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.
First love can be painful at the best of times. But in this case it turned out to be tragic.
How do the rich get richer? They don't put their money in the bank. And in recent years it hasn’t been through property or shares. The answer for many has been art. Modern art.
60 Minutes investigated the death of 18-year-old Ben Brown who died of meningococcal disease after being turned away from Whangarei Hospital not once, but twice.
For the last 10 years, one of the largest manufacturers of breast implants has been involved in a monstrous fraud - filling its products with cheap industrial gels, resulting products which are potentially toxic.
Seventeen-year-old heartthrob Reece Mastin is living every teenage boy’s dream. Since winning The X Factor Australia late last year, the young singer has become an international sensation, causing hysteria wherever he goes.
Sir Douglas Graham was a pillar of the community – a knight of the realm, former Minister of Justice and widely respected for his handling of treaty negotiations. Now he’s a convicted criminal.
Just imagine. Seven kids and every one of them a boy. You'd give up trying for a girl wouldn't you?
The government is planning to do a deal - it will change the law to allow Sky City to have more pokie machines in exchange for a new convention centre in Auckland.
Last July talkback radio host Derryn Hinch received a liver transplant. His donor was a criminal and a drug-taker, just the kind of bloke he would have railed against on his radio show.
Demolition is the goal of 21-year-old Magnus Carlsen. No, he's not a boxer, not a wrestler. Rather, Magnus is the top chess player in the world, and he tackles his sport like an athlete.
Last year, 22-year-old Stacy Ramadge was kidnapped and murdered by New Zealander Neil Chapman in Melbourne. Three weeks before Chapman moved to Australia, he attacked his former-partner, in a planned murder-suicide.
Mike McRoberts reports from Japan on a country living with nuclear fallout. Mike goes as close as anyone can get to the Fukushima nuclear reactors.
At 13, Jake Barnett has accomplished a lot. He is a university student on a full scholarship, he does paid scientific research on the side and tutors his older classmates.
The process of hydraulic fracturing to release oil and gas has the oil industry very excited, but could fracking in New Zealand affect our drinking water and cause earthquakes?
It wasn't so long ago, that HIV/AIDS was dubbed the “gay disease” – the preserve of homosexual men. But today, worldwide, there are just as many women with HIV - heterosexual women.
Adele is one of the most extraordinary singers of her generation, but last year the rising star developed serious vocal cord problems that required surgery.
New Zealand is helping feed the world’s appetite for shark fin soup. But now there’s a movement to stop the trade. Forget Save the Whales, this is Save the Sharks.
A clinic is offering hope to Alzheimer's sufferers and their families. The doctors there believe the disease can be reversed.
As Taylor Swift prepares to fly to New Zealand for a series of concerts, Lesley Stahl talks to the young megastar about her life, her fans, and her strategy for success.
60 Minutes has the first in-depth interview with David Bain.
A group of intrepid Kiwis travel to the world's most dangerous coastline for a daring rescue mission.
On the eve of the Oscars, Meryl Streep, sits down with 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer for a rare interview.
Scientists are now realising that animals are a whole lot smarter than we ever imagined.
Joe Karam continues his fight to show how the justice system failed David Bain.
A new film details the moments of terror, anxiety and courage following the Christchurch earthquake.
At eight metres long and weighing more than 5000 kilos, the Orca is one of the ocean’s most feared killers.
A young man missing for 10 years. Simon and Cathy Cowan are determined to find out what happened to their son, Phil, who was last seen in 2001.
It looks like a miracle: a man who seems comatose given new life by a well-known little pill.
Hollywood star Brad Pitt reveals that he plans to quit acting when he turns 50.
New Zealand's best known dancer and choreographer, Douglas Wright
60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon meets Angelina Jolie, who is making her directorial debut with a film set during the Bosnian War.
Can anti-depressants cause people to kill themselves, or even kill others?
Robyn Malcolm has played many roles in her life, but none with more conviction than her latest as political activist for the Greens.
A neo-Nazi leader - murdered by his 10-year-old son.
Meet the Bajau Laut – the nomads of the South Pacific. With no land-based home to call their own, these sea gypsies have roamed the treacherous waters north of Australia for centuries; living their entire lives on tiny wooden boats.
It’s a presidential-style campaign – a rock star Prime Minister versus a pretender given virtually no hope.
Most of us have figured out by now that transferring our life savings into a Nigerian bank account is a mug's game. We know there's no royal fortune. No multi-million dollar return. In fact, no hope of ever seeing our money again.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are both famous and infamous for their animated series South Park. Now the duo also has the biggest hit on Broadway, the comedic musical assault on religious dogma called The Book of Mormon.
Meet Open Rescue, a small group of determined young New Zealanders on a quest to put a stop to factory farms.
The weight is off Graham Henry's shoulders, his upside-down smile is the right way up again, and finally he is willing to open up about his years in charge of the All Blacks.
It's one of the strangest conversations 60 Minutes reporter, Tara Brown has ever had.
William Trubridge is New Zealand's most successful sportsman, holding 15 world records in a sport where you could kill yourself every time you take part.
For the first time since Bernie Madoff’s arrest, his wife and son talk about the family shame.
Tauranga’s Elly Maynard is on a crusade to have dog meat removed from the human food chain.
Move over Rupert Murdoch, there's a new Aussie on the broadcast block. His name is Saad Mohseni and he's cornered the television market in, of all places, Afghanistan.
His products changed the way the world thinks about technology. But how should we think about the man behind them, Apple's charismatic founder Steve Jobs?
Mike McRoberts meets the bigshots who control world rugby to find out how the game is about to be transformed.
Don’t worry – Piri has it under control.
On the road with the All Blacks in the lead up to the final.
One moment he was skateboarding in Palmerston North, the next he was playing one of the most important games of rugby in the country’s history.
They are the people we often love to hate, the know-it-all rugby writers from around the world who delight in needling us about the shortcomings of the All Blacks and the state of the game in New Zealand.
Meet Alex Honnold, a 26-year-old rock climber from California. Alex is not just any rock climber - he scales walls higher than the Empire State Building, and does so without any ropes or protection.
For years New Zealanders have been sold the idea that if we move to Australia we will be far better off. Higher wages, better climate, better life. But is that fast becoming a myth?
Millions believe Mt. Athos is the most sacred spot on Earth. The monks there do everything they can to keep what they call "the world" as far away as possible.
New Zealander Fred Hollows gave the gift of sight to millions of people, curing the blind and teaching others how to carry on his work.
One of the richest men on earth has fallen in love with New Zealand and is pouring money our way. In fact according to him, it's a great privilege to be able to give away his money and he calls it the most meaningful thing left in his life.
Ben Brown was just 18 when he died of meningococcal disease. Despite his life being in danger, he didn't get the care he needed. In fact, he was turned away by doctors, twice.
Imagine the shock – 50-years-old and staring down at two blue lines on a pregnancy test. From conception, through pregnancy, to delivery, this baby and his parents have defied all the odds and every rule in the medical books.
People used to be dragged to Siberia in chains. But this gigantic frozen slab of Russia is getting an image makeover and for potential investors, icy Siberia is heating up.
It’s one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters – three-and-a-half million facing starvation in the Horn of Africa. But in amidst the suffering, Hilary Barry found some glimmers of hope.
New Zealander Derryn Hinch was sentenced to five months home detention in Australia for naming sex offenders. Two weeks before that he was on an operating table receiving a life-saving liver transplant. So has any of this tamed the loud and opinionated broadcaster?
As ‘street retailers’ face the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, online stores, or 'e-tailers', are rapidly expanding. So is this the beginning of the end for High Street shops?
Kiwi Mark Taylor has been named as New Zealand’s one and only link to Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism. Political reporter, Patrick Gower tracks him down for an exclusive television interview.
The wild Bunga Bunga sex parties of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are making Italy a laughing stock. While the country faces economic collapse, its long-standing leader appears to have his mind on other things.
Mike Tyson was once hailed as "the baddest man on the planet". So it's hard to imagine the former heavyweight champion of the world morphing into a laid-back, clean-living family man with a passion for pigeons.
It’s one of life’s biggest mysteries – what happens to us when we die? Is there a possibility of life after death? 60 Minutes speaks to people who believe that they have died and come back to life.
According to the latest research, when it comes to binge drinking, young women are just as bad as their male counterparts. So why is it that what was once considered embarrassing and outrageous behaviour is now celebrated as just another girls’ night out?
It's a comic book staple. A geeky, mild-mannered guy suddenly discovers he possesses super powers and begins saving the world from evil. But recently, ordinary people have started taking the law into their own hands, becoming self-proclaimed “super-heroes” and believing they can make the world a better place.
The Wells parents from Wanaka have four sons, all of them brilliant skiers – one world champion and three following fast behind him. So what's their secret and is it possible to breed winners?
Scientists have made a new discovery in the field of memory which they are calling, “superior autobiographical memory". And unless you happen to know one of the handful of people discovered so far who have it, get ready to be amazed.
Charlotte Dawson reckons she was run out of her home country, but that Sydney welcomed her with open arms. So why do Aussies love what us Kiwi’s chose to hate? 60 minutes went to Sydney to find the answer.
You’d think Sarah Ferguson would have learned how to handle the media by now, but a recent interview with 60 Minutes shows the former Princess is as unpredictable as ever.
We've all seen the images coming out of Britain this week - streets ablaze as frenzied mobs let loose a barrage of violence. But what motivated the rioters to rise up and wreak such havoc?
Hannah Tamaki, wife of Destiny Church founder Brian Tamaki, wants to become president of the Maori Women's Welfare League, but they’re fighting tooth-and-nail to keep her out.
Chloe McCardel waded into the chill waters of southern England, determined to become one of the very few people ever to make a triple crossing of the English Channel. She’d swum the distance many times, but she had no idea just how hard this would be.
Hollywood blockbuster The Hangover 2 has been hyped as the comedy movie of the year, but there weren’t too many laughs behind the scenes as the cast and crew kept a dreadful secret.
He describes himself as a simple man who got lucky. But luck isn’t the only reason that Rod Stewart has managed to sell $200 million albums and remain at the top of the music game for over four decades.
Every year, thousands of single men venture to Eastern Europe in search of a wife. The bride business is especially booming in the Ukrainian city of Odessa as men from all corners of the globe flock there in search of love.
It’s the biggest, most important security gig in town - the Rugby World Cup. But as the eyes of the world focus on Eden Park, the company given the job is facing scrutiny itself.
Imagine leaping over the edge of one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes on earth. One slip and you’re history – vaporised by the boiling lava.
When it comes to gambling, there are some high rollers who consistently win, and it's hard to find anyone better at the game than Billy Walters.
He is the only Kiwi on the FBI’s most wanted list yet it was 60 Minutes who tracked him down in the Middle East last year. Now he is back in New Zealand defrauding a whole new group of gullible victims.
Kiwi Glen Johnson travelled in a small boat from Africa to Yemen with people smugglers. When he got there he was abandoned in the desert, then thrown in prison with no rights, no charges and no access to lawyers.
On Christmas Eve 2009, the Civil Aviation Authority grounded the Heli Ag Company’s fleet of helicopters, stopping the booming crop spraying company dead in its tracks. The alleged crime, tampering with the clock that records the hours flown.
There are few places on Earth as spectacular and isolated as the Amazon. But this world is currently under threat from the Brazilian government’s plans for hydro-electric dams which would flood vast areas of rainforest and wipe out local villages.
The next car you buy could save your life. The fact is, the older your car, the less safe it is likely to be.
There really is magic in the story of Harry Potter. It's been almost 15 years now since J.K. Rowling published that first Potter novel and the world's been bewitched ever since.
In New Zealand we're getting used to seeing them - twisters, or tornados. For whatever reason, it looks like they are becoming a common occurrence.
The Crusaders are this year’s Super heroes. They played the entire season of the Super 15 away from their home ground in Christchurch. It’s a sporting achievement that rivals any other in the history of the game. And still they found time to roll up their sleeves and help fix up their shaky city.
Meet Matt Bowden, the man behind Kronic, the synthetic cannabis now on sale in New Zealand dairies. How does he do it and how much money does he make?
He had a good life, a beautiful wife, a two-year-old son and a new-born daughter and he had just been made a detective. Then one day Damian went to work and never came home.
He's a 22-year-old rugby star and his dream is to represent his country at this year's Rugby World Cup.
Right now, a serial killer is stalking his next victim in New York City. Watching, waiting, ready to strike.
The issue of vaccinating children has been hotly contested in the last few years, but should you or shouldn’t you vaccinate your children?
Could Auckland’s planned inner-city railway really be stopped because of a Taniwha lurking under Queen Street? Who believes in these mystical creatures anyway? And what are they?
For the first time in eighty-odd years, grey wolves are once again roaming the wilds of North America, but not everyone’s celebrating.
The Fukushima nuclear plant is still leaking radiation almost three months after the devastating earthquake and there are fears it will take centuries for Japan to recover from the fallout.
Normally you would not want to be anywhere near a polar bear in the wild but now, thanks to amazing new spy technology, you can feel like you are a mere whisker away.
They incite discrimination and promote hate, but the US Supreme Court protects their vile pickets and placards, all in the name of freedom of speech.
He was an unassuming Kiwi accountant who ended up going undercover for America’s drug enforcement agency.
They're ugly, unwelcome and unstoppable. Over the years, the Cane Toad has been infiltrating Australia in droves, but at what cost?
Infidelity is nothing new, but is the face of adultery changing? These days more women are having affairs, and they’re using modern technology to make it happen.
Faced with a positive test in pregnancy for Down Syndrome, what would you do?
60 Minutes Exclusive: Television's bad boy, Paul Henry, in his first in-depth interview since those comments...
In our rugby-mad country, cricket players are often overshadowed by their rugby counterparts. But Black Cap Brendon McCullum has found rock star fame in India as part of cricket’s richest tournament, the Indian Premier League.
Extraordinary evidence that cycling champion Lance Armstrong took an array of performance-enhancing substances.
The dangerous fantasist who tricked teenage boys into falling in love. Her victims explain how they were fooled and the woman herself describes how she did it.
How Moko the dolphin became an international hero and whether his human friends loved him to death.
You don't get much richer than Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. So why has he turned on his friend and co-founder Bill Gates - mercilessly slagging him off in public?
The intrepid Norwegian who went deep into enemy territory – living with Taleban fighters in Afghanistan and putting his life on the line.
An exclusive interview with the US President Barack Obama about the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
What makes Asian children so academically successful? Is it because their parents push them so hard? And if so, should other parents do the same?
Imagine waking up one morning and you've forgotten everything about yourself. It could happen to you, the culprit is a virus that most of us have lurking in our bodies.
The story of an amazing transplant - plumber Peter Walsh is given a new hand.
60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan speaks out on her horrendous sexual assault in Cairo.
Seven mysterious deaths in one town in Thailand. Tourists succumbing to…. who knows what? Is it all a co-incidence, or something more sinister? We do our own investigation.
We investigate whether the SAS in Afghanistan have handed over prisoners to authorities known for torture.
Robert Geeves must be a very unlucky man - he's lost two girlfriends, ten years apart.
It’s carnival time in Brazil, where the economy is going gangbusters.
Millionaire horse breeder Greg Meads, shot his wife Helen in the throat.
The real story of what happened underground, when 33 Chilean miners were trapped.
At the end of this month, an estimated three billion people will tune in to see the commoner Kate Middleton exchange vows with Prince William
Cast your mind back to how it all began with those devastating floods in Queensland.
Anna MacDonald is the wife of Ewen MacDonald, the man accused of murdering her brother, Feilding farmer, Scott Guy.
Just how many celebrities are still making money decades after their demise?
Justin Bieber seems to have it all.
He shot dead six people and wounded many others
This man claims to be the smartest person in New Zealand.
Mikayla Edwards, just 13 years old, was beaten senseless by four schoolmates - hit with fists, feet and a toilet door.
60 Minutes is in Tripoli to talk to President Gaddafi’s son Saif, can the ruling dynasty can survive the conflict that now grips the country?
Lesbian couple Mel Keevers and Rosie Nolan have just welcomed quintuplet babies into the world.
Take a look at Big Vinnie and decide for yourself: a kingpin of our criminal underbelly, or an innocent man wrongly jailed?
Nicole Kidman has been to hell and back after a high-profile divorce to one of Hollywood’s biggest actors...
It's a face only a mother could love. Fifteen years after the Port Arthur massacre, that photo of Martin Bryant still chills the soul.
Right now, she's the hottest pop star in the world - and the most outrageous.
Why one building is destroyed in the Christchurch quake and another, just metres away, survives intact.
It was a double disaster for Japan when
Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake was followed by a 10 metre high tsunami.
It’s been two weeks since that fateful Tuesday afternoon when a 6.3 magnitude aftershock devastated Christchurch, destroying lives and forcing residents to leave their homes for steadier ground.
It won four Oscars and received twelve nominations at the 2011 Academy Awards.
Not long ago, most of us had never heard of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
Join Mike Live from Christchurch as individual stories of hope, tragedy and survival unfold.
Just how safe was the Pike River Coal mine? A special 60 Minutes investigation into last month’s tragedy delves into what was happening underground.
Lesley Stahl gets the first look at the rehearsal and production of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark".
The first living soldier to receive America’s Medal of Honor...
Mark Zuckerberg, the 26 year old CEO of social networking site Facebook...
Jordan Herewini was just 16 when he was run down during a tit-for-tat battle between rival gangs
She was the Punk Princess of the 1970s; adored by men and women alike.
There's a theory among women that you can't have the "Big Three" all at the one time.
For nearly three decades, the name "Gotti" has been synonymous with organised crime.
Bob Simon profiles boxing sensation Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, who has won world championships in seven different weight divisions and is going for an eight title soon. But will his new job as a Philippine politician hurt his career?
Jane Goodall invites our 60 Minutes cameras back to the forests of Tanzania, where she began her love affair with chimpanzees 50 years ago, to remind the public that chimps are endangered.
