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.

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

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

Arrests and sackings of those allegedly linked to a failed coup plot in Turkey intensified today as authorities fired 8000 police officers

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.

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.

A Kiwi who helped discover a Lithuanian escape tunnel used by Jewish prisoners in World War II, says the project was a "real eye opener".

Thousands of children across the country are spending most or all their years of education in a poorly performing school. EU leaders have responded angrily to Nigel Farage attending the European Parliament in its first debate since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.

Ten young New Zealand students are travelling to France in September to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

Agreement on a definitive ceasefire is one of the last steps towards ending Latin America's longest civil war.

The Kiwi and Australian commandos of elite special unit ZSU, many of whom died without their family ever knowing what they did, will finally be recognised.

Letters written 100 years ago by a NZ sailor have revealed how he survived a catastrophic naval battle in World War I by smearing his body with heavy oil.

Families of a forgotten World War II crack commando unit are calling on Govt to officially recognise their behind-enemy-lines feats more than 70 years on.