Viewers of The Pacific will be rewarded if they can stand the gritty reality, writes Pacific War veteran Harry Bioletti.

New Zealand soldiers serving in Afghanistan came under enemy fire for the second time in five months after they were attacked by insurgents yesterday.

Writer Peter Nowak starts his survey of technology by linking war, porn and fast food - the idea surfaced after he saw the lurid sex tape of Paris Hilton.

A Pakistani newspaper editor who twice interviewed Osama bin Laden explains why he believes the world's most wanted man is still alive.

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

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

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.