A rare, vividly rosy-purple diamond, called the Eternal Pink and valued at $35 million, is set to be auctioned off by Sotheby's as part of its Magnificent Jewels sale in New York in June.. The 10.57-carat stone is being marketed as the most valuable purplish-pink diamond ever brought to auction, with the highest ever pre-auction price per carat estimate, according to Sotheby's.
Hundreds of worshippers attended a service Wednesday at a historic Kyiv monastery accused of maintaining links with Moscow as the deadline for the eviction of its monks dawned.. Under a light snowfall, worshippers gathered in and outside the 11th-century golden-domed church to attend morning mass.
As thousands of visitors streamed through a Hong Kong exhibition hall and deals were struck for works by Picasso and Yayoi Kusama, art collectors celebrated the Asian financial hub's return to its bustling heyday.. More than 86,000 visitors poured through the halls of the fair, reflecting a return to pre-pandemic numbers, with reported sales of more than $98 million, double those of 2019, according to organisers.
Omar Buddakey emerges from a nondescript building in Los Angeles with a joint in his hand.. Buddakey's working-class neighborhood in east Los Angeles is teeming with stores like this one, many marked by a green cross.
Dancing around a campfire in bright feather headdresses, a group of Indigenous eco-warriors prepares the painstaking process of planting the Brazilian pine tree, fighting to save the critically endangered species -- and their way of life.. He is helping lead the effort to save the Brazilian pine by planting tens of thousands of seedlings.
Humans using sugar in cockroach traps has inadvertently led to female roaches being turned off by the sugary "gifts" males use to entice them into mating.. The big losers are ordinary male cockroaches, who now secrete a gift too rich in glucose and take too long to start mating for the taste of many females.
Food scientists on Tuesday unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth, saying the protein from the past showed the way for future foods.. "We chose to make a mammoth meatball to draw attention to the fact that the future of food can be better and more sustainable."
A fire that killed at least 39 people at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico is the latest in a series of tragedies involving US-bound migrants.. In addition to this week's fire tragedy, here are some of the worst disasters involving irregular migrants transiting through the Latin American nation in recent years: - In January 2021, the charred bodies of 16 Guatemalan migrants allegedly massacred by cartel hitmen colluding with corrupt police were found in the northern state of Tamaulipas, along with three dead Mexicans.
Robin Wolfenden was practicing yoga on her balcony on a spring morning in Nashville when she heard the sirens -- the sound of first responders rushing to the scene of America's latest school shooting, this time at nearby Covenant School.. Carolyn Lucas's children also attend a school just a 10-minute walk away from the scene of the shooting.
Food scientists unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth on Tuesday, saying the protein from the past showed the way for future foods.. "We chose to make a mammoth meatball to draw attention to the fact that the future of food can be better and more sustainable." jhe/dk/ea
