Isis jihadists have planted mines around the ancient ruins in Syria's Palmyra, prompting fears for the Unesco World Heritage site.

Pam Neville finds the spirit of Joan Baez still lingers in Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel.

King's School in Auckland is to replace its old boarding house and clock tower with a $30 million glass-fronted building with views of Rangitoto Island.

Paul Lewis looks at the link between the city's growth and the ASB, a sponsor of this series.

Despite Magna Carta's venerable character, its written contribution to present New Zealand law is relatively thin, writes Stephen Winter.

Suzanne McFadden discovers just how much the city changed to host American servicemen during WWII.

Andrew Stone goes in search of his ethnic roots with the help of science and a little bit of saliva.

93: A soldier plagued by wartime foot injuries later had an Auckland rugby league trophy named after him - the William Devanney Stormont Shield.

Suzanne McFadden revisits the occupation of Bastion Point, a defining moment in the Maori land struggles of the 1970s.

Suzanne McFadden revisits six weeks of the most caustic mix of sport and politics New Zealand had ever seen - the 1981 Springboks tour.

88: Almost 100 years after he died in the uniform of another country, soldier Alexander Ormond stands firm in relief beside the pounding Pacific.

When Arthur Hoffman passed away in his sleep, his beloved wife of 69 years couldn't bear it. Two days later, Paddy Hoffman also slipped away.

Suzanne McFadden profiles some of our first entrepreneurs - the people behind now-household names like Crown Lynn and Fisher & Paykel.

86: Rifleman Clifford Nightingale was more familiar with the pen than the sword when he sailed with hundreds of reinforcements to join troops on the Western Front.

Auckland archaeologist and heritage expert Dave Veart tells the history of New Zealand through food and toys in his books.

In Auckland's demisemiseptcentennial year, Suzanne McFadden tells the story of it's popular mayor, Sir Dove-Myer Robinson.

The landscape of war is being recreated in an online game of Minecraft that will appeal to all ages. The Gallipoli in Minecraft exhibition at Auckland Museum opens tomorrow and runs until October 11. A virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape in the popular game of Minecraft will be downloadable from Anzac Day.

Author and historian Dr Monty Soutar specialises in Maori military history in both World Wars and is involved in Maori TV’s Anzac Day coverage. He talks war, racism and the East Coast.

The 93-year-old 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' will go on trial tomorrow charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Auschwitz prisoners.

85: Major was one of the "A" Battery commanders when a 101-gun royal salute in Auckland's Albert Park backfired in June 1911, injuring four.

The fate of an invaluable archive of up to 8 million historic New Zealand newspaper photographs and negatives is before the courts in Little Rock, Arkansas.

On April 25, New Zealanders around the world will commemorate the centenary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

83:The Holz brothers — Ernest, William and their younger brother Allan — signed up for war on the same day.

Our countdown begins to the 100-year anniversary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

The Herald is publishing a series of video diaries to mark the Gallipoli centenary. This week, we’re telling the stories of five New Zealand residents with strong ties.

Our countdown begins to the 100-year anniversary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

Auckland Museum is host to more than 100 fragments of Sir Edmund Hillary's life. Here are 10 objects from Auckland Museum's Hillary collection.

One hundred years ago, a teenaged Josip Babich removed the boots in which he'd trudged through muddy swamps searching for kauri gum - and trampled delicate grapes with his bare feet.