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Craig replaces Sir David Attenborough as new voice
Daniel Craig has been signed up to replace famed broadcaster Sir David Attenborough as the voice of Britain's BBC nature documentaries.

Theatre Preview: Mary Stuart, Maidment Theatre
The play Mary Stuart brings Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots face-to-face, as played by two of our own leading ladies.

Jim Hopkins: Move over, Don - today it's love and who's wearing what
"We have a lot more to remember than you people will ever have." A World War II veteran, speaking on radio last Tuesday.

No love lost between Turkey and Armenia
A monument built to celebrate friendship between Turkey and Armenia is being dismantled.

American beauties up for auction
Six striking American cars from a period spanning 40 years are among 27 classic vehicles that will go under the hammer in Sydney on May 2.

Youngest on Hillary's Everest team dies
Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest member of the climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest, has died.

Anzac Day: World War II
With flames spreading rapidly though his bomber aircraft, 22-year-old Sergeant Jimmy Ward tied a rope around his waist and crawled out on to the wing to douse the flames.

Anzac Day: World War I
It makes Alfrieda Thompson smile wryly that her war-hero father named her after a girlfriend he had during World War I.

Editorial: We must keep honouring all who serve
It has been easy to honour service in World War II. No other war, including World War I, has had such just cause.

Memories more sweet than bitter
The firefight between a nine-strong patrol and up to 80 Viet Cong was one of the New Zealand Army's bravest battles, facing almost insurmountable odds. Nearly 43 years later, the men of Victor 3 One platoon met again for the first time.

Life and death in Flanders fields
The history of New Zealand at war is largely one of ordinary people called upon in extraordinary times - men and women who left their day jobs when their country called them. In Kiwi Battlefields, Ron Palenski tells how one such man