It's Hungary's Holocaust memorial year - but why are Jewish groups in the country intending to boycott all state-organised events?

Buyer of Remuera plot will have to obey wealthy mansion owner's height restrictions.

A little piece of Sir Edmund Hillary's family history - a century-old villa belonging to his grandmother - was removed from its site in Mt Eden last week.

You never know what might fall out of some old albums that cost 50 cents each at a yard sale.

A new finding about the domestication of camels in Israel casts doubt on the historical accuracy of some Bible stories.

Burrowing bunnies have uncovered an 8,000-year old treasure trove buried near Land’s End in the United Kingdom.

Britain should not have gone to war in 1914 and the decision to do so was the "biggest error in modern history", according to historian Niall Ferguson.

Chinese businessman who arrived as a boy in 1939 can look back on 75 years of fruitful life in NZ as a proud Kiwi.

Dionne Christian gets a fascinating insight into our city's history.

It's called a Papahu, it lived 19 to 22 million years ago and scientists believe the newly recognised dolphin fossil from NZ is the first of its kind ever found.

Begin atop Maungawhau (Mt Eden, mountain of the whau tree) and imagine classical Maori society.

Friendliness and a can-do attitude top a list of traits that New Zealanders think reflect our national identity.

An Otago University scientist may have unravelled a 2000-year-old mystery of what killed Alexander the Great.

'Nothing was located.' A jet-skier's reported sighting of a World War Two sea mine sparked a fruitless search in Lyttelton Harbour.

The original Christian saint of secret gift-giving and children was St Nicholas, a fourth-century Greek bishop, whose feast day is December 6.

The Queen has pardoned computing pioneer Alan Turing of the "gross indecency" conviction he received for having sex with a man.

Three members of New Zealand’s delegation will not be able to attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral after the South African government imposed a strict two-person limit.

PM John Key says a 'good blend' of people will represent NZ at Nelson Mandela's funeral - despite criticism anti-apartheid campaigner John Minto's not one of them.

President Barack Obama gave a sombre address at the White House on the loss of Nelson Mandela, with whom he shares the distinction of being his nation's first black president:

Bassett Rd machinegun murders 50 years ago solved swiftly but mystery remains over one of the gunmen

A US court says negligence was not to blame for a third World Trade Center tower collapse on September 11, absolving a developer of the building's destruction.

As the centenary of the crossword approaches, Gyles Brandreth and his daughter Saethryd explain why the word puzzle is still so popular.

Philip Temple asks: "A waste of time. A waste of money. The government takes no notice. What's the point of non-binding referendums? How come we have them anyway?"