Lock Tom Donnelly admits a less-than-accurate display against Australia has sent the All Blacks back in front of their computer screens.

The gems come from the Marange fields where miners were massacred by soldiers and villagers have been beaten, raped and forced to work as virtual slaves.

Jim Eagles travels a well worn path through a historic landscape and finds plenty of remnants from its fascinating past still in place.

For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid at Giza has enthralled, fascinated and ultimately frustrated everyone who has attempted to penetrate its secrets.

Its location is little-known but its cultural appeal is huge - Pamela Wade throws herself into the Mauritian mix.

A dream assignment helps photographer Chris Sisarich fulfill a life-long ambition.

Inspired by a love of Dr Dolittle and Tarzan to go to Tanzania and study chimpanzees, Jane Goodall has now clocked up 50 years of groundbreaking research into their behaviour. Robin McKie charts her extraordinary story.

Quade Cooper has lost his appeal against a two-match suspension.

It was the impalas I felt sorriest for. Poor little buggers.

A former All Black has lost another round in a legal battle with the SBS Bank over a million dollar debt on a Coromandel property development.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has thumbed his nose at prosecutors and made his first visit to a member state of the ICC.

If you're feeling a bit glum it's all over, relive the best opinion, photos and video from the World Cup with nzherald.co.nz's definitive recap.

The vuvuzela - love it or hate it, it's hard to ignore it.

All Blacks coach Graham Henry says Bakkies Botha was lucky not to get a harsher sentence.

South African lock Bakkies Botha has been suspended for nine weeks after headbutting Jimmy Cowan last night.

Kyle Siebert, who appears in camo gear on Generation Kill, is a most unlikely war hero. He doesn't think war is necessary and now works in a supermarket in Christchurch.

A tidal wave of demand for game meat could drive some of Africa's last hunter-gatherers to eradicate the very wildlife that sustains them.