--- title: December 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 27 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/5069832/december-25th-2017-vol-190-no-27-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/ og:title: December 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 27 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. 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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6240ad997e52ab1f/6988f55b86f68e24d36e79c1/hk_g1500_findinghome1225cvr.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # December 25, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 27December 25, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 27  Issue name December 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 27 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific Issue date December 25, 2017 Location Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.WorldOthers ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### Student-Loan Borrowers Await Debt Relief [Business](/section/business/) ### The Executive Who Wants to Revolutionize Your Work Life ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### A Light In the Darkness [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _The Last Jedi_ Is a Star Wars Movie That's Truly for Everyone [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Yara Shahidi Is Finding Her Truth Through Art and Activism The black-ish star is tackling adulthood in her spinoff, grown-ish ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### This Year's Flu Virus Could Be Worse Than Usual — And the Vaccine May Not Help [Health](/section/health/) ### Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope How a forgotten 100-year-old therapy is saving lives [Health](/section/health/) ### Is 2018 the Year for Polio’s Extinction? The world's last case of polio may have already happened. We will know soon ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly: The New Year Is a Time for Hope, Even After Tragedy [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Robin Roberts: Grief May Change Some Holiday Traditions. But You Can Create New Ones [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Kesha: The Holidays Are Hard If You Struggle With Mental Illness. Don't Blame Yourself [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Patton Oswalt: How to Conquer Loneliness During the Holidays [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Katie Couric: What I’ve Learned Over the 19 Christmases Since My Husband Died [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Joe Biden: How the Sandy Hook Families Give Me Strength 'Around Christmas, I remember my daughter Naomi and my son Beau—just as I know the Sandy Hook families do' [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### The Last Temptation of Michael Flynn [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### How to Raise a Sweet Son in an Era of Angry Men ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### How Doug Jones Beat Roy Moore and Shocked the World [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Meet the Man Running a $100 Million Campaign to Save the Republican Majority Corry Bliss has a plan to save the Republican majority ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### 'My Story Is Indicative of Change.' Openly Gay Skier Gus Kenworthy Is Embracing His Role at the 2018 Winter Olympics "My story is indicative of change" ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Move Over, Millennials: How Generation Z Is Disrupting Work As We Know It "There’s always going to be something special about being the first" ### World [World](/section/world/) ### These Syrian Refugees Made It to Europe. But There Still Isn't an Answer to the Crisis A yearlong saga of three refugee families and their babies comes to an end [World](/section/world/) ### How Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Is Upending the Old Order Saudi Arabia's crown prince is upending the old order [World](/section/world/) ### Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's 37-Year-Old Leader, Rolls Up Her Sleeves TIME talks to New Zealand's new prime minister, and those that know her personally, about what drives her [World](/section/world/) ### Meet the Journalist and Reality-TV Star Challenging Vladimir Putin for the Russian Presidency [World](/section/world/) ### The Global Plan to Combat Climate Change Faces a Reckoning President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement isn't the only obstacle ### Others ### December 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 27 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"December 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 27 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific","item":"https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/5069832/december-25th-2017-vol-190-no-27-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/"}]}]} ```