Record-breakers in the news today
Film star Halle Berry has insisted that pregnancy won't stop her being an "integral part" of the newX-Menmovie.
Director Bryan Singer last month revealed that Berry would reprise her role as Storm - a mutant with the ability to manipulate the weather - in X Men: Days Of Future Past.
Since joingin the cast last month, Berry has announced she is expecting her second child and is believed to be three months into her pregnancy. However, she told Radio 1 Newsbeat that she has no intention of pulling out of the film for maternity leave, saying: "One thing is for sure, with another baby on the way, mama cannot take time off."
Shooting for the new movie, the sequel to 2011'sX-Men: First Class, begins this coming Monday.
The best selling single edition of a comic book is X-Men 1 (Marvel Comics, 1991) with sales of 8.1 million copies. It was created by Chris Claremont (UK) and Jim Lee (USA) who also drew four variant covers all of them published simultaneously with cover date October 1991.
After sparking an international dance craze with the release of his single Gangnam Style last year, Korean singer Psy has released his follow-up single, Gentleman, online.
Similar in style to his mega hit, the new track is full of puns in Korean and contains the lines 'I am a party mafia!' and the refrain, 'I am a mother father gentleman'.
"Gangnam Style" became the first video to receive 1 billion views online, with 1,000,382,639 views on YouTube as of 21 December 2012.
Microsoft has revealed gamers have spent more than 1 billion hours playing Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition since the game launched in May.
The figure is equivalent to over 114,00 years playing the building blocks game.
As of July 2012, Minecraft (Mojang, 2009) had notched up sales of 6,799,347 on the PC, with 35,915,045 registered accounts, making it the best-selling indie videogame of all time.
Finally, this Sunday marks the 80 th anniversary of the original 'sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
John Mackay and his wife spotted "something resembling a whale" as they passed the freshwater loch on a nearby road on April 14, 1933.
The longest continuous vigil at Loch Ness seeking the Loch Ness monster, spanning 21 years, is that of Steve Feltham, who arrived at Loch Ness in 1991 and has stayed there full-time ever since, living in a converted mobile library on the shore, and spending every day scanning the loch in search of the monster.
