On our first night in Port Moresby, I couldn't get to sleep.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong says Australia is facing its "most challenging strategic circumstances since World War II" as the battle for influence in the Pacific intensifies.

We watch him rehearse and without a doubt the stage is his comfortable place.

I certainly never expected my first trip back overseas post-pandemic would be to Paris, where I'd be boarding the private jet of rock band KISS, sitting in a luxurious leather seat facing living legends Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley.

As Nick McKenzie reports in a joint 60 MINUTES, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald investigation, Alysha is speaking up because she knows no matter the cost or consequence, there is nothing more important than protecting children.

In a joint major investigation between 60 Minutes, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, award-winning reporter Adele Ferguson reveals horrific evidence about an industry that's becoming more toxic by the day.

When New Zealand's Whakaari/White Island volcano erupted in December 2019, Stephanie Browitt suffered horrific burns and lost her father and sister.

In the early days of cryptocurrency, Alex Waters was sceptical. But after hearing stories of people becoming overnight millionaires, he changed his mind.

Like millions of others, I'd spent years keeping an eye on the growth of crypto without ever actually dipping my toes in the water.

60 Minutes' story on Tahnee Shanks, who with her estranged partner inexplicably disappeared in Mexico, seems to have cleared up one part of the mystery.

German and Portuguese investigators are convinced they know who is responsible for the abduction of three-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007.

While Tahnee Shanks' daughter is now safe in the hands of family after being found alone by a church, police still have no answers as to the whereabouts of her parents.

When a two-year-old girl was found alone and barefoot outside a church in Mexico, there was one question immediately on everyone's minds.

Why are Johnny Depp and Amber Heard prepared to allow their most intimate and embarrassing personal details to be revealed so publicly?

Rebuild or run. It's the impossible decision being faced by NSW town.

The trial in Boston, Massachusetts of young British nanny Louise Woodward, accused of murdering eight-month-old Matthew Eappen, was one of the most divisive court battles of all time.

How often do you check your mobile device? Five, 10, 100 times a day? Chances are it's the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you put down at night? And it's checked innumerable times in between, right? I'm guilty of that too.

The parents of 15-year-old Tilly Rosewarne have bravely spoken out, just 53 days since her death.

What it's like reporting from Ukraine

Within the Republican party, Trump's more powerful than ever; a political kingmaker who anoints candidates and diminishes opponents.

Imagine being imprisoned in Iran for 804 days, sentenced in a kangaroo court on trumped up charges of espionage.

Like all brides, Stella Moris wanted her wedding to be unforgettable. It's likely she will get her wish.

Belmarsh Prison, one of England's harshest maximum security jails, is not where you would usually hope to have your wedding day.

It seems in the Australian mining industry, men sexually harassing or assaulting their female colleagues is not out of the ordinary; it's the norm.

The West Australian mining industry is facing fresh allegations of widespread sexual harassment and abuse.

When Richard Godfrey made the bold claim on 60 Minutes last month that he knew the precise location of missing flight MH370, many were sceptical.

In a secret location in Ukraine, fighters from across the world are preparing to risk their lives for a country they know nothing about.

'Russia has become a symbol of pure concentrated evil'

Not everyone in the west thinks Vladimir Putin is a dangerous megalomaniac.

It's difficult to imagine what the families of the 239 victims have lived through for the past eight years.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended a couple of recent appearances in the public eye, including his now-viral instance of playing the ukulele on 60 Minutes.

The band Dragon has criticised Prime Minister Scott Morrison for using their cult classic song to "humanise" himself ahead of the federal election.

If you have that unnerving feeling the number of shark attacks has been on the rise in Australia lately, then you're right.

Last October, 13 Australian women were forced to undergo invasive and humiliating internal examinations as they transited through the Doha international airport in Qatar.

It was quite the challenging journey into the Wonnangatta Valley – and not ideal for anyone with a faint heart or mild stomach.

60 Minutes goes inside the control room of a secret US nuclear missile site, where the world's most terrifying weapons are launched from.

It's hard to imagine the pit of despair 46-year-old Australian engineer Robert Pether and his family find themselves in.

How could a West Australian couple abandon a baby with Down syndrome to his surrogate mother in Thailand and only bring his healthy twin sister back to Australia?

Luke Donnellan, the Minister for Child Protection and Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers, issued a statement this afternoon, saying he had called Premier Daniel Andrews.

Gabby Petito and her fiancé Brian Laundrie were a young couple who seemed to have it all but we now know the picture-perfect images they posted on social media were hiding an ugly truth.

For former Victoria's Secret model Bridget Malcolm, working in the incredibly competitive industry took a disastrous toll, not just on her career but also her health.

With immediate orders to land, hundreds of flights carrying tens of thousands of passengers were caught over the Atlantic Ocean, left with nowhere to go on September 11, 2001.

According to the law, Kathleen Folbigg is a murderer.

In the always-innovating world of California's Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes was the new kid on the block with revolutionary ideas.

It can be something so many take for granted. Expecting, to be expecting.