A century after his death, the family of Second Lieutenant Alexander Ormond have finally been able to honour his sacrifice.

Watch NZH Focus: Leaked emails show the former US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s contempt for both major presidential candidates. Two trucks carrying aid from Turkey have arrived in the northern Syrian town of Jarablus. And the European Space Agency says its mission to chart more than 1 billion stars is on track.

A memorial service marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in which more than 2000 New Zealand troops died.

It is a tiny badge but its significance is harrowing to comprehend.

While Gallipoli resonates more strongly with Kiwis, the casualties at the Somme were worse - where more than 2000 died and another 6000 were injured.

Watch NZH Focus: Donald Trump launches an attack on Hillary Clinton saying “ You cannot run for President if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter and she does”. The former British PM, David Cameron is standing down as a member of Parliament immediately, triggering a by-election. And North Korea is ready to conduct another nuclear test at any time, that’s according to the South Korea's Defence Ministry.

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.

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.

The father of the young Syrian boy pictured washed up on a Turkish beach has accused the world of turning its back on Syria as people continue to die.

Israel has approved 284 housing units in the West Bank, drawing a US accusation that its policies could expand settlements in an "unlimited way".

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: 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.

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.