Archaeologists say they have found physical proof that some of the earliest British settlers in America resorted to cannibalism to survive.

For centuries it was thought to be a legend - a city of extraordinary wealth referred to by Homer, visited by Helen of Troy and her lover Paris, but apparently lost under the sea.

On Anzac Day people in this part of the world commemorate the cost of war, loved ones lost, families ripped apart and lives forever changed, writes Ulrike McCullagh.

Harry "Middy" Middleton spoke very few words about the Great War.

It had been a long time since busy mum Kylie Perry had taken a day off work to stay home with her pair of boisterous pre-schoolers.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mt Everest, a new book published this week collects photographs from the other New Zealander in the 1953 British Everest Expedition.

A holocaust survivor and one of the last remaining Jews to be saved by Oskar Schindler hopes her story can help prevent the horrors she witnessed happening again.

After nine years of hogging the limelight, Robert Muldoon found himself on the fringe in 1984. Four months earlier, the self-assured strongman had lost the general election. Just hours before this photo, he lost the National Party leadership.

For the next five months, in a small gallery at the Auckland Museum, Sir Edmund Hillary will once more climb the world's highest mountain.

A grass-roots protest against a planned Rotorua Eastern Arterial (REA) route is gaining momentum with hundreds of people taking to the internet to voice their opposition.

New Zealand could play a role in repealing Papua New Guinean sorcery legislation following an Easter "witch-hunt", Amnesty International says.

These days your "mobile communications centre" fits in the palm of your hand - but in 1992 you needed a custom-built car to take work on the road.

Alexia Santamaria joins Mt Maunganui's magnificent men in their flying machines.

Police are considering trying to ban gang patches in New Brighton, Christchurch, after a flare up between gang members and ongoing intimidation.

When confronted with a truly gruesome historical visage, the inclination of many people is to avert their gaze, in the hope something unseen becomes unknown, and then eventually forgotten.

Oscar-winning movie Argo cut New Zealand out of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis credits, but former NZ Embassy worker Maureen Campbell-White wants to set the record straight.

You could tell what type of man Captain James Cook was by looking at his signatures, says a historian.

Around 100,000 people are expected at Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland today for the annual Pasifika festival.

Meet the iwi who have fought for years to restore the reputation of Mokomoko, wrongly hanged for a notorious murder.

Experts claim to have solved one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century: the real cause of the Hindenburg air disaster. And they name static electricity as the culprit.