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.

When German tax authorities entered the home of a recluse collector and found a trove of art that could include works stolen by the Nazis, they stepped into a legal quagmire - one that may end up being resolved by politics as much as the law.

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.

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.

The menacing silhouette of this armed strike-breaker is hardly an image that exudes warmth or attracts support, writes Brian Rudman. Put him back by all means, but in the interests of historical balance, why not an equally menacing wharfie?

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.

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.

As the daughter-in-law rolls open the rusted doors to her garage, light spills onto a small figure on a straw mattress. A curious face peers out.

Paul Rush takes a Magical Mystery Tour down memory lane.