This week Georges Marciano, the founder of Guess clothing, spent just over sixteen million dollars (£7,900,000) on a single diamond at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva. The price fell just short of a new world record.

43% of the nation's private workforce — about 50 million employees — don't get paid when they call in sick, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says.

No Country for Old Men is suspenseful, bleak and haunting. Nothing about it is life-affirming, yet one can't help but be uplifted by the mesmerizing quality of the filmmaking and the masterful performances.

A restraining order against Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was lifted Friday, officials said, but other government authorities said Bhutto's movements were still being restricted.

Norman Mailer, 84, one of the last surviving literary lions to roar out of World War II, died Saturday morning. In a fiesty career of highs and lows, Mailer wrote more than 40 books, won two Pulitzer Prizes and managed to be mentioned in everything from

Oil futures jumped more than $2 to a record above $96 a barrel Tuesday after bombings in Afghanistan and an attack on a Yemeni oil pipeline compounded supply concerns that have driven crude prices higher in recent weeks.