Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make his second official visit to New Zealand next week to take part in the Anzac centenary commemorations.

A week of official events marking the centenary of the Gallipoli landings begins on Saturday with the opening of national war memorial park, the Government announced today.

Herbert A. Knight, a young man who had shown great promise in his hometown of Wanganui, was shot down on May 8, 1915.

Police on both sides of the Tasman are hunting a thief who pinched 12 medals awarded to a Kiwi Anzac who served at Gallipoli.

My great-great-uncle Francis Woodhouse was just 17 when he enlisted to go to war. I bet if he had the luxury of regrets, that would have been his biggest, writes Anna Leask.

A New Zealand soldier's Gallipoli war medals have been stolen from a package sent to Dunedin from Australia.

On April 25, New Zealanders around the world will commemorate the centenary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

One of the biggest deals of the decade has just been concluded. Alexander Gillespie discusses Iran's nuclear concessions.

83:The Holz brothers — Ernest, William and their younger brother Allan — signed up for war on the same day.

A university museum in Japan has broken a seven-decade taboo on discussing the dissection of live American prisoners of war by medical personnel.

The fighting in Yemen threatens to cause widespread hunger and thirst and displace huge numbers of people.

Our countdown begins to the 100-year anniversary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

The Herald is publishing a series of video diaries to mark the Gallipoli centenary. This week, we’re telling the stories of five New Zealand residents with strong ties.

Our countdown begins to the 100-year anniversary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

Agency and United States military personnel have been pulled out of Yemen amid escalating sectarian violence in recent weeks.

82: The 38-year-old Scot George Waugh, who could be "sharp and sarcastic" according to his personal file, was not the only serving vet to die in unusual circumstances.

Labour has attacked the degree of secrecy about the preparation of a New Zealand troop deployment to Iraq.

A few years ago Damascus was a place of calm in a violent region.

Previous experience has been positive and benefits would outweigh the costs.

Ralph Baydoun is a 23-year-old Lebanese videographer based in World Vision's Beirut office and last month we travelled together to some of the more challenging areas of the Middle East - the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and the Lebanon-Syrian border.

A painting that symbolises the pain and tragedy of the failed World War I Gallipoli campaign was sold yesterday to an undisclosed bidder.

79: When World War I broke out, Harper was a 35-year-old father of two and partner at a well-established Christchurch legal practice.

The mystery of how a giant flag that flew at Gallipoli a century ago came to hang in a New Zealand church has been solved by a naval historian.

I first met Reverend Harold Good eight years ago in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Spare a thought for our Prime Minister. The price of "club" membership is to take New Zealand into a war not of our making, training troops who were once our enemy.

78: As HMS Queen sailed towards Gallipoli Peninsula, anxious troops sat holding their helmets under a giant white ensign fluttering in the morning breeze.

He looks downwards and shakes his head in response to my question, "What do you hope for?"