A rare colorless diamond found in the South African is set to be auctioned off in Hong Kong in late May. The 101. 27-carat gem, which was unveiled on Tuesday, is the largest colorless diamond to appear at auction in twenty years and will reportedly fetch no less than $6 million.

Paintings by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, which were stolen last week in one of the world's largest art heists, were recovered in an abandoned car in Zurich, Switzerland. The two paintings, worth an estimated $64 million dollars (44 million euros), were stolen from an museum in Zurich, but police say the artworks were found in good condition at the back seat of a car parked at a psychiatric hospital in the city.

A Valentine's Day art auction organized by U2 frontman and social campaigner Bono has raised more than $40 million for the United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa. The auction in New York sold modern works from Damien Hirst, Georg Baselitz, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Anish Kapoor and Jeff Koons.

A sculptor in England has been so humiliated after his latest opus intended to depict Saddam Hussein's wife had been mistaken for trash. Graham Hudson contemporary sculpture, a collage of oil drum, cable wheels, cardboard boxes, paint and adhesive tape is fast becoming a subject of ridicule among passers-by in Holland Park who have mistaken the work of art for rubbish.

A photographer from Kent has come up with other uses for his groceries other than eating them - use them as art materials. Using vegetables, meat, fish and dairy products, Carl Warner has come up with amazing pieces of artistic photos, which included a Broccoli Forest, Salmon Sea and Mushroom Field among others.