Smell Like a Million Bucks: DKNY Sells $1M Perfume
How much do you normally smell like? Would you rather smell like a million bucks? Now it's possible. DKNY has unveiled a $1 million bottle of Golden Delicious perfume. It helps that the container is...
View ArticlePriciest Celeb Engagement Ring: $5M
Justin Timberlake reportedly put a ring on it . Natalie Portman flashed a diamond engagement ring—now surrounded by what are reported to be wedding diamonds —at the Oscars. Will these rings go down in...
View ArticleProphecy Drives Firm to Dig for Diamonds in Israel
All it took was a prophecy. That was enough to launch Shefa Yamim, an Israeli mining firm that has spent more than a decade combing the hills and valleys around Haifa for diamonds, something no one...
View ArticleIt's Out There: A Planet Made of Diamond
It's going to need a much better name. A planet known as "55 Cancri e" is making headlines today after astronomers revealed that much of it is made of diamond, reports Space.com . The bad news for...
View ArticleSmuggler Swallowed 220 Diamonds: Police
A diamond smuggler is accused of the impressive, painful-sounding feat of swallowing 220 of the gems in an attempt to get them out of South Africa. The Lebanese man was arrested at the Johannesburg...
View Article$50M in Diamonds Stolen in 11-Minute Airport Heist
Millions of dollars in diamonds have been stolen from a plane at Brussels' international airport yesterday in a daring heist, the AP reports. Police say the jewels were lifted by eight masked men who,...
View ArticleOne of World's Largest Diamond Robberies Unravels
Brazen robbers were able to make off with $50 million worth of diamonds in a daring Brussels airport heist , but they held onto their riches for less than three months. In a cross-border operation,...
View ArticleHow Police Cracked Case of the $50M Diamond Heist
The "what" was big news yesterday— dozens of arrests in connection with one of the world's biggest diamond robberies—and the "how" begins to emerge today: The investigation into February's $50 million...
View ArticleCannes Diamond Heist Netted $136M—in 1 Minute
Wearing a scarf to mask his face, the gunman held up at least three security guards and then fled the luxury Cannes hotel roughly a minute later with $136 million in diamond jewelry, more than twice...
View ArticleReward for Jewel Heist Clues: $1.3M
An insurer with Lloyd's of London needs a little help in the biggest gem heist in French history—and it's willing to pay up for it. The company is offering $1.3 million for dirt on the robbery from...
View ArticleEgg-Sized White Diamond Sells for $30.6M
A white diamond the size of a small egg sold for $30.6 million at a Hong Kong auction today, as two phone bidders competed for the 118-carat white diamond from Africa in six minutes of measured bidding...
View ArticleJupiter Forecast: Rain, With Chance of Diamonds
It's just a theory, but a pretty dazzling one. Two scientists this week laid out the tantalizing possibility that Jupiter sees raindrops of liquid diamond and Saturn gets diamond hail, reports Nature ....
View ArticleTeen Goes Digging, Finds Jellybean-Sized Diamond
A teenage girl got quite a souvenir on a recent trip to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas: a canary diamond that KWTV says is about the size of a jellybean—ie, "huge." Fourteen-year-old Tana...
View ArticleEngagement Rings Are Actually 'Insulting'
Diamonds have "little intrinsic value," writes Tauriq Moosa in the Guardian , so when large South African diamond mines were discovered in the late 1800s and De Beers Consolidates Mines was formed, its...
View ArticleFinders Keepers: Artist Hides 7 Diamonds in Exhibit
Well, this is one way to get people to come to your exhibition: For the last week of his "Bouncing Cars" installation at New York's Ambassador Gallery, Jamison Ernest hid a diamond a day somewhere in...
View ArticleAntarctica May Hold a Stash of Diamonds
As a scramble for the Arctic's resources looms, scientists have spotted evidence of mineral riches at the planet's southern pole. An Australian-led team discovered rocks signaling large diamond...
View ArticleAncient 'Diamonds' Aren't Exactly Diamonds
Back in 2007, a team of researchers said they'd found 4.3-billion-year-old diamonds inside zircon crystals taken from Australia's Jack Hills. But those researchers had used a grinding paste made of...
View ArticleThe Hope Diamond Gives Up One of Its Secrets
It's legendary, supposedly cursed , admired daily by thousands, and the star of a video game—and yet we don't know all there is to know about the Hope Diamond, or so a recent discovery indicates. The...
View ArticleTeen Gets $20K for Huge Diamond She Found
An Oklahoma City girl has sold a 3.85-carat diamond she found at an Arkansas park for $20,000. Tana Clymer told television station KWTV that she plans to use the money from the recent sale of the...
View ArticleAfter 350-Mile Pursuit, a Rest Stop Jewelry Heist
Four thieves police are describing as "very patient" pounced on a small window of opportunity yesterday morning and walked away with at least a half-million dollars. Officials near Rochester, Minn.,...
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