She was immortalised on the cover of National Geographic magazine as a green-eyed 12-year-old girl. Her life has taken yet another a tragic turn.

Airstrikes by the United States-led coalition appear to have killed hundreds of civilians in Syria, a leading rights group said yesterday.

A woman whose family had to flee war-torn Kurdistan before she was born is making it her mission to help her people in her homeland.

COMMENT: It is time to sober up. The superpowers are drunk on rhetoric, mistrust and posturing. They are dragging us all towards the brink.

With four children to support, this couple have turned to the only way they can make money - killing.

Flaws in the water piping system mean it freezes during winter. To prevent pipes bursting, the water is turned off to most of the cabins.

Thousands of gay and bisexual men convicted of abolished sexual offences in the UK are to be posthumously pardoned.

Controversial President Rodrigo Duterte has already told Barack Obama to "go to hell". Now he has struck another blow against the US.

They survived Boko Haram, now millions are at risk of starvation. It has been described as one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.

The garden will be completed in time for the centenary of Passchendaele, finally a place of peace where far too many young NZers died in the horror of war.

A piece of hallowed ground in Belgium which holds in its grasp the remains of hundreds of NZ soldiers is still claiming victims a century after WWI.

A garden made for contemplation on a World War One battlefield where New Zealand soldiers faced "hell on earth" will be built here and shipped to Europe.

COMMENT: Paul Thomas is from a remarkable family of eight boys and three girls. All eight boys served in the New Zealand army. Five saw active duty.

Watch NZH Focus: A Kiwi face transplant surgeon has lead his team in transplanting two donor arms to a retired marine who lost all four limbs in Afghanistan.

Lawyers and activists in the Philippines fear that drug users who sign up to the government's amnesty end up on so-called "kill lists".

India has started constructing underground bunkers along its frontier with Pakistan in Kashmir amid fears they are preparing for a major escalation.

Up to 100 New Zealand soldiers' bodies could be brought home from overseas, after the Government confirmed it was reviewing its policy on repatriation.

It has long been suspected that Adolf Hitler's frenzied speeches were fuelled by cocaine and other powerful stimulants.

A Syrian rescue worker has been filmed breaking down in tears as he heroically pulled a 30-day-old baby girl from the rubble of a

On a clear afternoon last Monday a line of humanitarian aid trucks eased to a stop in front of a cluster of warehouses packed with aid supplies 24km outside the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Like many of the 400,000 items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall since 1982, sculpture of soldier's head has a story to tell.

An explosion in New York yesterday that saw 29 people injured has been labelled intentional after a second device was found, Trans Tasman Resources face more opposition this morning as a petition to halt all seabed mining is delivered to parliament, and Lydia Ko takes home another trophy.

The 100th anniversary of the First World War in France has been marked in a formal ceremony in Wellington this morning.

'I love stories when long lost items are repatriated to their owners or relatives, but being someone who could solve the mystery was a surprising thrill,' says Milne.

Among the headstones of those who never returned home, hundreds gathered in the tiny town of Longueval, in northern France.

Watch NZH Focus: Liam Malone storms ahead to win his second gold of the Paralympics in the the Men's 400m T44 in Rio. Prince Charles honours thousands of soldiers from New Zealand and other Pacific islands killed 100 years at Battle of the Somme. And Hillary Clinton returns to the campaign trail after a bout of pneumonia that side-lined her for three days.

It's 100 years to the day that New Zealand troops joined the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Prince Charles paid tribute to New Zealand's role in war.

The death of a 1-year-old Nigerian baby had many authors - Boko Haram's viciousness, his own government's negligence, and starvation's relentlessness.

It's 100 years to the day that New Zealand ground troops joined the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Kieran Campbell is in France for the commemorations.

Thousands of Kiwis died in the Battle of the Somme. Commemorations marking the centenary of their sacrifice start in France start this afternoon.