Afghanistan will be on the agenda when Prime Minister John Key meets United Nations and Nato leaders in New York this week.

After six decades apart, the labels' present day bosses are to bury the hatchet.

Osama bin Laden has allegedly said in a new audiotape that President Obama's Afghanistan strategy is "hopeless" and has called on the US to end the Afghanistan war and break its alliance with Israel.

One of the few remaining New Zealanders who flew in the Battle of Britain has died in Hastings at the age of 92.

Crack SAS troops are back on the ground in Kandahar, and New Zealand’s regular forces are preparing to return to Bamyan. David Fisher discovers the increasing threats they face in the world’s most dangerous nation

The Government has been secretly sending intelligence operatives to take part in the war in Afghanistan.

Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation centre, lined people against a wall and shot 17 dead in Mexico. Photo / AP

A Sri Lankan reporter has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for writing articles critical of the government's military operations.