Rough Diamonds
Côte d'Ivoire: Diamonds From Country Need Cleaning (click here)
A new initiative for preventing diamonds from financing conflict in the Cote d'Ivoire has been agreed at an international conference in Brussels.

Tokyo: A woman gazes at a 60cm tall dragon sculpture, made of pure gold and platinum and priced at 34.65m yen ($300,000). Gold prices rose for the fifth day in a row in the New York Mercantile Exchange to their highest level in more than 27 years, as investors again turned to the precious metal as an alternative to the plunging US dollar – AFP.