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.

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 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.

Nato seems to have written off hopes of an early exit to the Libyan crisis.

Lawyers representing suspected Holocaust camp guard John Demjanjuk have demanded that Germany suspend his war crimes trial.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith has a plan to tear down all barriers to women serving in combat.

Israel's Mossad spy agency has been busy lately, in the war against Hamas.

James Fergusson tells David Larsen that he is less a risk taker than someone who follows stories where they lead.

Fourteen World War I Australian soldiers killed in a 1916 battle have been discovered buried in France.

He went beyond evidence to condemn Israel, says Abraham Rabinovich.

South African judge Richard Goldstone said yesterday that he did not plan to seek nullification of his highly critical United Nations report.