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Gillard vows troops will stay in Afghanistan
Australian troops will remain in Afghanistan - possibly beyond the present exit target of 2014.
Australian troops will remain in Afghanistan - possibly beyond the present exit target of 2014.
Sixteen veterans of the Battle of Crete where 671 New Zealanders were killed 70 years ago were honoured today, with wreaths laid at the National War Memorial to mark the battle.
The Queen was given a warm welcome during an emotional visit to Ireland's Croke Park sports ground, site of an infamous 1920 massacre.
A US family's home has ended up on the Mexican side of a border fence dividing the two countries.
Moment fight breaks out between Russian and Ukrainian representatives while attending a conference in Turkey. Video / via Twitter
Hone Harawira has described Osama bin Laden as "a man who fought for the rights, the land and the freedom of his people".
Australia's sovereign wealth fund dumped holdings in mine and cluster-bomb makers.
The death of Osama bin Laden will aid those who want New Zealand troops out of Afghanistan.
If there is a day that a 'war on terror' can end, it might have been yesterday.
US President Barack Obama says Osama bin Laden was a mass murderer and a terrorist.
Anzac Day theft angers war veterans, who see it as an insult to servicemen and their families.
John Key's decision to join the citizens of French town Le Quesnoy in their annual commemorations has started a new chapter in what Mr Key has called "a precious link with the town".
On May 27, 1942, two Czech parachutists ambushed and wounded SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich near Prague. Heydrich was not seriously wounded but a ricochet bullet had carried cloth, wire and wool into the wound.
It makes Alfrieda Thompson smile wryly that her war-hero father named her after a girlfriend he had during World War I.
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.
It has been easy to honour service in World War II. No other war, including World War I, has had such just cause.