Blood diamonds are more than rare gemstones. Mined in conflict zones and sold through hidden networks, they have funded wars, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until he got to Africa, Leonardo DiCaprio admits, his exposure to the conflicts surrounding diamond mining was limited. “I was like anybody else, I’d heard whispers, but it wasn’t until I got to ...

Later this month, Israel Adesanya returns to the Octagon to try and record his first victory since he won back the ...

Blood diamonds are stones mined in war zones and sold to fund violence and armed groups. They became widely known during ...

Having already roiled the diamond industry, "Blood Diamond" arrives with the best of intentions, harrowing sequences but ultimately mixed results. Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou deliver powerful ...

“T.I.A.,” mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton’s blow job, the West African nation is mired in a savage civil ...