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100 Kiwis Stories: Kiwi troupe who made the grim times bearable

64: War-weary soldiers forgot their troubles when they saw the New Zealand Pierrots take to the stage.

100 Kiwis Stories: Writer's sorrow at war loss

63: Inscribed on one of the bells in the National War Memorial is a tribute to Leslie Heron Beauchamp.

100 Kiwis Stories: Tough man of the Somme dies in Africa

62: William Clachan was made of tough stuff. The Wellington schoolteacher was wounded three times on the Western Front.

Ukrainian pleads for weapons

A 46-year-old Ukrainian tank commander says politicians might yet stop the conflict that grips the east of his country, but supplies of arms from the West would bring a quicker result.

100 Kiwi Stories: Kiwi part of 'hush-hush brigade'

61: Today we might call them special forces. When Robert Kenneth Nicol joined a top secret British Army unit in 1918, it was known as the "hush-hush brigade".

Lost Hitchcock documentary released

A lost documentary Alfred Hitchcock made about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has finally reached screens thanks to movie mogul Brett Ratner.

100 Kiwi Stories: Britain executed Kiwi suffering from shellshock

60: At the outbreak of World War I, Victor Spencer joined queues of young volunteers eager to fight for king and country.

Staff paid heavy price

Few major institutions in Auckland's history devoted 82 per cent of their staff to a war.

Girls choose death over rape

Captured Yazidi girls in Iraq are killing themselves to escape rape and torture at the hands of Isis (Islamic State) militants holding them prisoner.

John Roughan: Humanity amid war - a Christmas story

One Christmas story above all deserves a run this year: the sound of Silent Night from the trenches in the first Christmas of the Great War.

Cuba facing a new revolution

A veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion, he fought alongside Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, and has a treasure trove of anecdotes...

Last Nazi death camp guard to face trial

A 93-year-old German man Oskar Groening, who claims he was an accountant at Auschwitz, to go on trial for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 prisoners.

Girl trying to join Isis hauled off plane

A 15-year-old was prevented from joining Isis by British police who hauled her off a plane at Heathrow just as it was due to take off.

100 Kiwi Stories: Journals recount voyage to war

55: For five anxious years the troopships set sail from New Zealand, carrying her men in uniform away to war.

100 Kiwi Stories: The Kiwi king of No Man's Land

54: Nothing seemed to frighten Dick Travis. His turf was No Man's Land, the zone of death between enemy trenches and his regiment's frontlines.

Naval vets honoured

Four surviving veterans of one of New Zealand's most famous naval battles joined nearly 600 sailors and thousands of well-wishers in a parade on Auckland's Queen St yesterday to mark the Battle of the River Plate's 75th anniversary.