When a handful of surviving veterans of the legendary 28th Maori Battalion rose yesterday, they knew they had one more special mission.

"I felt I had done my best for them, but I failed. I felt it was a tragedy I had tried to stop and didn't".

Christian communities across Pakistan have launched angry protests after a Muslim mob set fire to a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore.

In India recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron rightly refused to apologise for the 1919 Amritsar massacre.

Christian community leaders in Lahore say the violence unleashed on the Pakistani city's Joseph colony erupted after a drinking session involving two friends, one Muslim and the other Christian.

Kadom al-Jabouri became the face of the fall of Baghdad but the "sledgehammer man" furiously regrets the symbolism of what he was involved in 10 years ago.

Pakistan is ripping itself apart, one minority at a time, says Irfan Yusuf.

Russia has been accused by Western diplomats of reneging on a pledge to stop supplying arms to the Syrian regime.

Joseph Stalin's son surrendered to the Germans during the Nazis' 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, new evidence found in Russian archives suggests.

New balloting rules will mean 2000 New Zealanders get the chance to go to Gallipoli in 2015 for the 100th anniversary of the battles.

When Chris Kyle returned home from Iraq after serving as a Navy Seal, he felt disconnected, unable to talk about his experiences.

Lupe Fiasco has been rushed off stage at a pre-inauguration concert for Barack Obama after performing an anti-war song telling the audience he did not vote for the President.

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are collaborating on a third World War II mini-series.

New Zealand's overseas defence force personnel will be turning to heavy doses of Skype tomorrow for a link with home on Christmas Day.

Editorial: The situation in Syria is "bad and getting worse", according to a joint statement released yesterday after talks in Geneva between the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the Arab League.

North Korea said it will launch a long-range rocket in mid-December, a provocative move just eight months after a failed attempt violated a United Nations ban.

There was rioting in the streets and parts of Honiara were burning to the ground in protest at the recent elections.

Sol Te Whata, 95 today, reckons his uncle's blessing before he left for World War II was one of the things that brought him home safely.