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On November 10, 1871 the Scottish explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who'd disappeared in Africa while searching for the source of the Nile, was found by Henry Stanley, a reporter for the New York Herald. Jane Pauley reports.
Steve Hartman visited Africa to investigate the story of how a suspicious Facebook message actually led to a friendship, and a publishing business that is investing in an impoverished community in Liberia.
Wagner is a group of entities that operate as a private military company.
The Seychelles Islands, nearly a thousand miles off the eastern coast of Africa, are known for being a honeymoon hotspot. Part of the allure is a product of the Coco De Mer tree. Affectionately called "love nuts," these seeds are rare, large (weighing up to 30 pounds), shaped like a derriere, and are said to have aphrodisiacal properties. Conor Knighton visited the Seychelles, where a love of the love nut permeates island culture.
For the last six months "Where the Crawdads Sing" has been a fixture on The New York Times' bestseller list. In this preview of an interview to be broadcast on "Sunday Morning" March 17, novelist and animal behaviorist Delia Owens explains to correspondent Lee Owens how the inspiration for her book came from the savannas of Africa.
Morley Safer reports on the steady collapse of apartheid in South Africa. He asks Prime Minister P. W. Botha, one of the architects of the apartheid system, "Can you envisage a day in which there will be full equality for blacks in this country?"
The carnage was unspeakable: men, women, children, even babies, hacked to death in an age-old feud between two African tribes. Ed Bradley investigates the conflict in Rwanda and speaks with prisoners accused of slaughtering their countrymen.
Lesley Stahl profiles Cynthia Moss, who gave up a cozy life in New York to live in a tent and study elephants in Kenya. After 25 years, Moss is still there, working to save her subjects from extinction at the hands of hunters and poachers, who kill them for their tusks.
Thousands of Ugandan children, some as young as 10, have been abducted and forced to serve in a rebel army led by religious fanatic Joseph Kony. Some of the children, recently rescued, tell Christiane Amanpour about brutal murders they committed under the threat of death.
There's an orphanage in Kenya like no other: a home for baby elephants whose mothers were killed by poachers. As Bob Simon reports, Dame Daphne Sheldrick and her staff act like surrogate parents, caring for the calves until they're strong enough to go back to the wild.
CNN's Anderson Cooper travels to an African jungle and reports on the endangered mountain gorilla species, as they have been subject to slaughter and oppression at the hands of humans.
Ivory is selling for nearly $1,000 a tusk, causing more elephants to be slaughtered and more orphaned babies in need of special care provided by an elephant orphanage in Kenya. Bob Simon reports.
Dereck and Beverly Joubert have been filming Africa's lions for 30 years and their discoveries have challenged conventional wisdom. Lara Logan reports.
Trump's move to bar U.S. entry for nationals from 12 countries has people even in an unlisted nation wondering if "Americans just don't like us anymore."
Controversial conservationist Damian Aspinall wants to close all zoos, including his own, and free the animals to the wild. But is it a good idea? Watch Lesley Stahl's report on Sunday, August 9 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Scott Pelley reports on the Smithsonian and the Slave Wrecks Project's journey to recover the first artifacts known to be preserved from a slave.
Company accused of providing faulty surgical gowns to U.S. hospitals also supplied gear to U.S. Strategic National Stockpile; Halyard Health denies the allegations. Anderson Cooper reports.
Company accused of providing faulty surgical gowns to U.S. hospitals also supplied gear to U.S. Strategic National Stockpile; Halyard Health denies the allegations. Anderson Cooper reports.
60 Minutes producer Michael Karzis on the searing memories of reporting in Zimbabwe in 2000 -- and how Ed Bradley's questions made officials squirm.
Beautiful music created by inmates and their guards offers happiness and hope inside a prison that has been called the "waiting room of hell."
"60 Minutes" travels to an ultra deep mine in South Africa to watch a weekly ritual called "the pour" where rock is smashed, pulverized and melted into precious metal.
Jos Leijdekkers is on Europol's most-wanted list, with the European police body offering over $225,000 for information leading to his arrest.
The victim was camping with other tourists at the tented resort when the early morning tragedy unfolded, police said.
Communities in northern Nigeria have been experiencing prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change and excessive rainfall that leads to severe flooding during the brief wet season.
After decades of war, the transformation in this African park has also impacted the people living nearby. Now the goal is to make it self-sustaining.
The government shutdown stretched into Day 23 on Thursday as the Senate plans a vote on a measure to pay some federal workers. Follow live updates here.
Among those taken into custody in the betting investigation today are Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat.
As Zelenskyy lauds Europe and the U.S. for ramping up economic pressure on Putin over the war in Ukraine, Moscow dismisses them as a counterproductive "act of war."
Three Democrats wrote to President Trump to express concern that decisions about the ballroom addition have been made without public disclosure.
The U.S. has now carried out two strikes against alleged drug vessels on the Pacific side of Latin America.
A Cuban deported by the U.S. to the tiny African nation of Eswatini is on hunger strike and his "life is on the line," his lawyer says.
Officials say Border Patrol's operations in the Northern California area could start as early as later this week, but that the timing could shift.
Zhi Dong Zhang, known as "Brother Wang," is alleged to have worked closely with Mexico's top drug cartels
The FBI is reupping its call for information about the still-unsolved DNC and RNC pipe bomb case, releasing new videos of the suspect.