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.

On the morning of July 15, Moscow was as hot as an oven.

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.

The neglected burial site of Sapper Robert Hislop, mourned a century ago as NZ's first casualty of World War I, is expected to become an official war grave.

The entrance is a deep vertical shaft, usually hidden in a house. It drops down a dozen metres or so before reaching a horizontal passage.

One hundred years ago on Tuesday, a tense crowd of 12,000 gathered at Parliament to hear confirmation of what they already knew - the young nation of New Zealand was going to war.

The family of a young soldier who was given a military farewell as New Zealand's first casualty of World War I wants his neglected burial site honoured as an official war grave.

9: They were the first New Zealanders on the Western Front, arriving in France in the cold spring of 1916.

Wearing a bright hijab, black blazer and long denim skirt, Mariam Abultewi sat in a taxi she had just ordered using Wasselni, a taxi-ordering and carpooling app she launched in Gaza four months ago.