Sharp-eyed travellers find a gem in the desert

A woman who lost her wedding ring in a vast Australian desert is to be reunited with it after tourists found the “lucky jewel” on a sand dune.

Elizabeth Docherty was travelling in outback Queensland in June when she realised the ring had slipped off her finger. She assumed it was lost forever until learning on Tuesday that police in the town of Birdsville had issued an alert for the owner of a silver gem ring.