Scientists have renewed their focus on Wairau Bar off Marlborough's Cloudy Bay, which bears secrets of our earliest settlers and their paths to Aotearoa.

One man's unbelievable 10-year crime spree across California; 45 rapes, 12 murders and 120 burglaries, have left police baffled to this day.

Inside the 19th century Auckland cottage that sits on a 73sqm section and is sandwiched between two apartment blocks.

The Kiwi and Australian commandos of elite special unit ZSU, many of whom died without their family ever knowing what they did, will finally be recognised.

Letters written 100 years ago by a NZ sailor have revealed how he survived a catastrophic naval battle in World War I by smearing his body with heavy oil.

New Zealand has a long history of colourful personalities, including intrepid vagabonds, audacious statesmen, polite pilferers and unshrinking violets.

In 1979, Ali made a visit to New Zealand and made a strong impression on a young Lance Revill.

The soaring prison population has led to an over spend of 45 million dollars on jails in the last 12 months and new technology could help reduce the number of bobby calves being killed. Also a Kiwi takes America’s got talent by storm.

Washington's Watergate Hotel - at the heart of the scandal that lead to Nixon's resignation -is set to reopen after nearly 10 years.

COMMENT: Visiting French PM Manuel Valls acknowledges the talent and experience of Helen Clark, but says it is too early to have a formal opinion on whether she should have the top UN job, writes Barry Soper.

The ship used by Captain James Cook during his voyage to New Zealand may have been found on the bottom of the ocean floor in a US harbour.

Half of Western European men are descended from one Bronze Age "king" who sired a dynasty of nobles which spread throughout Europe, a study has shown.

A new book argues the view that World War I is a pointless conflict fails to consider myriad positive experiences that continue to shape our lives today.

Relatives of two Kiwi World War I soldiers will today pay tribute to them in an emotional memorial service a century after they died.

For the first time the entire Stone Age grotto with its more than 1900 animal paintings is being reproduced.

France's national army museum has recreated the home where Napoleon lived his final years.

I suspect The Nation's attempts to topple Governor George Grey and Colonel Marmaduke Nixon from their pedestals will die a rapid death, writes Brian Rudman.

Safely tucked away from prying eyes, Bunker 42 was Joseph Stalin's expansive nuclear facility built by the Soviet Union during the Cold War

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The New Zealand flag was designed in 1869 for use as a shipping ensign by a British Lieutenant.

Collection of letters, photos and artworks shed light on key moments in nascent arts culture of 50s-80s.

After an eruption of protests the skin-whitening ad was withdrawn with "heartfelt apologies" from Seoul Secret. But they didn't withdraw the product, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Hundreds of bedraggled, battle-weary men huddled in winter darkness waiting for the last man.

One of the most infamous chapters in modern New Zealand history will be recreated for a hit TV drama.

What more could a national holiday do except reopen old wounds and invite continued debate? We have enough of that around Waitangi Day.

The fate of a NZ submariner who vanished with his vessel 101 years ago could finally be settled by a mission in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

There is a dissonance between the reality of modern war and the high ideals by which war is justified, writes Chris Barfoot. These ideals form a deadly combination.

The father of a Northland man's World War I diaries could be the last returned to veterans' descendants by the British archive.