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Once more onto the beach
Backed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, The Pacific is the biggest television production ever mounted.

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

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

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

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

Kiwi war hero inspired by fallen commander
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.

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

Tourists warned: no jandals at Gallipoli
Leave your jandals at home and behave with dignity is the advice to Kiwis thinking of going to Gallipoli for the 95th commemoration of the Allied landing in World War 1.

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