Faced with a positive test in pregnancy for Down Syndrome, what would you do? Last year, New Zealand introduced a new blood test as part of an improved screening programme for Down Syndrome. But a group of parents provocatively calls it eugenics; the practice of selective breeding of the human race. Because worldwide data shows the better the testing programme, the more Down Syndrome pregnancies are terminated. 60 Minutes reporter Paula Penfold meets those who live with Down Syndrome to see what kind of lives they do lead, and asks the question at the heart of the issue: should they, or shouldn't they have been born? Read Eugene's blog entry about this story. Watch this story now.
When news broke of substandard French-made breast implants rupturing at an alarming rate, women in New Zealand were reassured they very likely had nothing to worry about.
“New Zealanders eat cats.” That's what they are saying in the seaside village of La Flotte in Western France.
Turia Pitt was a successful long-distance runner competing in an ultra-marathon race through the Kimberley in Australia when she got engulfed in flames from a bushfire.
Hayden Te Wao is so big he has been deemed a threat to national security in Australia and been deported back to New Zealand.
Is sugar poisonous? New research coming out of some of America's most respected institutions is starting to find that sugar is a toxin and could be a driving force behind some of the Western world’s leading killers, including heart disease.
Brynne, Savannah and Tess are exorcists – all-American school girls who slay demons in their spare time.
What is Pete Bethune up to now? Believe it or not, his latest project is his most dangerous, some would say foolhardy, yet.
After 40 tumultuous years together, Aerosmith is one of the last great American rock bands standing.
From the start, he was branded the Honeymoon Killer. The Australian police were convinced Gabe Watson murdered his wife Tina while diving on the Great Barrier Reef, and the media and public agreed.
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