It is indeed the richest deal in sports history, but the most valuable man on the baseball diamond today is Derek Jeter.

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Mr Biti, an MDC man, says his treasury has received no diamond revenue at all.

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Leading the selection is an emerald and diamond brooch, originally purchased by a Texas oil-man and personal client to Mr. Winston who called upon the jeweler for a significant gemstone.

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The man who grew the Queen's rose for her Diamond Jubilee last year has died at the age of 76.

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Today, under cross examination by MPs, Bob Diamond may reveal more about his call with Paul Tucker, the man from the Bank of England who said senior Whitehall figures were pressurising him.

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Britain's Barclays bank was publicly embarrassed in January when a British lawmaker quizzing its boss, Bob Diamond, asked him how many subsidiaries it had in the Isle of Man, Jersey and the Caymans.

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The diamond was once owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad, who was proclaimed the richest man in the world by Time magazine in 1937.

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