Owners and management of Te Aute College have taken the rare step of seeking a Commissioner to help save the historic Hawke's Bay school from extinction after 156 years as a stalwart of Maori education in New Zealand.

The potential refurbishment of the St James Theatre has received a boost from Auckland Mayor Len Brown.

Just how Kiwi is the barbecue? Dionne Christian looks into the history of cooking outdoors in New Zealand.

History left us with the Roaring Twenties, the Swinging Sixties, the Excessive Eighties and that widely despised term: the Naughty Noughties.

Jill Worrall discovers a haven for royalty and an ingenious irrigation system in the desert city of Yazd.

Austria announced plans to exhume graves containing the remains of 220 suspected victims of Nazi Germany's infamous euthanasia programme yesterday.

Experimental possum farming?

Tell people you're visiting an Armenian church in Iran and chances are you'll get some doubtful looks.

War medal collectors are combing death notices to harass families of late veterans for their medals.

Research showing Maori may have reached New Zealand later than previously believed may have implications for the Waitangi Tribunal, a New Zealand historian says.

An ad campaign that describes how brewing magnate Morton Coutts was inspired to create DB Export has been dismissed as a "figment of an ad man's hangover" by writers and historians.

Winter in Belgium's Ardennes will forever be linked with Nazi Germany's last great offensive of World War II.

There were heated scenes at an Auckland Council meeting this morning as protesters tried to stop a heritage demolition.

The embalmed head of one of the most infamous kings of France has been identified by scientists 400 years after his assassination.

Photos of the protests and demolition of the art deco houses in St Heliers.