Dug out of a car park five centuries after his mutilated body was unceremoniously interred, England's Richard III will finally be given a burial fit for a king.

The man hailed as the "Father of Auckland" was modest and meticulous and liked to keep the record straight when it came to tales of his noble deeds.

What has happened to the gun turret of the Achilles which was on display at a scrap metal yard in Neilson St in Onehunga?

A fledgling Auckland was not only built on volcanoes but created from them - through the hard graft of Maori stonemasons, prison inmates and a royal elephant named Tom.

It has been 100 years since the first marlin was caught in New Zealand waters on a rod and line, and game fishermen are celebrating the occasion in the Bay of Islands.

It is spring in Tokyo, but Toshiko Takagi cannot bear to see office workers sitting beneath cherry blossom in the parks that dot the Sumida district where she lives.

This year Auckland very successfully celebrated its 175th birthday. But did we celebrate on the right day?

Hundreds of thousands of German women were raped by British, American and French soldiers after the end of the Second World War, a German historian has claimed.

An exhibition about the Kiwi overseas experience shows New Zealanders have been exploring the world since the early 1900s.

The Gallipoli centennial starts on the Auckland waterfront on Friday when the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth sets up a "poppy wall" which will sail with the ship to Turkey.

Auckland and NZ have won international fame for our America's Cup and round-the-world yachtsmen. Suzanne McFadden charts the way the city and gulf have helped our sailors graduate from banana boxes to world-beaters.

There was only one thing that mildly irked Joyce Irving when she got her performance schedule for A Midsummer Night's Dream: she wouldn't appear every night.

Historians and prophets, by the nature of their vocations, tend to look in opposite directions, writes Paul Moon.

Few people know just how close the Auckland Harbour Bridge came to being lost in the very body of water it was designed to span.

Spain planned to attack Britain's new colony in Australia with a 100-vessel armada as part of an operation to "take the fight to the British in the Pacific", documents show.

Opinion: The disconnect I feel on Australia Day is not a rejection of history. Rather, it is a rejection of the privileging of one version of history at the expense of another.

Jozef Paczynski recalls the "welcome" speech the deputy commandant of Auschwitz gave on his arrival in 1940, down to the last chilling word.

"When I left the CIA, if you were going to ask me, 'Would you write about espionage?' I'd say, 'Absolutely not.' So why are former CIA officers turning up in Hollywood?

62: William Clachan was made of tough stuff. The Wellington schoolteacher was wounded three times on the Western Front.

Philanthropist and economist Gareth Morgan has set out two challenges to the Government at his first visit to Ratana Pa.

Two companies responsible for digging up an archaeologically significant early Maori site have today been convicted and discharged by a judge.

61: Today we might call them special forces. When Robert Kenneth Nicol joined a top secret British Army unit in 1918, it was known as the "hush-hush brigade".

Pakeha nearly "exterminated" Maori and need to make good on the intent of the Treaty - including compulsory te reo in all primary schools, Gareth Morgan says.

A lost documentary Alfred Hitchcock made about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has finally reached screens thanks to movie mogul Brett Ratner.

Survivors who escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz have remembered the horror of the infamous Nazi death camp 70 years after liberation by Red Army soldiers.