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Spy base 'disarmed for Jesus', court told

Kiwi war hero inspired by fallen commander

An emotional hospital-bed email has revealed how the heroics of a Kiwi soldier who saved the lives of two comrades under heavy Taleban gunfire were inspired by his fallen commander.

Nigerian slaughter shatters fragile balance

Jos has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim-dominated north and predominantly Christian south.

Home base riskiest place for troops

Defence Force troops are less likely to be injured on missions in war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq than they are at home base.

Nazis tried to infiltrate boy scouts

How the Nazis hoodwinked British scoutmaster Lord Baden-Powell into aligning the boy scouts with the Hitler Youth.

<i>Matt McCarten</i>: Mrs Windsor wouldn't miss our outpost colony

The man who knows too much

Book claims heroic reporter made it up

Not easy building trust with those caught in the crossfire

Marines move in to support offensive

Soldiers saving lives in the theatre of war

France exposed troops to radiation

France deliberately exposed 300 of its conscripts to an atomic bomb test in the Sahara in 1961.

Court upholds Nazi land theft

Taleban's military mastermind taken

The Taleban's top military commander has been captured in Pakistan.

Scorsese, de Niro may remake <i>Taxi Driver</i>

Four decades later, rumours say Robert De Niro may reprise his famous role in the film <i>Taxi Driver</i>.

On patrol in the Taleban's heartland

A first-person account of the harrowing experience of combat in Afghanistan's Helmand province.