Record-breakers in the news today

Will Smith has revealed his reasons for turning down a role in director Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning movie Django Unchained.

Tarantino asked Smith to play the lead role in his western film, but the Independence Day star declined the part which eventually went to Jamie Foxx.

Smith says he explained that he felt the role of bounty hunter Dr King Schultz - played by Christoph Waltz - was more prominent than the one he was offered.

The largest audience at a 3-D film screening is 6,819 achieved by the German première of Men In Black 3 starring Smith in an event organised by Sony Pictures and O2 at O2 World in Berlin, Germany last year.

Tiger Woods’ has returned to the top of golf’s world rankings for the first time since October 2010 after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational by two strokes.

The 37-year-old comeback sees him replace Rory McIlroy as number one after dropping to a career-low 58th in November 2011.

Among his many records, Woods hold the title for youngest winner of the US Masters, having won the tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club at the tender age of just 21 years 104 days in 1997.

Summly, an app created by a British teenager has been bought by web giant Yahoo in a multi-million dollar deal.

The app, made by seventeen-year-old Londoner Nick D'Aloisio's, summarises news stories from popular media companies.

Speaking to the London Evening Standard, the Wimbledon-based teen, who launched the app when he was just 15, said: "I like shoes, I will buy a new pair of Nike trainers and I'll probably get a new computer, but at the moment I just want to save and bank it.

"I don't have many living expenses."

The youngest non-inherited millionaire was the American child film actor Jackie Coogan (1914–84). In 1923–24, he was earning $22,000 (£11,936) per week and retained approximately 60% of his films’ profits. He was a millionaire in his own right by the age of 13.

Finally an incredible spinning somersault kick which ended a bout at the recent PPO Karate Championships in Ulyanovsk, Russia has been become a viral hit online.

Fast-footed Semyon Moskalenko used the Do Mawashi technique in spectacular style to floor his unfortunate opponent in the Shinkyokushin bout.

The most martial arts kicks in one minute using a single leg (male) was 335 by Raul Meza (USA) at Meza's Karate America in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, on 17 November 2011.