Sports writer Dan Coyle tells Phil Taylor about his long battle to cut through the PR myths surrounding Lance Armstrong and organised doping in cycling.

Irfan Yusuf says if Muslims took time to see just how bad the video is, they might realise it's not worth getting so upset about.

With our troops pulling out of Afghanistan next year, one big question remains on whether the mission was worth it. Richard Jackson and Alexander Gillespie debate the issue.

The three soldiers who were killed in a bombing in Afghanistan on the weekend returned home today in an emotional ceremony in Christchurch. Corporal Luke Tamatea, 31, Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, 26, and Private Richard Harris, 21, died instantly when a 20kg roadside improvised explosive device destroyed their Humvee in Afghanistan's northeast Bamiyan Province on Sunday.