They say a diamond is forever. From today, and for now, that also includes blood diamonds. On Monday the respected rights and commerce watchdog Global Witness announced it was quitting the ...

Few topics in the world of precious stones carry the weight — both moral and historical — of blood diamonds. These glittering gems, identical in appearance to their ethically sourced counterparts, ...

What a fuss a number can make -- one little number. And here it is: Fewer than 1 percent of diamonds on the market today are "conflict diamonds." The number seems surprising, considering all the ...

There are a number of bigger names competing at UFC 271 in Houston (Saturday, 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV), but no name is more intriguing than the one which will appear in the opening fight of the night.

In the ambitious, sweeping and sometimes moving Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick aims to fuse recent history with mass-scale entertainment. That's nothing new for Hollywood, and the story of the wages of ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—Between 2000 and 2008, Zimbabwe collapsed. The confiscation of white-owned farms precipitated the destruction of its economy; mad monetary policies led to the worst ...

Many of the conversations surrounding the film Blood Diamond have been fraught. The film centers a particularly violent conflict that many outside of Sierra Leone are unfamiliar with, it posits a ...

"Blood diamonds" became infamous for funding the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone. Beginning 25 years ago, the Kimberley Process aimed to put an end to this illegal trade. Accused of complicity in the ...

As a means to drive home its chief argument – that the 14-carat rock on your fiancée’s ring finger might be little more than a blood-drenched byproduct of an African civil war – the stringent ...