Record-breakers in the news today
The 75-year-old signed away her power after 33 years on the throne to Willem-Alexander, who becomes the country's first king since 1890.
The longest living reigning monarch in the world is King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX of the Chakri dynasty, of Thailand. The 88-year-old ascended to the throne on 9 June 1946, although his formal coronation did not take place until 5 May 1950.
Stunning images of a massive hurricane sweeping across Saturn's north pole have been taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
The twister has an eye of 2,000km (1,250mi) across - big enough to cover the entire UK 12 times over.
The images were taken from a height of 260,000miles by the spacecraft, which arrived at Saturn in 2004.
When it comes to planet earth, the category-5 Hurricane Wilma, which occurred during October 2005, was the strongest hurricane since records began in 1851. A hurricane hunter plane measured a barometric pressure in the eye of just 882 millibars the lowest ever recorded for a hurricane. Wind speeds in Wilma's eye wall reached a staggering 270 km/h (165 mph).
The aim is to preserve the original software and hardware associated with the birth of the internet.
The record breaking website, which had the address http://info.cern.ch/, was developed by Prof Sir Tim Berners-Lee while working at Cern, in an effort to explain exactly what the World Wide Web was and how to surf it.
Finally Wales Rugby Union star Sam Warburton has been confirmed as captain for the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia later this summer.
Lions boss Warren Gatland has picked Ireland's Jonny Sexton and England's Owen Farrell as his two fly-halves, with no place for England hero Jonny Wilkinson.
Martin Johnson (UK) holds the record for Most British and Irish Lions rugby union tours as captain, having skippered the squad in 1997 and 2001. In 1997 the team was victorious in South Africa, while in 2001 the Lions lost the close-run series in Australia 2-1.
