The story of Gallipoli is the one most often told but New Zealand experienced deep sorrow on the Western Front too.

Watch NZH focus - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was unwell and seen "fainting" at a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11. At least 90 people are dead after airstrikes continued to rain in north-western Syria. And hundreds of firefighters are battling to contain wildfires on the northern Greek island of Thassos.

The organisers of a record art fundraiser, which raised $1 million to save an historic soldiers' church in Auckland, are celebrating a new achievement.

George W Bush's reaction to the 9/11 attacks in America has been detailed in full for the first time by his press secretary.

Watch NZH Focus: President Barack Obama says Republican Donald Trump isn't qualified to be president and "every time he speaks that opinion is confirmed. Actress and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie attends a UN peacekeeping conference in London. And Turkey suspends more than 11 thousand teachers over their suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Comment: What has the so-called 'War on Terror' achieved a decade and a half after 9/11?

COMMENT: The word on the streets is that Islamic State (Isis or Isil to its many enemies) is going under.

Watch NZH Focus: As the ASEAN meeting gets underway in Laos, Prime ministers John Key and Malcolm Turnbull have publicly declared their status as “Best Friends Forever”. Police in Paris arrest a man after his car was found near the Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas cylinders inside. and The inclusion of a fit-again Ryan Crotty at second five is the only change to the All Blacks starting fifteen to face Argentina on Saturday.

Watch NZH Focus: A strong aftershock rocks the North Island's east coast, a 5.7 magnitude quake struck at 3.19 this morning. President Barack Obama becomes the first sitting US president to visit the isolated, landlocked Southeast Asian nation of Laos. And Mel Gibson’s new movie the World War II action drama ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ premieres to rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival.

COMMENT: Three airmen died six years ago on Anzac Day. Why are their families still awaiting full accountability?

Before he drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, all 3-year-old Alan Kurdi knew was war. But for a moment his tragic death seemed not to be pointless. Warning - graphic.

The remains of a New Zealand soldier killed in World War I have been identified more than a century after his death.

Watch NZH Focus: Turkey launches its first major ground assault into Syria since the country's civil war began. And the legendary white-and-blue pinstriped suit famously worn by Micheal Jackson in the short film for “Smooth Criminal” goes on show. Also the 31st World Bog Snorkelling Championships take place in Wales

Watch NZH Focus: Hundreds of aftershocks continue to rock central Italy, hampering search efforts following Wednesday’s deadly earthquake. And WikiLeaks plan to release "significant" information about Hillary Clinton before the November election. Also Dwayne Johnson becomes the highest-paid actor with a fast and furious income of nearly 88 million dollars.

Watch NZH Focus: About 170 team members of our Olympic team have touched down at Auckland airport this morning. Russia loses its appeal against a ban from next month's Rio Paralympics because of a state-sponsored doping program And a fisherman in the Philippines finds a giant pearl worth as much as 136 million dollars and keeps it under his bed for 10 years.

New Zealand hopes of a breakthrough in Syria during its Presidency of the Security Council next month will be a tough ask if a debate in the Security Council on Monday was anything to go by.

The five-year-old's eyes are glassy with shock and he seems hardly aware of the blood seeping from a wound in his forehead.

Chris Mullane, Infantry Platoon Commander & Barry Dreyer, 161 Battery Artillery Unit reflect on their time during the Vietnam War.

Islamic State has suffered a blow after the leader of the group's Afghanistan and Pakistan branches was killed in a US drone strike, the Pentagon says.

Memories flooded back for Alan Frewer as he soared into the skies over North Canterbury in a Spitfire.

Watch NZH Focus: President Barack Obama attacks Donald Trump saying he’s entirely unfit to serve as president. Thousands attend the funeral of French priest Father Jacques Hamel, who was murdered in his church by Islamist extremists.

After years of silence, commandos' remarkable efforts recognised.

10 new cases of Zika in Florida prompt health officials to advise pregnant women to avoid an area just north of downtown Miami. A Russian military helicopter is shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province killing all five people on board. More than 1,000 migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya by the Italian coastguard.

COMMENT: Ghazala Khan's son, US Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004. This is her response to Donald Trump.

Watch NZH Focus: The father of a slain Muslim American soldier has described Donald Trump as having a 'black soul'.

On NZ Herald Focus, Donald Trump has appealed to Russia to release emails that Hillary Clinton did not hand over.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has appealed to Russia to uncover and release thousands of emails that Hillary Clinton did not hand over to U.S. officials as part of a probe into the use of her private email system. Pope Francis says that a string of recent attacks, including the murder of a priest in France, was proof that the "world is at war".

Watch NZH focus: A 84-year-old priest in northern France has been killed and four other people were taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church. A Kiwi has smashed the world sheep shearing record in England, Matt Smith, averaged 81 sheep an hour. And Pokemon takes India by storm.

Watch NZH Focus: A boy has been pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed by bombs in the rebel-held Aleppo neighbourhood of Mashhad. A record number of condoms will be given to athletes as they arrive at the Olympic village in Rio.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Police in Brazil arrest 10 people on suspicion of belonging to a group supporting Islamic State and preparing acts of terrorism during next month's Olympics in Rio Also Russia has lost its appeal against the ban on 68 track and field athletes from competing in the Olympics. And Joseph Parker's victory over Solomon Haumono in Christchurch ended in controversy after the Australian's camp filed an official protest