 | 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.
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 | “New Zealanders eat cats.” That's what they are saying in the seaside village of La Flotte in Western France.
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 | What is Pete Bethune up to now? Believe it or not, his latest project is his most dangerous, some would say foolhardy, yet.
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 | First love can be painful at the best of times. But in this case it turned out to be tragic. Hayley Ann Fenton was an apparently happy 15-year-old girl, until she began a relationship with Pelesasa Tiumalu, a married 27-year-old father.
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 | 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. The Northland District Health Board has launched their own investigation - What did the external review reveal about the way the hospital handled Ben's care?
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | Web Exclusive: Full Interview. 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.
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 | Web Exclusive: Full Interview. 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | Last year, 22-year-old Stacy Ramadge was kidnapped and murdered by New Zealander Neil Chapman in Melbourne.
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 | It has the oil industry very excited, but could fracking in New Zealand affect our drinking water and cause earthquakes?
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 | New Zealand is helping feed the world’s appetite for shark fin soup.
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 | Bain was convicted of the murders of his parents, two sisters and brother in 1995. He served 12 years of a minimum 16 year jail sentence...
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 | A group of intrepid Kiwis travel to Somalia, the world's most dangerous coastline, for a daring rescue mission.
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 | Reporter Jeff Hampton and Camera Operator/Editor Bob Grieve's footage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch, much of it never seen before, showing the moments of terror, anxiety and courage as they unfolded.
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 | David Bain and his supporters have felt it has been their burden to prove innocence. Despite winning at the Privy Council and at a retrial, Joe Karam still battling. Joe Karam is determined to show how, in his view, the justice system failed David Bain. And how the police "ambushed" Bain in court.
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 | 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.
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 | New Zealand's best known dancer and choreographer, Douglas Wright.
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 | Can anti-depressants cause people to kill themselves, or even kill others?
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 | Robyn Malcolm has played many roles in her life, but none with more conviction than her latest as political activist for the Greens.
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 | It’s a presidential-style campaign – a rock star Prime Minister versus a pretender given virtually no hope.
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 | 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.
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 | Meet Open Rescue, a small group of determined young New Zealanders on a quest to put a stop to factory farms.
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 | 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.
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 | A Tauranga woman's crusade to stop people eating dogs. Paula Penfold follows her to the Philippines to witness dangerous raids on the people who buy, sell and slaughter dogs for the restaurant table.
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 | Don’t worry – Piri has it under control.
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 | Against France in the final, most of New Zealand will be watching and hoping that Aaron Cruden can fill the yawning gap left by Dan Carter.
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 | Mike McRoberts meets the bigshots who control world rugby to find out how the game is about to be transformed.
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 | On the road with the All Blacks in the lead up to the final.
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 | 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?
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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. Now, his son Cam is following in his father’s footsteps.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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?
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | 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.
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 | The next car you buy could save your life. The fact is, the older your car, the less safe it is likely to be. The newer the car, and the more your prepared to spend on it, the safer it is likely to be.
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 | 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.
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 | 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?
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 | He's a 22-year-old rugby star and his dream is to represent his country at this year's Rugby World Cup.
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 | 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?
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 | He was an unassuming Kiwi accountant who ended up going undercover for America’s drug enforcement agency.
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 | Faced with a positive test in pregnancy for Down Syndrome, what would you do?
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 | The word almost everyone uses about broadcaster Paul Henry is "polarising". Some people think the worst of him, others the best. So where does he stand himself?
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 | 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.
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 | Meet 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. Reporter Paula Penfold met Facebook stalker Natalia Burgess for an intriguing insight into a complex world of deceit. Burgess explains the personalities she created, the voices she put on and the tricks she used. Her victims tell a sadder story – a story of broken hearts and, in some cases, broken lives.
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 | Moko the dolphin hit headlines all over the country with his playful antics. But after he guided two stranded pygmy sperm whales to sea, he captured the imagination of people all over the world, among them film-maker Amy Taylor. Her documentary looks at Moko's remarkable life, his sexual shenanigans and his untimely end.
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 | What makes Asian kids so astonishingly brainy? Is it because their parents push them so hard? And if so, should we do the same?
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 | When Sarah Carter headed off to Thailand, she thought it would be the holiday of a lifetime.
But this fit young woman, starting out on her OE, was never to return. One of seven tourists now, to have died in similar circumstances in the town of Chiang Mai. How did it happen? Her family and friends, especially the two young women who went with her, are desperate for answers.
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 | Millionaire horse breeder Greg Meads, shot his wife Helen in the throat, four days after she told him she was undergoing counselling and wanted to leave him.
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 | In the only in-depth interview she has given, Anna speaks candidly to 60 Minutes about the moment she heard her husband was arrested and how she had to break the news to their four young children.
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 | He claims to be the smartest person in New Zealand. He says his IQ is through the roof.
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 | Mikayla Edwards, just 13 years old, was beaten senseless by four schoolmates - hit with fists, feet and a toilet door. Today she is under 24-hour care at home and she doesn't know when, or whether, she will ever go back to the classroom.
Mikayla is just one of a number of victims of girl-on-girl bullying in New Zealand.
She and her mother talk to 60 Minutes reporter Karen McCarthy.
Watch the video.
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 | Take a look at Big Vinnie and decide for yourself: a kingpin of our criminal underbelly, or an innocent man wrongly jailed?
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 | It was a double disaster for Japan when Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake was followed by a 10 metre high tsunami.
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 | Why was one building is destroyed in the Christchurch quake but another, just metres away, survive intact?
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 | It has been two weeks since that fateful Tuesday afternoon when a 6.3 magnitude aftershock devastated Christchurch.
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 | While rescuers from around the world search for survivors and pull out bodies from the ruins, relatives wait anxiously, hoping for news of their loved ones
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 | It’s not just the buildings that have been wrecked; this time it is lives too.
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 | Rescuers have been working day and night, searching for survivors and pulling bodies from broken buildings.
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 | In America, if you are openly homosexual you cannot sign up and become a member of the armed forces – you won’t be accepted.
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 | Just how safe was the Pike River Coal mine?
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 | Jordan Herewini was just 16 when he was run down during a tit-for-tat battle between rival gangs.
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 | For nine years baby Natasha was kept on ice, suspended in time, while her brother and sister grew up.
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 | It is the story that has gripped the nation since last Friday – 29 miners trapped at Pike River Mine. Amanda Millar reports from the scene of the rescue mission and gives us the full story on the incident.
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 | Amanda Millar meets New Zealand's Governor General, Sir Anand Satyanand, known to his friends just as "Satch".
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 | The nature of the New Zealand family is changing fast. It is now quite common for children to be brought up by two lesbian women, or two gay men.
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 | 60 Minutes speaks to a NZ policeman who poses as a teenage girl online to trap paedophiles.
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 | He has been billed as “New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee” and the Black Caps could certainly do with someone of his talent right now.
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 | Never afraid to come out swinging, professional blogger Cameron Slater is shaping up for a contest way outside his comfort zone.
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 | Some of New Zealand’s most stunning coastal areas are in line for development. How could this happen? Has it gone too far? Is our paradise being sacrificed for the sake of ‘progress’?
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 | It is the interview everyone wanted; South Canterbury Finance’s Allan Hubbard finally speaks.
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 | A 60 Minutes investigation has unmasked a senior Defence Force official as a CV cheat and liar. In our other story tonight - does Vitamin C really work?
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 | A 60 Minutes investigation has unmasked a senior Defence Force official as a CV cheat and liar.
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 | If you think Celia Lashlie is controversial enough already, wait till you see her latest campaign. She calls it a war.
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 | The All Blacks are heralded as national heroes, but they haven’t won a World Cup for more than 20 years.
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 | Puberty is supposed to happen to teenagers, not babies or toddlers, but sometimes, nature doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to.
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 | The amazing story of a King Country dairy farmer who caught swine flu and very nearly died.
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 | When Kiwi Stan Walker was announced as the winner of Australian Idol last year, he entered a world of glamour and success.
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 | It is New Zealand's biggest whodunnit? Scott Guy was killed at the end of his driveway outside his Feilding home and police still have no clue who did it. The wreckage his murder has left behind has devastated a family.
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 | We are over-fishing our oceans and the most striking evidence for this is that the whales are starving.
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 | Anti-whaling campaigner Pete Bethune speaks about spending five months in a Japanese prison.
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 | Open displays of homosexuality are now quite normal in the school yard.
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 | What does an All Black captain do after hanging up his boots?
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 | Many people believe that a great world catastrophe is going to happen in the year 2012 because of the predictions of the ancient Mayan people.
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 | The breeding of Oodles (Spoodles, Schnoodles, Labradoodles, anything crossed with a Poodle) is big business these days.
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 | These days, if women find themselves alone, needing to attend a dinner or function, some of them simply hire a male companion.
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 | An amazing number of high ranking military officers, government officials and generally sensible folk believe we are being visited by aliens from other planets.
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 | In New Zealand we are too relaxed about our privacy, leaving ourselves wide open to being ripped off.
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 | It's been a year King's College will never forget - three pupils dying within three months of each other.
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 | It was a crash that ground the lower North Island to a halt and cost a 64-year-old woman her life. A giant truck, a "B-train", rolled on top of a small Mazda.
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 | We Kiwis have an appalling record when it comes to looking after our teeth.
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 | If you had a serious illness, cancer for example, would you put your life in the hands of an alternative therapist?
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 | Many of our farmers are weighed down with debt and the banks are losing patience.
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 | Smashing, bashing and crashing - stock car racing is not for the faint hearted. No wonder it’s such an amazingly popular spectator sport in NZ.
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 | Hone Harawira in trouble again. Over the past few days, 60 Minutes reporter Paula Penfold has been alongside the Maori activist turned politician.
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 | Elizabeth Lennox is a mother of six, whose smear tests were mis-read repeatedly. Now she has terminal cancer. How could this possibly happen?
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 | When Craig came out as gay to his Exclusive Brethren family, he was effectively banished from the community.
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 | Andrea Kruger stunned the judge and courtroom when she hugged, kissed and forgave drunk driver Phillip Hamilton, who killed her husband.
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 | There is a fierce debate going on right now, but most of it is happening behind closed doors. New Zealand’s alcohol laws are up for review which means how, where and when we can buy alcohol looks likely to change.
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 | Wayne Leslie Davidson is a New Zealander who's been a wanted man for years.
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 | The story of Wellington woman Margaret Page, whose decision to starve herself to death sparked widespread debate across New Zealand.
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 | The night of teenager Michael Powell’s death he received text messages from a 13-year-old girl about suicide.
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 | For 10 years, Kiwi caddie Steve Williams has been Tiger Woods’ shadow – confidant to the world’s greatest golfer.
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 | As endurance sports go, the Ironman is right up there with the most challenging.
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 | Telecom’s XT network was meant to be an impressive feat of technology, but instead it was plagued with outages and bad publicity.
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 | Herman Rockefeller was a high-flying business man who seemed the picture of respectability.
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 | Rod Vaughan investigates who benefits from mining in New Zealand and what will happen
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 | David Tua is a man on the comeback trail. His knock out win against Shane Cameron saw the Tua man back on form, but was it a one off?
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