Newsmakers 2014

2014 was a big year for breakups

Six people ran to help Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. They were strangers back then. They are not now.

From the first-ever comet landing to the Ice Bucket Challenge, 2014 was full of surprises

GamerGate is already having a chilling effect on people who might be thinking of playing or designing games

By coming forward about Jian Ghomeshi, two women set off a global conversation about sexual assault

In which the year’s biggest personalities make a PB&J sandwich in their own special way

A woman with a populist focus, driven by a mission of ‘morality,’ is now the world’s most powerful central banker

In the span of a year, Ebola went from small outbreak to the kind of threat the world hasn’t seen in modern times

Saluted by leaders at home and abroad, Kevin Vickers has become a meaningful symbol of strength and resilience