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.

A huge camp-out at Ellerslie Racecourse that was to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings has been canned just weeks before the event.

Killer robots sent to fight in wars could save soldiers' lives and ultimately reduce civilian casualties, according to a top US roboticist.

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.

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?"

Once the stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi, the coastal town of Sirte has now been transformed into a symbol of the insidious rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya.

77: Father James Joseph McMenamin served selflessly and paid the ultimate sacrifice as a Catholic chaplain to the Armed Forces in the Great War.

76: Charlie Savory was one tough rooster. He had a reputation for never taking a backward step in not one, but two, rugby codes.

Police have apologised to the families of three London girls who flew to Turkey to join Isis (Islamic State) in Syria after it emerged that officers failed to alert them that a schoolfriend of the trio had left to join the militants.

75: It was late in the day before New Zealand appointed war artists to document the conflict.

It is spring in Tokyo, but Toshiko Takagi cannot bear to see office workers sitting beneath cherry blossom in the parks that dot the Sumida district where she lives.

One of the lesser-noted points in Prime Minister John Key's speech last year on the New Zealand response to the crisis caused by Isis was that "we will be looking at further assistance to meet....

74: Conditions on board the troopship SS Arawa were stifling.

The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has announced it is joining Isis by apparently releasing an audio statement swearing allegiance.

The Protected Objects Act plays an important role in safeguarding this country's heritage. But there will be times when the ministry should not be straitjacketed by the act.

The bravery of 14 NZ soldiers awarded the Victoria Cross during WWI have been commemorated by the UK government.

Labour is calling on the Government to buy the war medals of Kiwi “Dambusters” veteran Les Munro to keep them in New Zealand.

73: A legacy of New Zealand's wartime presence in England is still visible on the Salisbury Plains.

'It's not every day you get a note on behalf of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.' Service medal arrives for brave Stan.