Britain has expelled a senior Israeli official from London in the latest fallout from the murder of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

Margaret Moth came to prominence after being almost killed when she was shot in the face covering the war in Sarajevo.

Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.

A US general has sparked fury in the Netherlands by suggesting gay Dutch troops were partly to blame for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

A terrifyingly realistic report on Georgian TV - simulating a massive invasion by Russia - caused widespread panic in the country.

Jos has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim-dominated north and predominantly Christian south.

An emotional hospital-bed email has revealed how the heroics of a Kiwi soldier who saved the lives of two comrades under heavy Taleban gunfire were inspired by his fallen commander.

Defence Force troops are less likely to be injured on missions in war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq than they are at home base.

How the Nazis hoodwinked British scoutmaster Lord Baden-Powell into aligning the boy scouts with the Hitler Youth.

NZ's elite SAS troops have been involved in another firefight in Afghanistan, and once again press photographers have captured them in action.

France deliberately exposed 300 of its conscripts to an atomic bomb test in the Sahara in 1961.