A rare blue diamond handed down through generations of German royalty sold for a record-breaking 16.4 million pounds ($24.3 million) at auction Wednesday in London, Christie's said.
A volunteer ringing the bell at a Salvation Army kettle in south-central Pennsylvania got an unusual donation: a diamond ring. The ring was handed to August Memmi, who volunteered for the Salvation Army in Harrisburg during his lunch hour Tuesday.
More ads, less gems: Top producers crafted emergency plans Monday to make sure that diamonds remain a girl's best friend this Christmas, despite the economic gloom.
The good times have never seemed so good for one Michigan man who found a diamond Saturday in an Arkansas state park. Richard Burke, a retired high school counselor and golf coach from Flint, found a 4.68-carat white diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro.
Disappointed Neil Diamond fans will get a refund after attending a concert at Ohio State University in which the 67-year-old singer's voice sounded raspy.
The largest diamond ever auctioned off in Asia — a sparkling, 101.27 carat gem about the size of a pingpong ball — fetched more than $6.2 million at Christie's in Hong Kong.
Continuing their season-long effort to find mentors more appealing to baby boomers than people who actually watch the show, “American Idol” brought in the legendary Neil Diamond this week to work with the remaining five finalists. But unlike Dolly Parton and Andrew Lloyd Webber before him, Diamond got to watch each contestant sing two of his songs instead of one.
It's been an odd spectacle, to say the least. The seventh season of "American Idol" has, predictably, forced its way to ratings domination, bulldozing anything foolish enough to wander into its path. Resting comfortably atop the ratings heap, it continues to generate controversy — Carly Smithson already had a record deal! David Cook is just copying other bands' arrangements! — and maintain its water-cooler bona fides.
Neil Diamond, who is releasing a new album next month and embarking on a new tour this summer, says both projects mark the best — and hardest work — of his career.
Four people were arrested Thursday and accused of organizing a prostitution ring that charged wealthy clients in Europe and the U.S. thousands of dollars for prostitutes rated by diamonds.
Denis Tyrrell was walking past a hole he'd filled in while searching for gems at Crater of Diamonds State Park, when he saw a sparkle. The 3.48-carat diamond turned out to the biggest that diamond Tyrrell had found in regular digs that he began in March. The stone is also the 1,000th diamond found at the park this year, a mark last reached in 1994, park interpreter Kim Garland said Monday.
Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline."
An 84.37-carat white diamond touted by Sotheby's for its size and beauty sold at auction Wednesday to Guess clothing company founder Georges Marciano for just under $16.2 million.
A Wisconsin man digging at an Arkansas diamond park with his fiancee Tuesday found a 3.92-carat white stone, but the rock will go into his collection because his betrothed already has a ring and a setting.
Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Nicole Ruhter noticed something everyone else had missed — a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamond.
A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the prison housing the man accused of stealing it two years ago.
Tina Burlett thought someone had broken into her house and stolen her custom-made, $5,000 wedding ring, so she called the police, who filed a report. But Burlett's grandmother already had a suspect in mind: the family pooch.
This black diamond, found in Brazil, may actually have come from space (Image: Steve Haggerty)
An Arkansas man has found a 2.37-carat white diamond at the world's only diamond-bearing site where visitors are allowed to search for and keep the gems they find.
Hollywood's take on "conflict diamonds" has brought attention back in a big way to how gems associated with wealth and glamour have too often meant war and suffering in Africa.
A Wisconsin man visiting a state park took home the ultimate souvenir: a 5.47-carat canary diamond.
A Texas couple found a 6.35-carat diamond Saturday at the Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park. The diamond was the eighth largest found at the site since it became a state park in 1972. It also was the largest diamond find in eight years, according to a news release from the park.
A Tennessee woman whose husband predicted she wouldn't have any luck gem hunting at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park made a sparkling discovery: a 1.30-carat diamond.
More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series "Saved by the Bell," is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.
ANTWERP, Belgium — Teetering on their bicycles or strolling amiably while chattering into cellphones in Yiddish, Dutch, French, Hebrew or English, the Orthodox Jews of this Belgian port city have set the tone of its lively diamond market for more than a century.
The so-called nanodiamonds are made under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts, similar to an explosion over Tunguska in Siberia that flattened trees for miles in 1908.
--Podcast Link to the show within article.-- Excerpt: Brutus Beefcake joins the show and immediately tells us the whole cease and desist from the WWE was settled yesterday and he's free to use the name (as well as the booty man,zodiac, and the butcher)
Nov. 20, 2008 -- Long before New York City was the Big Apple, or even New Amsterdam, a giant tsunami crashed ashore.
It's been called the most expensive piece of art ever made, and now a diamond-encrusted skull by artist Damien Hirst goes on display in Amsterdam.
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Sommer and his collaborators previously showed that hydrogenated diamond is very hydrophobic, or "water fearing" — meaning it pushes water away.
A huge gem stone which could become the largest polished round diamond in history has been discovered. The massive stone is the 20th largest rough diamond ever found, weighs 478 carats and is said to be of outstanding clarity.
Miners in Lesotho have discovered a huge gem stone which may become the largest ever polished diamond. The stone weighs 478 carats and is the 20th largest rough diamond ever found, said Gem Diamonds.
Beyonce has worn her wedding ring in public for the first time ever. The $5 million, 18 carat flawless diamond by Lorraine Schwartz was photographed on the singer during the red carpet madness for Fashion Rocks at New York's Radio City Music Hall....
One of the greatest mysteries in science is how life began. Now one group of researchers says diamonds may have been life's best friend.
Materials scientists have been singing graphene's praises since it was first isolated in 2005. The one-atom-thick sheets of carbon conduct electrons better than silicon and have been made into fast, low-power transistors.
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After having a brief opportunity to play with a friend's Samsung Instinct, I must say I was impressed. In fact, I like that it was slimmer than my iPhone.
If you were looking for a new way to make semiconducting diamond, you might not have thought of starting with tequila. Diamond film is tougher than silicon, so it could be useful for devices that must operate at high temperatures or under other harsh conditions.
The largest diamond in the known universe has a new owner, or more correctly, its first owner.
once belonged to her late mother, Christina -- Sold for $7.1 million. The diamond sold for roughly twice as much as expected.
The Touch Diamond is a lot more than just looks, though. The quad-band smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and has integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, and HSDPA support.
Paul Campanale, his wife and two children were visiting Disney's Wilderness Lodge when he dumped a cardboard bowl into the garbage. Campanale was not aware that the container held his wife Karen's engagement, wedding and anniversary rings.
EVEN a 14-carat pink diamond ring can start looking tarnished if it is immersed in muck.
The Asteroid Eros was closely examined in 1999 by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft. Few Asteroids have been closely examined, and it is believed that Eros may not be unusual in the minerals it contains. There are 1000s of asteroids circling earth.
Columbia Records will release Home Before Dark, the latest release from legendary artist Neil Diamond, on May 6, 2008. Produced by super-producer Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, The Dixie Chicks), Home Before Dark's first single is the hauntingly beautiful "Pretty Amazing Grace".
They hope the ring, which was carved from a slither of diamond, will help researchers build powerful computers that use the properties of quantum physics.
Once a hotbed of gold mining, Canada's far north is now unearthing riches from a different precious commodity: diamonds.