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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Diamond life: the year’s top fashion scandals

Naomi Campbell has been in the news again. This time, the notoriously abusive super model isn’t being written about for violently assaulting someone – the model nicknamed the “black panther” was slapped with a felony charge in 2006 for throwing a Swarovski-encrusted mobile phone at her housekeeper’s head.

Rather, this time, she is at the centre of a row over blood diamonds, precious stones that are illegally mined in war zones and countries ruled by dictators such as Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.