Do you remember where you were when you heard my father had died, asks Holly Donald, daughter of Rod.

TV's most famous Time Lord popped up simultaneously in nearly 100 countries on Saturday - in a special 50th anniversary episode of the BBC's cult sci-fi series Doctor Who.

Forget the horned helmet warrior image, archaeologists say early Norsemen were farmers with refined tastes.

The battle of Rangiriri - one of the decisive battles of the Waikato War - took place on November 20, 1863, and the 150th anniversary of the battle is being commemorated at the battle site.

At first reluctant to don the flowing frocks, four North Shore teenagers were soon parading around Takapuna in their fancy dress.

From resident ghosts to kegs hidden in mud, Danielle Wright finds intriguing history at our historic hotels.

The ballot opens at midday today for those wanting to attend the centenary Anzac Day commemorations in Gallipoli in 2015.

A website featuring artworks from among a massive trove discovered in a Munich apartment crashed because of heavy traffic, officials said, as a handful of potential heirs came forward to claim art possibly looted by the Nazis.

"We will remember them," says the "Ode of Remembrance" recited around the world each Armistice Day.

Old soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder with serving troops this morning to commemorate Armistice Day on the 95th anniversary of the end of World War I.

It started with a routine check by German tax inspectors - and resulted in the discovery of an art hoard so vast and spectacular that no one yet knows how the story truly ends.

From Earth's End tells the tumultuous story of the outrageous talents and idealistic publishers who created the Kiwi comic industry, writes Robert Smith.

Legendary Australian Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson may have starved one of his companions to death and then eaten his flesh.

The claim that Adolf Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker to live incognito in Argentina first gained currency in 1945, when Joseph Stalin spoke of it.

Auction of post 1940s, mainly locally made playthings a history lesson for young at heart.

A man with a history of mental illness was hoping to see Queen Elizabeth II when he tried to rush through a Buckingham Palace gate carrying a six-inch (15-cm) knife, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone says Breaking Bad's finale would be "laughed off the screen" if it was shown in a cinema.

With Ten Guitars ringing in her ears a veteran publican recalls the six o'clock swill and drinkers' cunning lurks.