Daily Diamond - Rare pink star diamond fetches record amount at auction

A huge flawless pink diamond known as the “Pink Star” has sold for a record price at Sotheby’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels auction: an astonishing 76.3 million Swiss francs, £52 million.
Mounted on a ring, the oval-shaped diamond measures 1.06 inches by 0.81 inches (2.69cm by 2.06cm). The......
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Daily Diamond - China to relax one-child policy

China boasts the largest number of people in the world with almost 20% of the population, and since the 1970s have tried to curb this amount with a “family planning policy”, which restricts each family to only one child each. Now, China’s government has said it will be making some long......
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Daily Diamond - First dog to climb Mount Everest is former stray

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, first people in 1953; Junko Tabei, first woman in 1975; Rupee the dog, first canine in 2013. Climbing Mount Everest is still an amazing achievement, and these names were the first of their kind to do it, and no, you didn’t read that wrong. Rupee the dog has......
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Daily Diamond - Hawaii legalize same-sex marriage

In another victory for gay rights, Hawaii has become the fifteenth state to legalise same-sex marriage in the US.
The move was strongly supported by the Governor, and former member of Congress, Neil Abercrombie, who said the law is a basic human right. Supporters are also well aware of the......
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Daily Diamond - Nelson Mandela

The word “hero” is thrown about freely these days, but if there is one person who has truly earned the title it is Nelson Mandela. The remarkable man who carved his way into the history books by saving the world and destroying apartheid has passed away at the age of 95, after a full life of......
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Daily Diamond - Francis Bacon painting sells at auction for record high price

A painting by Dublin-born, English artist Francis Bacon of his good friend Lucian Freud has obliterated the world record for the amount a piece of art has fetched at auction after it sold for nearly $60 million more than it was estimated at.
Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold earlier last month......
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