steps to make them last?

Why we are still nuts (and bolts) about Mary Shelley's creation 200 years after it was first published.

BBC News looks ahead to some of the biggest science and environment stories coming up in 2018.

A rare collection spanning more than two million years captures key moments in India's past.

Social media firms face huge fines if they let hate speech linger on their networks, warn German authorities.

UN peacekeeper Major Michelle Kayanda from Zambia tells us about life as a female peacekeeper in the Central African Republic.

Braving near-freezing water in the midst of winter.

The Rohingya children from Myanmar born as refugees.

The blaze at a multi-storey site in Liverpool forced many to spend New Year's Eve in a shelter.

China has introduced new restrictions on the import of foreign waste, in an effort to reduce pollution.

The North Korean leader's new year message contained both a warning and an olive branch.

Two people are hurt and thousands evacuated as fireworks on a barge ignited at random.

The Gulf states have been under pressure to increase state revenue in the face of lower oil prices

UK boss Richard Cousins, his two sons, fiancée and her daughter died on New Year's Eve on holiday in Sydney.

The ban on all trade in ivory is being hailed as a major step towards protecting elephants.

One in five Americans can now legally purchase the drug in six states across the country.

British number one Johanna Konta comes from a set down to beat Madison Keys but Heather Watson loses at the Brisbane International.

England all-rounder Ben Stokes is given permission by the ECB to take part in the lucrative Indian Premier League this year.

Protests have continued despite the president's warning that violence will not be tolerated.