Climate deal commits nations to lower greenhouse gases

Audience members and delgates cheers after the adoption of a historic global warming pact at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015. Envoys from 195 nations on December 12 adopted to cheers and tears a historic accord to stop global warming, which threatens humanity with rising seas and worsening droughts, floods and storms. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOTFRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images

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The historic accord is a consensus on the need to move away from carbon-based fuels and a road map to do so.

ADAM HIMMELSBACH | BEAT WRITER?S NOTEBOOK

12 takeaways from one crazy night at TD Garden

After Friday?s game, the Warriors heaped praise on the Celtics, who face the Hornets in Charlotte on Saturday.

The scoop on ?Star Wars?

Interviews with actors, character bios, interesting facts about the movie, and a lightsaber explained.

ALL-SCHOLASTICS

Fall 2015 Globe All-Scholastics: Honoring area?s best

The Boston Globe celebrates the best athletes from fall competition.

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What is it like to live in Jamaica Plain?

?There is a sense of community in Jamaica Plain today, but it?s a different sense of community,?? resident Lisa Delfino Connor says.

Derrick Z. Jackson

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Universities bring African-American men to campus at grotesque levels to earn the school millions in sports revenues.

Scott Kirsner | betaboston

Old economy and new trying to catch the holiday spirits

Startups and big players like Amazon.com and Total Wine & More are trying to shake up the retail liquor industry.

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A lobsterman, a fire truck, a chef, a sand dollar, and a crow are among the 34 sculptures on display from Thanksgiving to New Year?s Day.

?Wake? by John Walker, one of 32 artists with work in ?You Can?t Get There From Here? in Portland, Maine.

Art Review

Maine event: Excellent art on view in Portland biennial

The 2015 Portland Biennial is tightly organized and aesthetically rewarding, full of high-caliber art.

Dave Schaefer managed the industrial smoker at Blue Ribbon BBQ in Arlington.

Buying a backyard smoker for the holidays

Personal, backyard smokers are popping up in suburban backyards across the country. So how do you go about picking the right one?

crux

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Boston?s Cardinal Sean O?Malley will join the pope when he stops at the US border during a trip to Mexico in February.

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Hundreds walk in Boston to end gun violence

Marchers, many wearing orange, commemorated the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.

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Rand Paul said he?ll make an announcement this week about his campaign if he isn?t included in Tuesday?s primetime GOP debate.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamed(61)A.jpg Red Line probe points to MBTA driver mistakes

The unmanned subway train is the latest in a string of controversies for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

The lever used to regulate speed on a 01500 series redline car.

MBTA

MBTA officials had to improvise to prevent disaster

The supervisor and the dispatcher had 48 years of MBTA experience between them, but neither had game-planned for this. Nobody had.

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Many not setting aside enough to pay for college

Most save just 27 percent of their college funding goals by the time their child heads to campus.

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The city has not determined how the virus got into food at the restaurant.

Man is arrested in stabbing death of woman in Worcester

Cherise Hill was stabbed Dec. 2 and video footage recorded the attack, according to reports.

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Doctors Without Borders revised the number of people killed in a US airstrike on a hospital to at least 42, up from 30.

Ground Game

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/08/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/trump150-2064.jpg Three scenarios for Trump and the GOP

What happens after Donald Trump, particularly for the Republican Party?

Globe Santa

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Globe Santa delivers holiday gifts to local children in need.

Globe investigations

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A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

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The best Boston Globe photos of 2015

Staff photographers share the stories behind the year?s most powerful pictures.