Karakia and waiata mixed with strains of bagpipes and brass as Korean War veterans from New Zealand and 10 other countries reunited to pay their respects yesterday.

Growing up in a small house in a new subdivision on the rural fringe of West Auckland, Paul Moon never aspired to be an All Black.

The problem with the conventional account of NZ's discovery is that it presumes only the first arrival in the country by a culture constitutes an act of discovery.

A team of Israeli archaeologists thinks it has found the ruins of a palace belonging to the biblical King David, but other Israeli experts dispute the claim.

Scotland's independence referendum has not just ignited furious debate over the country's future; it has also started a renewed fascination among film-makers.

After 70 years of wondering what he had done wrong to lose his wartime sweetheart, a British man will finally marry his love this weekend.

In a new column, we look at some long-forgotten New Zealand events. Today, the Waikino School shooting of 1923.

The township of Puhoi, north of Auckland, this weekend celebrates 150 years since the arrival of the first group of settlers from Bohemia.

Japan's long marginalised and little-known indigenous people, the Ainu, are engaged in a protracted and symbolic struggle.

Giovanni Palatucci has long been praised as an 'Italian Schindler', but the US Holocaust museum is now removing Giovanni Palatucci from its exhibits after research claimed he was a zealous Nazi collaborator.

The illegitimate daughter of a 19th century British Prime Minister lived and raised a family in New Zealand.

It was 1995, and as Nelson Mandela raised his cap at jam-packed Ellis Park, the Johannesburg crowd rose in a deafening, spine-tingling cheer.

Library curator Robert Eruera has brought New Zealand literary treasures to the public.

History's account of the Third Reich and the extermination of millions of Jews in the Holocaust may have to undergo some revisions.

The memories have come flooding back for three Korean War veterans before the opening of a special photo exhibition that features 150 images taken by Kiwi soldiers.

They ranged from the glamorous and sexy to the functional and the hopeful. Corsets, bras, knickers - some more than 100 years old, others so well loved they had remained in the devoted care of their owners for almost 50 years.

Model mountain at exhibition gives a realistic view on 60th anniversary of Everest ascent.

"I am the last man standing," mountaineer George Lowe wrote in his extraordinary collection of images from the first ascent of Everest.

An abandoned car found by a hunter in the Rangitaiki Forest has been eliminated from the Mona Blades inquiry.

Copper coins and a 70-year-old map with an "x" may lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia's history.

In hindsight, it may not have been such a good idea. No, Constable John Burton isn't hungover. He's not thirsty, nor just in a bad mood.

The Natural History Museum has about 300 experts on its staff.

It has taken more than 100 years to come to light, but the web of intrigue and corruption that toppled China's last emperor has finally been pieced together by a Chinese historian.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, weren't in Babylon at all - but were instead located 480km to the north in Babylon's greatest rival, Nineveh, according to a leading Oxford-based historian.