The world's biggest diamond in 13 years went on sale on Wednesday in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The successful bidder, for the gem that was mined in Lesotho, shall be named by the Antwerp Diamond Centre on Monday. Dubbed "Lesotho Promise," the owners found it hard to give the monetary value of the piece. To get the price of a diamond rock, traders need to know how many cuts can be made out of it. The 605-carat diamond is about a third bigger than the size of a golf ball.

South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday led a parade in salute for the nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants participating in the 48-nation Homeless World Cup football tournament. The week long event is aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.

South African Christians seeking a quick spiritual boost will be able to download the entire bible on to their mobile telephones phones from Wednesday as part of a drive to modernize the scriptures. Rev. Gerrit Kritzinger, chief executive of the Bible Society in South Africa, said in a statement, "The Virtual Bible will enable the Bible Society to supply the Bible to every modern cell phone user in a fast and affordable format. "

Seventy-three surfers broke the world record simultaneously by catching and riding the same wave off the coast off South Africa, according to organizers of a world record surfing attempt. Surfer Paul Botha who helped organize the event at Muizenberg Corner in Cape Town told AFP, "We have smashed the record. " Botha told SAFM public radio "We have registered the claim and got a claim number.

According to the Palm Beach Post, doctors are amazed that Tony Huesman from Ohio is still alive 28 years after his heart transplant. His heart had been damaged by a pneumonia virus, which had caused his heart to enlarge by four times its normal size and the walls of the heart to stretch and become "paper thin. "When Huesman received the transplanted heart in 1978 at Stanford University, it was one of the only United States' (U. S. ') transplant centers doing this type of surgery. Most other heart surgeons and locations had abandoned the transplantation of hearts, because most patients were not surviving very long after surgery.