Once part of the bricks and mortar of Auckland's cityscape, a range of historic buildings are no more. Alan Perrott looks into their rise and fall.

'Wolf Hall' - a rip-roaring historical tome about Thomas Cromwell - has won the $68,000 Man Booker Prize.

The father of a man who died in the Mt Erebus disaster says a plan to fly victims' families back to the site is a publicity stunt.

The Viking reputation as bloodthirsty conquerors has endured for more than a millennium but new research shows that some Norsemen approached the British islands with more than a little trepidation.

Qantas will today celebrate naming one of its new transtasman aircraft after our most famous pilot - Jean Batten.