COMMENT: Yesterday our nation paused just before one o'clock to remember.

How many languages can you speak? Hamilton resident Christian Damba knows eight languages and is now adding Te Reo as his ninth. - Made with funding from NZ on Air

Joyce Luma, head of the United Nation's World Food Programme in South Sudan, called the famine "man-made".

The wife of the pilot and war hero killed when his helicopter crashed as he fought the Port Hills fires is "amazed" by the support for her family.

A genetically engineered virus is easier to make and could kill more people than nuclear weapons, says Bill Gates.

Wreaths laid on beach where Japanese soldiers ordered nurses to walk into the sea and then shot.

A simple Christmas Day text exchange has snowballed into a nightmare for Donald Trump, and it is nowhere near ending.

Russian media denied that chemical attacks had taken place, depicting rescue workers as jihadist militants and doctors as propagandist purveyors of "fake news".

A Hungarian Jew who survived Auschwitz and the Scottish soldier who helped save her will mark their 71st Valentine's Day together tomorrow.

COMMENT: Could an American president start a nuclear war without going through the checks and balance of the American Congress? The short answer is yes.

The Prince of Wales has warned the world is in danger of "forgetting the lessons of the past" in a speech about the Holocaust.

Astonishing link uncovered between Kiwi soldier who died in Gallipoli and bloodied Turkish family heirloom.

A 94-year-old veteran has taken to the skies in a World War Two plane, in what is likely to be his last ever flight.

A rare 1945 Douglas DC3, owned by Air Chathams, and touched down at Whanganui Airport. Made with funding from NZ On Air

A World War II bomb found in the River Thames has led to two of London's busiest bridges being closed.

The Fuhrer may have used a secret runway to escape his Berlin bunker and flee to South America in a Luftwaffe plane.

COMMENT: New Zealanders deserve to know why the issue of settlements has become so challenging, and why it came before the council in December

John Gregson, who has died aged 92, won the George Cross for saving the life of a shipmate during a torpedo attack in the Mediterranean in 1942.

A New Zealand man awarded the highest award for civilian bravery has died. John Gregson, 91, received the George Cross in 2014 for his actions during WWII.

A truce aimed at ending the bloody five-year war in Syria has been announced. But what does it mean?

Tens of thousands of people from east Aleppo as well as two Shi'ite villages in Syria's Idlib province have been evacuated.

New Zealand is increasing aid to those affected by six years of bloody civil war in Syria.

COMMENT: The situation is complex even for the people who live there, let alone us trying to understand it. None of our business.

Seven policemen, two Jordanian civilians and one Canadian tourist were killed on Sunday.

Details of the construction of the top secret spy base at Tangimoana were filed with Archives New Zealand with no security rating.

Of all the events of 2016, the Syrian conflict has been the darkest.

Even though the city he grew up in has been largely destroyed by war, Ibrahim Abu Laith says he will return.

Sweden's towns and villages have been ordered to prepare for a possible military attack.

Four and a half years and hundreds of thousands of deaths later, the end of the rebellion in Syria is drawing near.

COMMENT: This month marks 100th anniversary of first sedition convictions after the passage of Military Service Act 1916, which brought in conscription.