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The Queen's address on the 75th anniversary of VE Day

The Queen only ever airs a speech once a year at Christmas - but she's made an exception. Video / The Royal Family

Hidden history: Works reveal popular North Shore beach's secret

The surprise find will soon be buried back under the sand.

Study suggests coronavirus could lurk in lungs

Whether people can get COVID-19 twice remains a subject of scientific investigation.

Jude Dobson: Why I stood at dawn on Anzac Day

There's a link between our current crisis and two world wars, says documentary maker.

Help line the streets with poppies this Anzac Day with our special poster

New Zealanders are being called on to get innovative this Anzac Day.

Boredom busters: Things to do at home for all ages

Editor Ilona Hanne has a list of things to help keep you occupied while staying at home.

Anzac Day: Visiting a foreign land intimately connected with New Zealand

The modern Kiwi connections keeping the Anzac memory alive on the Western Front.

Tyne Cot and the battlefields of Flanders

Flanders is mute testament to those who were young, not for long but forever.

Human in a time of crisis: Thomas Cromwell and the lessons of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy

What does it take to govern? What is it to be human? A tale of Tudor England and today.

Editorial: Jojo Rabbit holds lesson in racist German attack

EDITORIAL: Extremist acts may cause great suffering but they are ultimately futile.

Letters: Milk, red meat healthy for us too

Vegetables and fruit are good, but you need dairy products and red meat as well.

The power of onions: India the luxury way

How to see the real India without leaving the comfort zone.

'Disturbing': Secret search for proof of pre-Polynesian giants criticised

A secretive group excavating a cave near Huntly has iwi and archaeologists worried.

'The intelligence coup of the century': CIA's secret plan

For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.

An island off an island: The romance of Ortigia

A southern Italian gem that offers culture, history and seafood fresh from the ocean.

Jay Kuten: A hard rain's gonna fall

Trump, free of the threat of removal, is anointed by his Trump Senate party as a monarch.

Rudman: It's time for a genuine national day beyond the settlers

COMMENT: The anniversary day holiday list has a pro-settler bias, writes Brian Rudmand

Letters: Health practices shrouded

The Ministry of Health appears culpable for careless or incompetent procedures.