The success of a film about France's role in sending Jewish families to concentration camps surprised its writer-director, reports Peter Calder.

A New Zealand SAS soldier has died after being shot in the head in an ongoing assault on a group of insurgents in Afghanistan. The soldier was killed while supporting an assault on an insurgent team in the Afghan capital Kabul.

Questionable laws, dubious wars and some airport inconvenience are how the average Kiwi sums up the legacy of the 9/11 terror attacks in the US.

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