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.

A look back at the key events in the life of Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans.

A monument built to celebrate friendship between Turkey and Armenia is being dismantled.

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.

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

It has been easy to honour service in World War II. No other war, including World War I, has had such just cause.

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

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.

The first airman awarded the Victoria Cross was of Maori descent. His story inspired a local documentary, timed for release on Anzac Day, writes Jacqueline Smith.

While many will be up early on Monday for dawn services, for those who prefer to stay in their pyjamas, but still pay their respects, Maori Television's Anzac Day coverage starts at 5.50am.

New documents have raised questions over Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.

Relief operations in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata could involve 1000 European Union ground troops.

A German-Jewish man's lost hoard of gold, which lay buried in a London garden for 70 years, has been returned to his family.