New Zealand’s cultural life is troubled by the ghosts of empire, figures and events that persist or return to haunt the present. Sometimes it seems these ghosts have been placated and are fading from ...

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s national ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A pistol owned by British explorer Captain James Cook, who first claimed Australia for Britain nearly two and a half centuries ago, will go on the auction block next month in ...