Record-breakers in the news today
Former England skipper David Beckham has today announced he will leave Los Angeles Galaxy next month after six years at the American Major League Soccer (MLS) club.
Beckham's five-year stay in the States has proved to be an incredible money-spinner for the East London born midfielder, with the 37-year-old setting a world record in 2011 for the highest annual earnings for a footballer.
The former Manchester United and Real Madrid star earned $40 million (£24.2 million) from May 2010 to May 2011, a figure boosted in part by his lucrative sponsorship deal with Adidas.
Elsewhere in the world of sport, the much-missed Brazilian racing legend Ayrton Senna has today been named as Formula 1's greatest ever driver in a poll conducted by the BBC.
During his time with the Toleman, Lotus, McLaren and Williams teams, Senna set the world record for the most Formula One pole positions in a career.
The São Paulo driver notched up the world record for the most consecutive Formula One pole positions after earning 65 top spot positions on the grid before his exceptional career was tragically cut short following a fatal crash in 1994 while competing in the San Marino Grand Prix.
Senna's record was eventually beaten by Michael Schumacher who reached 68 Pole positions in 2006.
However, the German ace reached the marked after 249 Grand Prix starts, a far greater number than the 161 races that Senna competed in.
Elsewhere, the big story in world of business is the news that a British trader who lost £1.4bn ($2.2bn) of Swiss bank UBS's money has been found guilty of two counts of fraud.
Kweku Adoboli, 32, was sentenced to seven years in prison, with the prosecution telling Court he was "a gamble or two away from destroying Switzerland's largest bank".
While Adoboli's losses for UBS are amongst the biggest ever recorded in the financial world, they don't come close to those sustained by Société Générale at the hands of Jerome Kerviel.
In 2008, the French bank became the victim of the largest fraud by a rogue trader after it declared that it had uncovered a fraud that had resulted in losses totalling an incredible €4.9 billion ($7.16 billion; £3.6 billion), following illegal trading by a member of its staff. Later that year, French trader Jerome Kerviel was taken into police custody and was later said to have admitted hiding his activities from his superiors.
Finally, the typewriter is officially history in Britain, with the last model to be built in the UK rolling off the production line at Brother's north Wales factory this morning.
In the age of computers and word processors, the humble mechanical device has lost its place as a staple of modern communication, but significant examples remain sought after by collectors.
The world's most expensive typewriter is recorded as Ian Fleming's gold plated Royal Quiet Deluxe Portable, which was commissioned by theJames Bondwriter in 1952.
It was sold for £56,250 ($90,309) at Christie's, London, UK on 5 May 1995.
