After decades of inter-marrying and living in relative harmony, Rwandan Hutus rose en masse and began mutilating, raping, torturing and murdering their Tutsi neighbours.

Gallipoli means more to New Zealanders than words can convey. But when the names of Mary and Doug Hill were drawn from the ballot this week for places at the 100th Anzac Day, the moment was especially poignant.

The Prime Minister is probably not correct to say few New Zealanders know what happened at Orakau.

Prime Minister John Key acknowledges the New Zealand Wars as an important part of the country's history but says a national holiday to commemorate them is unlikely.

He was Rome's first emperor, the founder of a world-dominating imperial dynasty, and a builder of roads and stunning temples.

A Singapore-based Kiwi couple were among 950 NZers selected from a ballot to attend the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landing in Gallipoli next year.

New Zealanders who have been drawn from the Gallipoli 2015 ballot will be notified from today.

A vintage relationship guide aimed at women reveals the outrageous sexism practiced by men during the Forties.

Nasa has revealed that one twin will be put in a rocket and the other kept on the ground as part of a study on the effects of orbiting the Earth.

A decade after it premiered, Deadwood remains a sharp and stylish work, with a surprising amount of optimism, writes Robert Smith.

Whatever you're doing this Monday, wherever you might be, take a moment to reflect on the most popular word in the English language, OK?

Imagine a world in which the advances of the science since the publication of 'On the Origin of Species' - or even since Charles Darwin was born - were ignored.

In a year that is unusually crowded with historical commemorations, one that may escape attention is the 170th anniversary of the flagpole in Russell.

Modern civilisation is heading for collapse within a matter of decades, according to a scientific study funded by Nasa.

Greg Dixon talks to Kiwi actress Chelsie Preston Crayford about her bohemian childhood and why she resisted going into showbiz.

Warm, wet weather spanning several decades helped one of history's most fearsome tyrants to conquer most of Asia and Eastern Europe.

The pillars that form Stonehenge may have been chosen because they were like sacred "prehistoric glockenspiels", according to researchers.

In February 1974 geologist Jim Bowles came across a 42,000-year-old skeleton in a dry lake bed in outback New South Wales.

The new police commissioner is not intending to apologise directly to Arthur Allan Thomas despite a plea from his brother, who says the public apology was "half-hearted''.

The brother of Arthur Allan Thomas says new police commissioner should apologise to Mr Thomas directly for a recent eulogy and ensure resolving the Crewe murders has priority.

A gem found on a sheep ranch in Australia has been found to have formed 4.4 billion years ago - making it the oldest piece of our planet ever recorded.

Even by the Byzantine standards of global antiquities theft the case of Subhash Kapoor is jaw-dropping.

It was February 11, 1864 and the invading British forces advanced deeper into the Waikato heartland, closing in on the Maori King Movement's agricultural base.