Australia is considering joining the United States in a limited military operation to rescue as many as 30,000 Iraqi refugees trapped on a barren mountain in the north.

18: In 1871, a German giant mobilised the New Zealand left. That year 600 people, inspired by Karl Marx, formed an unemployed workers union and demonstrated.

The son of a WWII prisoner of war and hero of the Battle of Crete who admitted stealing nearly $90,000 from his dead father's veterans' pension will only have to repay $4500.

The Sydney grandfather of a 7-year-old boy pictured clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier has urged the Australian Government to bring the boy home.

America is to supply weapons directly to Kurdish fighters in Iraq for the first time, to help the lightly armed forces in the north push back jihadist rebels, assisted by US air power.

17: Karl Strack risked his life to advance New Zealand over the Germans again and again; we repaid his bravery by blacklisting him.

The people of the mountain can see their villages, and the headlights of the jihadi patrols snaking through the streets they have abandoned, and know they cannot return.

US air strikes are boosting Kurdish morale as they hit Isis fighters, and a road is now open for thousands of Yazidis cut off in the mountains.

William Burnwas the first New Zealand pilot killed in World War I action.

An Australian jihadist has tweeted a photo of his young son holding up a severed head of a dead Syrian soldier.

Prince Harry has recalled the "horrendous" images he saw during two tours of Afghanistan.

The first All Black to die in World War I was Albert "Doolan" Downing, a rangy forward who sported a Ranfurly Shield tattoo on his left arm.

Up to 150,000 desperate refugees were still isolated on a barren stretch of mountain in Iraq, surrounded by Islamic extremists despite a major international intervention.

The 8-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that.

The spoils of a battle that gave hope to the Allies in their darkest hour will go on sale at a special auction next week.

RSA clubs are moving plaques, paintings and photographs to "freshen up" bars and function rooms, angering vets.

The first full day of peace reveals the massive reconstruction task ahead.

12: Of all the soldiers who served and died in World War I, few could match the gifts of Hugh Montagu Butterworth in their descriptions of the conflict.

On the morning of July 15, Moscow was as hot as an oven.

100 years on from the beginning of the first World War, the Torpedo Bay Naval Museum in Auckland has chosen a theatrical way of commemorating the fallen. Geoff Allen's 'Sister Anzac' tells the herstory of the hospital ship 'Maheno' and the nurses who served aboard.

Google is facing criticism for continuing to allow Android mobile users to download a game called "Bomb Gaza".

An Israeli airstrike killed a militant leader in the Gaza Strip last night, as other flashpoints in the wider Middle East flared up in worrying signs of regional instability.

Memories of his service along the Gaza border two years ago have been streaming through the mind of Shai Davidovich this week.

Over the next four years we will learn much about World War I and the suffering that went with it.

One hundred gun shots echoed over Wellington yesterday morning marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I.

11:They served in horrific conditions, and many of those that survived years of war were rewarded with a bullet.