Record-breakers in the news today
Super-hero blockbuster The Avengers was the big winner at last night's MTV movie awards, winning three out of a possible four prizes.
The action film won movie of the year and best fight, while the award for best villain went to British actor Tom Hiddleston who plays the film's main antagonist Loki.
The film holds the title for most successful superhero movie at the international box after taking $1,511,757,910 (£938,485,000) in its 22 weeks on general release between 4 May and 4 October 2012.
The film, directed by Joss Whedon (USA), accounted for 52% of all domestic box-office takings in the USA for the month of May last year.
Scientists working at Massachusetts General hospital have made a major medical breakthrough after growing a kidney in a laboratory and successfully transplanted it into a rat.
The work marks an important step towards the growing of personalised replacement organs that could be transplanted into people with kidney failure.
The largest kidney weighed 1.8 kg and measured 30 x 13 x 10 cm (11.81 x 5.12 x 3.94 in). It was removed from Mst. Waziran Malah (Pakistan) by Dr. Abdul Rasheed Shaikh at the Chandka Medical College Hospital, Larkana Sindh, Pakistan, on 26 January 2010.
To the world of golf where Adam Scott clinched his maiden major title by winning the U.S. Masters following a tense sudden-death play-off against Angel Cabrera.
The win saw Scott become the first Australian to win the tournament, a feat that had eluded his hero and fellow countryman Greg Norman.
While 58-year-old Norman has never got to don the prestigious green jacket worn at Augusta during his illustrious career, in 1996 he did however managed to score the lowest single round score at the Masters with a score of 63, matching a record set by Nick Price (Zimbabwe) ten years earlier.
Finally, today marks the 306th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, which has been celebrated by Google with the publishing of an interactive Google doodle.
A pioneer of most modern mathematical terminology and notation, he was also renowned for his work in mechanics and astronomy, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
The current longest-standing maths problem is the conjecture posed by Christian Goldbach (1690-1764), a Russian mathematician, in 1742. Goldbach's Conjecture states that every even positive integer greater than 3 is the sum of two (not necessarily distinct) primes. No one has succeeded in proving or disproving the validity of this conjecture in 257 years.
