Why would anyone believe Seymour Hersh?

Are some of the 'patriotic' gunmen seizing police stations and buildings in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine actually Russian troops?

To some, they are heroes ready to trade their personal liberty for the sake of high principle. To others, they are spoiled rich children, shirking their national duty on the backs of the less fortunate.

A North Korean official has been executed with a flame-thrower, South Korean media has reported.

Gallipoli means more to New Zealanders than words can convey. But when the names of Mary and Doug Hill were drawn from the ballot this week for places at the 100th Anzac Day, the moment was especially poignant.

The Prime Minister is probably not correct to say few New Zealanders know what happened at Orakau.

Poland has asked Nato to station 10,000 troops on its territory as a visible demonstration of the alliance's resolve to defend all its members after Russia's seizure of Crimea.

Vladimir Putin will not stop trying to expand Russia until he has “conquered” Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland, one of his closest former advisers has said.

With two grandfathers gassed in the trenches of the Great War, and a father who battled Nazis at El Alamein, Rick Ottaway never consciously made a career choice.

The role of five New Zealanders involved in the famous Great Escape from a Nazi prison camp during World War II will be recognised in a commemoration in Poland today.

He is either the unluckiest man in the British Army, or the luckiest. Warrant Officer 1 Patrick Hyde has been blown up 17 times by insurgents.

Imagine you have a young child whose legs were amputated because the hospital didn't have the proper equipment to treat them.

Behind a closed curtain a Syrian man in his mid-30s is preparing himself and his 3-year-old daughter for an onslaught.

Crimea has voted to embrace Kremlin rule, escalating an already grave international crisis to an incendiary level.

Syrian Government troops have seized the last rebel stronghold on the border with Lebanon.

A disturbing video put out by Save The Children has shown what Syria's civil war and refugee crisis would look like if it was set in the West.

Four World War II mines have been discovered on the seabed during a Navy exercise in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf this week.

A former fighter pilot whose bold march against the Russian soldiers occupying his airbase was one of the most stunning acts of resistance in this phoney war.

Unable to intervene militarily and with no direct economic levers to pull, the West believes it is successfully pressing Russia in the Ukraine crisis.

An Auckland woman born in Ukraine says residents in her home country are ready to take up arms against Russian occupiers.

Parliament unanimously backed a motion from Foreign Minister Murray McCully expressing "deep concern" about the situation in the Ukraine.

Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand athletes should complete in the Sochi Winter Paralympics despite Russia's intervention in Ukraine.

Up to 16,000 Russian troops have tightened their stranglehold on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, openly defying the US and the European Union.

Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has appealed for the US and Britain to adopt the "strongest means" against Russia.

If things continue to deteriorate, NZ's chief envoy in Moscow could be recalled. Ultimately, the Russian ambassador could be expelled, writes John Armstrong.

They stood together with their arms linked: a priest, a former soldier, two housewives and a teacher.

President Viktor Yanukovych has defiantly refused a chorus of calls from global leaders and opposition parties.