There is something about a centenary - and a well-written book - that can bring an event vividly back to life, writes John Roughan.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Wellington today for the Anzac Street Parade which weaved its way through the city around lunchtime.

A collection of Sir Peter Jackson's original and restored World War I vehicles rolled through Wellington ahead of an Anzac parade tomorrow.

If a New Zealand commander had told his troops at Gallipoli, ‘I am not ordering you to fight, I am ordering you to die’, it’s unlikely that he’d be remembered by towering statues or commemorative coins.

Up to 25 New Zealanders want to travel to the Middle East to fight against Isis, local Iraqi and Kurdish leaders say.

One of slain Iraqi New Zealander Kadhem Chilab Abbas's 24 children fears other family members will be next to die as they try to take revenge.

Two things immediately strike you when standing at Anzac Cove: the tiny beach, and just how daunting and steep the rugged terrain is that lies ahead.

The trial of the 93-year-old "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" began overnight in the German town of Luneburg.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot took part in the dedication for the Australian Memorial at the Pukeahu National War Memorial, saying the Anzac links forged a century ago continue.

Soldiers, veterans, politicians and a small group of protesters have gathered for the dedication of the Australia Memorial at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.

The 93-year-old 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' will go on trial tomorrow charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Auschwitz prisoners.

The Pentagon announced that remains of nearly 400 US servicemen killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour are to be exhumed for identification.

An advance party of about 85 Australian and New Zealand troops left Australia yesterday in a joint training mission now called Task Force Taji.

The Anzacs fought for seven months on the beaches and in the trenches of Gallipoli's Sari Bair range.

The last surviving Dambusters pilot has spoken of an overwhelming sense of responsibility to preserve the memory of the RAF Bomber Command who fought and died in World War II, as he gifted his war medals to an Auckland museum.

Victoria police said the medals were located yesterday by Australia Post, and it appeared they had not been stolen.

While the doomed World War I escapade needlessly cost tens of thousands of lives, Gallipoli helped forge the early identity of the Maori in fledgling NZ.

Thousands of refugees with Armenian roots are returning to start a new life in the shadow of Mount Ararat 100 years after the Armenian 'genocide'.

At least 2000 women have been abducted by Boko Haram, detained in prisons and houses and subjected to forced marriage, stonings and sexual slavery.

James Waddell is one of New Zealand's most decorated military heroes - but few have heard much about him.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make his second official visit to New Zealand next week to take part in the Anzac centenary commemorations.

A week of official events marking the centenary of the Gallipoli landings begins on Saturday with the opening of national war memorial park, the Government announced today.

Herbert A. Knight, a young man who had shown great promise in his hometown of Wanganui, was shot down on May 8, 1915.

Police on both sides of the Tasman are hunting a thief who pinched 12 medals awarded to a Kiwi Anzac who served at Gallipoli.

My great-great-uncle Francis Woodhouse was just 17 when he enlisted to go to war. I bet if he had the luxury of regrets, that would have been his biggest, writes Anna Leask.

A New Zealand soldier's Gallipoli war medals have been stolen from a package sent to Dunedin from Australia.

On April 25, New Zealanders around the world will commemorate the centenary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

One of the biggest deals of the decade has just been concluded. Alexander Gillespie discusses Iran's nuclear concessions.