BARE-CHESTED MAORI warriors led 42,000 protesters to New Zealand’s parliament on November 19th. Some of the demonstrators, waving red, black and white Maori flags, had marched hundreds of miles ...

On Thursday, thousands of Maori gathered once more, this time to watch warriors paddle the king’s coffin down the Waikato River to the sacred Taupiri mountain, where he would be buried.

In 2002, France handed back the body of Saartjie Baartman, a South African woman who was taken to Europe in the 19th century and exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus".

A French court stepped in on Wednesday to block the return to New Zealand of the mummified head of a Maori warrior held in a provincial museum since the 19th century.