Marie Antoinette's pearls fail to sell
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A set of pearls purportedly belonging to Marie Antoinette failed to sell Wednesday, a disappointing outcome for the centerpiece of a "Magnificent Jewels" sale at Christie's auction house.
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One of the most-discussed events in the history of the Head of the Charles seemed an impossibility.
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"Conflict diamonds" sold illegally   to finance civil wars, may be making their way into the United   States, despite an international pact to end trade in the   gemstones, the Government Accountability Office said on   Wednesday.
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DIAMONDS worth nearly Â£8m were stolen from an antique dealers&#39; show near the Louvre museum in Paris yesterday. The two diamonds were taken in a daylight robbery while a member of staff manning a stand at
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Orson Welles' Oscar for Citizen Kane, expected to fetch $1.2m at a New York auction, fails to sell.
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Some of the finest Russian wines ever sold fail raise less than half their estimated cost at auction house Sotheby's.
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Sofia Coppola has brought Marie  Antoinette to the big screen, using rock music in a sumptuous  portrayal of a misunderstood young queen, but some viewers at  the Cannes film festival were less than impressed.
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Marias Golden Rose puts away five other fillies to win the $75,000 Pearl Necklace for 3-year-old Maryland-bred fillies in Timonium.
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A damaged first edition of the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, fails to sell at auction.
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THIEVES stole two diamonds worth 11.5 million (Â£7.8 million) from a display case at an antiques and jewellery show near the Louvre Museum in Paris yesterday.
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A French court rejects a defamation case against Brigitte Bardot. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Two diamonds worth nearly A$20 million have been stolen in a daylight robbery from a high-end antique and jewelry dealers&#39; show at a showroom below the famous Paris Louvre museum.
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TORONTO - Police have found a rare pendant that belonged to a 19th century Austrian queen and was stolen from a castle there in 1998.
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Queens can have it rough. Consider Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, and Marie Antoinette -- removed by slices.
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Shipwreck being broken up after efforts to refloat it failed.
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An obscure Swiss firm with no operations failed to resolve the question baffling Parisian journalists, investors and regulators on Thursday -- is it serious about trying to take control of Disneyland Paris?
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BOSTON - Louise Outing's luck ran out Thursday when a judge denied the 94-year-old woman's request to force the state Lottery Commission to pay her entire $5.6 million winnings up front.  Superior Court Justice Barbara A.