A rare five-carat 'vivid pink' diamond ring broke the world record at Christie’s jewellry auction in Hong Kong, selling for $10.8 million dollars at $2 million a carat.

The Flemish masters, painters who shook the art world with their vivid representation of everyday people and life, are under the spotlight at a Paris exhibition.

Brian May, the Queen guitarist and expert astronomer, has ventured into another dimension, bringing the idyllic world of 1850s rural England back to life in vivid colour 3D.