Experts claim to have solved one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century: the real cause of the Hindenburg air disaster. And they name static electricity as the culprit.

Researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have discovered the scale of the Holocaust is more extensive than previously known, the New York Times reports.

Sheriden Rhodes has a pilgrimage to Liverpool to find the Beatles – and her dad.

Tamati Patuwai (Ngati Whatua) tells Elisabeth Easther what he loves about living in Glen Innes, and how much the area has changed since he was a boy

A visiting world-renowned French prehistorian has backed calls to protect New Zealand's Maori rock art, describing some of our centuries-old works as powerful.

Adam Smith, the Enlightenment thinker who invented the idea of the free market, was an incisive economic commentator.

English environmentalist Zoe Young has repeated the journey her grandmother made in 1913 to mourn the death of her husband, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole.

They should never have been on the bus. But a mix-up with their booking led to 36 people hopping aboard a dilapidated coach that would become a death-trap.

American author David Roberts is seeking to resurrect the achievements of a much lesser known explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson.

Sir Edmund Hillary's former house in Remuera is due to start a new life in May at the South Auckland school bearing his name.

Alan Perrott discovers once you start rattling around in the branches of your family tree, you never know what might be shaken loose.

More than 200 Kelly descendants, and dozens of public onlookers and regular churchgoers, attended the noon service dedicated to the bushranger at St Patrick's Church in the Victorian town of Wangaratta. The family will bury Kelly's bones in an unmarked gr

Former England captain Tony Greig, who died last week, wasn't just a renowned cricket commentator. He brought the panama hat back into wide view and reinvented the humble car key as a tool to measure pitch conditions.

Sir Edmund Hillary called it "the greatest survival story of all time", and he knew a thing or two about the challenges posed by nature.

New Zealand and the United States conducted thousands of secret tests attempting to create a "tsunami bomb" during World War Two, a New Zealand author has claimed.