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.

It seems a story straight from a Cold War thriller - only the case of Camp Century is 100 per cent fact.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Some say that time heals all wounds. Old soldiers disagree. For them, the scars of war are always there.

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.

Ongoing escalations in the South and East China Seas have some analysts daring to wonder who would win a war.

Theresa May is chosen as the new leader of the Conservative Party and UK prime minister. Golfers, Jordan Speith, Jason Day, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy have all opted out of the Rio Olympics.

Hundreds march in New York City for the third night to protest police abuses against black people. Tears of joy from Andy Murray after becoming Wimbledon champion for a second time.

Relatives of Marie Colvin, a Sunday Times journalist, have filed a lawsuit claiming that Syrian government officials killed her.

Why Rania believed there should've been no excuses for the Sky Tower to be lit in the colours of the Iraqi flag to support the Baghdad bombing victims.

COMMENT: Blistering summary exposes Tony Blair's failures, writes Toby Manhire.

John Chilcot produced his verdict on the Blair Government's decision to join the US' invasion of Iraq. None of its findings are a surprise.

Suicide bombers suspected of links to Isis struck for the fourth time in less than a week when they targeted three locations in Saudi Arabia.

Tell Obama his drone operations are unacceptable, writes Brian Rudman.

Six years in the making, a report into the UK's involvement in the Iraq war will be released this Thursday and families of fallen soldiers are planning to boycott what they believe will be a vindication of Tony Blair going to war

Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and memory keeper of the Holocaust, dies at 87.