SYDNEY: Rio Tinto said Friday it was putting up for sale the biggest “red” diamond ever produced by its Australian mine amid an “explosion” in demand from Asia for the rare pink-hued stones. The Argyle Phoenix, a 1.56 carat gem, is one of three red diamonds on offer at the ...

GENEVA - Prestigious jeweller Harry Winston, which was acquired earlier this year by Swatch Group, bought a new colourless, flawless 101.73-carat diamond for a record $26.7 million at an auction in Geneva, auction house Christie’s said.Christie’s representative Raul Kadakia told ...

DOHA - Kenya's world and Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha was one of 11 athletes to register year-best performances as the Diamond League opened in Doha at the start of a world championship season. Rudisha won in 1min 43.87sec with Ethiopia's Mohammed Aman, the only man to have beaten the Kenyan ...

FLORIDA NBC - The idea behind the Tampa Woman’s Club charity event was simple. For $20, you could buy a flute of drink and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond.Organisers of the event placed $10 cubic zirconia stones in the bottom of 399 of the 400 drinks glasses. The prized diamond, ...

NEW YORKAGENCIES A 34.64-carat pink diamond has sold at auction in New York for nearly $40 million, setting a new record for Christie’s auction house. Dubbed the “Princie Diamond,” named after a 14-year-old prince of Baroda, the gem is “one of the largest and finest ...

KANSAS CITY - A homeless Kansas City man’s decision to return a diamond engagement ring that had accidentally fallen into a cup has prompted a flood of donations from people impressed with his honesty. More than $167,000 in contributions has poured in for Billy Ray Harris, who found the ...

ISLAMABAD - Sajid Ali powered Diamond Club to Islamabad Cricket Association Super T-20 Championship 2012 title victory by beating Eleven-Star Club by 7 wickets in the final here at Diamond Club ground on Tuesday. Apart from Sajid Ali’s 43-ball 72-run blistering knock, off-spinner Kamran ...

ISLAMABAD - Sajid Ali and Hamza Abbasi powered Diamond Cricket Club to a nail-biting win over visiting Muslim Gymkhana Lahore in an inter-city promotional cricket match played here at Diamond Ground.Sajid Ali hit up prolific 88 helped Diamond Club to one wicket win in the final over and Moeid ...

LAHORE – Diamond Paints/Dewa and PESSI won the Members Polo Cup 2012 opening matches here at the Lahore Polo Club on Tuesday. Diamond Paints/Dewa outpaced Wi-Tribe Shahsawars by seven goals to four. Saqib Khakwani of Diamond Paints/Dewa scored three goals while Emran Akhtar and Mir Shoaib ...

Swiss firm Hublot has unveiled a new diamond watch - worth a staggering $5m (£3m). The white gold watch is encrusted with 1,282 diamonds, and was made by 17 people. It reportedly took 14 months to be made, according to The AFP.It will be shown to a select group of people at a corporate event ...

Kylie Minogue will perform at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert. The ‘Spinning Around’ singer is the latest act to be confirmed for the June 4 bash in London, along with Motown star Stevie Wonder.She told Digital Spy: ‘’I’m honoured to be invited to perform at ...

SYDNEY  - Mining giant Rio Tinto said Wednesday it has unearthed a “remarkable” 12.76 carat pink diamond in Australia, the largest of the rare and precious stones ever found in the resources-rich nation.Named the Argyle Pink Jubilee, the huge rough stone was found at Rio’s ...

I read news that a precious diamond necklace was stolen from an Indian jewellery stall during an India Show in Lahore. Later the Punjab Police and Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA) recovered the necklace from a professional pickpocket. According to police the suspect was caught from the information ...

LAHORE – No police personnel was on duty at the EXPO Centre when a precious diamond was stolen from an Indian exhibit on Sunday evening, it is learnt on Monday. The City Police wanted to deploy 215 police personnel including seven SHOs, three DSPs and SP Saddar Shoaib Khurram Janbaz on Monday ...

LONDON (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II starts five months of diamond jubilee celebrations this weekend with the promise of pomp and splendour despite the British monarch’s wishes for restraint. The queen will make a deliberately low-key visit to Norfolk in eastern England on Monday, 60 years to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama revealed a secret crush and Caroline Kennedy crooned to her namesake song on Sunday at the Kennedy Centre Honours, which celebrated actress Meryl Streep and singer Neil Diamond. The annual awards program, which also honoured singer Barbara Cook, jazz ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - One of the worlds largest diamonds, a pear-shaped 110.3-carat yellow rock, will go under the hammer in Geneva in November expecting to fetch about $15 million, an auction house said Thursday. The Sun-Drop diamond, discovered in South Africa last year, is billed by Sothebys as the ...

LAHORE Diamond Paints/Allied Bank defeated a spirited Pakistan Air Force in the final of the Hanif Rajput Cup Polo Tournament at the Lahore Polo Club here on Sunday. Going into the match with one-and-a-half goal handicap, PAF were clear underdogs and managed to put favourites Diamond ...

The candidates of PPP, PML(N), PML(Q) and others have filed their nomination papers for presidential bid on Tuesday. Federal Law Minister Farooq Naek has submitted the nomination papers of Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Zardari to Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Farooq. Federal ...

Gliding through the air four thousand feet above the ground, this diamond pattern looks like a giant handkerchief knitted into the skyline. Consisting of 100 jumpers this world record canopy formation was achieved above Lake Wales, Florida last November. Measuring 200 ft by 200 ft the breathtaking ...

THEY fell in love during World War II and have been together ever since. So Thomas and Iris Bashford should have been looking forward to marking 60 years of commitment and devotion with their diamond wedding anniversary. But social services officials have given them the devastating news that ...