The Government says it will consider asylum for translators who worked with New Zealand's SAS soldiers in Afghanistan and have been left jobless and in danger.

Last Sunday morning Matt McCarten was on TVNZ as a Q+A panelist.

As New Zealand and Australia yesterday remembered Gallipoli and the Anzac tradition the battle inspired, a new campaign was launched against a ban on expatriate Kiwis serving in the Australian military.

The last Kiwi troops to arrive home from Afghanistan have been given a hero's welcome tonight.

The Government is maintaining there is no specific threat to the safety of New Zealanders in South Korea, despite a new warning issued by the North.

Japan has deployed Patriot missiles in its capital as it readies to defend the 30 million people who live in greater Tokyo from any North Korean attack.

A soldier who died after falling into a Waiouru lake during a training exercise should have been able to release a 20kg gun easily, the former Chief of Army says.

The lead pilot of the air force's fatal Anzac Day formation is being made a scapegoat for failures right up the command chain, says the father of one of the men who died in the 2010 crash.

It'll be the last Christmas New Zealand Defence Force troops spend in Afghanistan. Our final rotation of soldiers will return home by the end of April next year.

The 78 recommendations made after an inquiry into the Anzac Day Iroquois crash are not enough to prevent another tragedy, an independent review says.

An image of police aiming guns at a man in a suburban Auckland street during a dramatic arrest has gone viral after a member of the public caught the action on camera.

A "cloaking device" that makes things invisible, the effect of a depleting ozone layer on the prevailing wind and just how birds tell the time before migrating.

If ever refugees deserved to be welcomed to New Zealand it is the Afghans who have been acting as interpreters for our soldiers in their country.

Veterans returning to battlegrounds in Egypt for a 70th anniversary next week have been promised business-class quality flights and silver service.

An armed military man found dead at Linton Camp had recently separated from his partner and mother of his two children.