At least 30 journalists currently are reported missing while covering Syria's civil war. The widespread abduction of journalists is unprecedented.

Dutch museums are trying to trace the owners of a unexpectedly high number of art pieces that were confiscated by the Nazis over 70 years ago.

Former Labour MP Chris Carter says he was lucky to escape possible death after a suicide car bomb exploded metres away from his Afghanistan home.

Claims among dubious Pakistanis that Malala Yusufzai is now Western puppet ignore her ongoing heroism.

The destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile is well under way, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, has won a Nobel Peace Prize.

Former SS captain Erich Priebke participated in one of the worst massacres of German-occupied Italy. Now he's died - and no one wants to bury him.

Ex-soldiers could soon get support for psychological issues as well as physical injuries under wide-ranging changes to war pensions.

A look at how the past days' parallel tracks - pushing for approval of a military attack while pausing to give diplomacy a chance - unfolded.

In an intriguing tour, Pamela Wade gains insight into the horror inflicted on Europe during World War II.

Syria says it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling.

Prime Minister John Key says a UN-backed suggestion to destroy all of Syria's chemical weapons as a way of diverting an increasingly violent situation is an "interesting proposal".

Facing the most perilous passage of his presidency, Barack Obama is to redouble his efforts to persuade the American public to back strikes against Syria.

American air strikes against the Syrian Government would not allow rebels to topple Bashar al-Assad .

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seemed calm and was surrounded by only light security when he talked to a French journalist this week.

The prospect of air strikes in Syria has grown with political developments driving towards military action.

The graves had run into each other, mounds of red earth washed by the rain, blown by the wind.

Thirty former guards at the Auschwitz death camp could face charges of being an accessory to murder.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says the Opposition will be offered a formal briefing on Syria before any parliamentary motion is put by the Government.

'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" - so the British Parliament decided that it didn't want to be shamed over Syrian intervention, writes Gwynne Dwyer.