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The last 2025 column, reporting on the billionaire Normans and a big building deal.

Have we become more a city of fails than sails, given the city heart's sorry state?

Evidence is drawn from ice cores, ancient tree rings, accounts of famine and grain trade.

Instead of being haunted by the past, a new generation is reclaiming it.

Auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat unearthed the painting in a Paris mansion last year.

The film began with a six-page proposal that left James Vanderbilt ‘floored’.

The museum’s kitchen and laundry now open to visitors after major updates.

Developer Jonathan Quigley promises 28% ecological planting and advanced water treatment.

New York Times: Inside the detective work to try to verify an expensive drawing.

OPINION: A recent Herald column celebrated the virtues of the West. Here's a response.

Pope Leo is due to visit the site in the town of Iznik later this week.

DNA from the gum shows the chewer had brown hair and brown eyes.

Two scallop shells placed over her mouth appear to be a burial mask.

Built in 1855, the future of the Wakefield St building is at risk.

This destination may earn raised eyebrows from family and friends, but it's a true gem.

Videos show flames tearing through the temple's wooden roof and interior.

The kumete whakairo was carved as a peace gift to politician Robert Graham in 1878.

Scientists sequence the oldest-ever RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth.

Conservationists say the historic spot in England risks falling into disrepair.

NY Times: 'The old arguments against return are crumbling,' said Egyptologist Monica Hanna

The 2026 edition will mark the end of a 208-year publishing run.

The ambitious downtown project will transform the heritage Milne & Choyce site.

More than 400 Māori men and boys were imprisoned without trial in 1879–80.

Education Minister Erica Stanford says Treaty duties sit with the Crown.

The country which lines the Adriatic is both beautiful and historic.

For decades palaeontologists debated whether fossils were of young T-rex or nanotyrannus.

New York Times: A study documents how some marine species have turned bombs into shelters.

The museum houses 100,000 artefacts spanning 6000 years of history.

Ginzan’s ryokan is said to have inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.