Health & Beauty

GENEVA (AP) — Christie's has auctioned off the famed Archduke Joseph Diamond for $21,474,525 including commission, a world auction record price per carat for a colorless diamond.

The price was well above the expected $15 million and more than triple the price paid for it at auction almost two decades ago. The auction took place in Geneva.

The 76.02-carat diamond, with perfect color and internally flawless clarity, came from the ancient Golconda mines in India. It was named for Archduke Joseph August of Austria, the great grandson of both a Holy Roman emperor and a French...

Having your hair coloured can be one of the best and most uplifting decisions you can make.

Colour in the clothes we wear can change our moods and lift us, make us feel strong and powerful or playful and carefree. This is exactly the same with colour for your hair.

There are countless options for colouring hair including keeping hair natural and adding warmth or tones to the hair by having an all over glossing colour, adding a few highlights to the hair or going for a total image change with a complete colour overhaul.

Changing the tone of...

To get you in the mood for the 2012 Festive Season, Devon Life has arranged a fun and fabulous readers’ event in Exeter’s historic Gandy Street.

Readers (who have booked a space), are invited to join Devon Life for an evening of festive drinks and nibbles plus a fascinating ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the unique jewellery workshop hidden below Paul Ashby-Crane & Son’s stylish Gandy Street showrooms.

Your guide will be diamond expert Robert Ashby-Crane accompanied by his wife Dania. Robert trained with his father Paul in Exmouth and then went on to develop his skills...

“It’s time to go to the gym and get awesome”! This thought or something similar has probably popped in to our heads at some stage, whether it be to enhance athletic performance, to look good in speedos, or to improve health. But simply going to the gym / track / pitch may not cut it. There are a few factors that need to be addressed before we can claim ‘gym rat / gym bunny’ success.

Here are a few that are essential. In no particular order except the first one which should be the main focus at all times:

1. Decide on goal. Ask yourself what you want from your endeavour and...