17: Karl Strack risked his life to advance New Zealand over the Germans again and again; we repaid his bravery by blacklisting him.

The people of the mountain can see their villages, and the headlights of the jihadi patrols snaking through the streets they have abandoned, and know they cannot return.

The Sydney grandfather of a 7-year-old boy pictured clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier has urged the Australian Government to bring the boy home.

US air strikes are boosting Kurdish morale as they hit Isis fighters, and a road is now open for thousands of Yazidis cut off in the mountains.

William Burnwas the first New Zealand pilot killed in World War I action.

Among Pam MacDonald's most prized treasures is the black-and-white photograph of her late father cradling her in his arms when she was a baby.

National's election war-chest has been given a half-million dollar boost by the estate of a wealthy Christchurch businessman.

An Australian jihadist has tweeted a photo of his young son holding up a severed head of a dead Syrian soldier.

Prince Harry has recalled the "horrendous" images he saw during two tours of Afghanistan.

The 8-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that.

The spoils of a battle that gave hope to the Allies in their darkest hour will go on sale at a special auction next week.

RSA clubs are moving plaques, paintings and photographs to "freshen up" bars and function rooms, angering vets.

14: One by one the letters arrived in New Zealand informing Gertrude Browne of the saddest news.

Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups driven from their homes for fear of the jihadist group Islamic State are dying of thirst and heat on a desert mountainside.

The first full day of peace reveals the massive reconstruction task ahead.

12: Of all the soldiers who served and died in World War I, few could match the gifts of Hugh Montagu Butterworth in their descriptions of the conflict.

Google is facing criticism for continuing to allow Android mobile users to download a game called "Bomb Gaza".

An Israeli airstrike killed a militant leader in the Gaza Strip last night, as other flashpoints in the wider Middle East flared up in worrying signs of regional instability.

Memories of his service along the Gaza border two years ago have been streaming through the mind of Shai Davidovich this week.

Over the next four years we will learn much about World War I and the suffering that went with it.

One hundred gun shots echoed over Wellington yesterday morning marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I.

11:They served in horrific conditions, and many of those that survived years of war were rewarded with a bullet.

Prime Minister John Key is rejecting claims the Government is too soft on Israel and should expel the Israeli Ambassador.

One hundred gun shots echoed over Wellington today, marking the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI.

10: Harriet Sutton had five sons go to war. Francis and Benjamin never came home. Buried in foreign fields, the grieving mother worried their short lives would be forgotten.