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Spitfire stories: Kiwi war pilot reflects on battles with bombers, U-boats

The 100-year-old is one of the few left who flew Spitfires during WWII.

Special investigation: Why getting cataract surgery depends on where you live

Vision-saving surgery depends on your address - check how your region compares.

In a nation armed to the teeth, these tiny missteps led to tragedy

New York Times: Small errors can have large consequences in a nation bristling with guns.

Expanding the Witherspoon television universe

New York Times: The A-list actress turned A-list producer has just launched two new shows.

There is plastic in our flesh: Why our way of life is killing us

New York Times: The harm we have done to the planet is being visited on our own bodies.

Morgan Freeman: It’s an insult to be called African-American

Times: In a rare interview, Freeman talks race, method acting and the meaning of life.

The Pentagon leak: How a low-ranked 21-year-old accessed top US secrets

FT: A junior IT worker has sparked a reckoning on America's intelligence handling.

My transplanted heart and I will die soon

NYT Opinion: Amy Silverstein has done everything she can to stay alive. It's not enough.

Steve Braunias meets the biggest-selling artists you’ve never heard of

Eccentric superstar couple created a worldwide movement.

The Kiwi boss of Air India: Will biggest aircraft order mean direct flights to NZ?

Air India aims at being a global powerhouse – and NZ is on the radar.

'I just feel it’s weird': J Smith-Cameron on Succession and being a sex symbol at 65

Times: Succession star talks late fame and her chemistry with co-star Kieran Culkin.

The life and death of a crime writer with her own dark tale

New York Times: Anne Perry, born Juliet Hulme, kept her secret hidden until 1994.

‘It’s a relief to be 60 – my life was a disaster in my 20s and 30s’

Telegraph opinion: Liz Hoggard has good news for the world's late bloomers.

Metallica: We’re head-banging into our sixties — here’s our secret

Times: Four decades on, the heavy metal titans are growing old noisily.

The dark life of rapist cop David Carrick — by those who knew him best

Times: Carrick’s first known rape took place in 2003, a year after he joined the police.

El Salvador decimated its ruthless gangs. But at what cost?

New York Times: Govt delivered stunning blow to gangs that were once ultimate authority.