The medieval town of Bergamo in northern Italy was preparing Sunday to beat a record for the world's biggest collective hug, a stunt by the local tourist board to publicize a heritage site.
The world’s biggest oil companies are borrowing record amounts of money to cope with a slump in crude prices.
The number of civilians killed or wounded in Afghanistan last year was the highest recorded since 2009, the UN said yesterday, with children paying a particularly heavy price.
A Mumbai teenager's record-breaking 1,009 not out wasn't the match's only startling statistic - one of the boundaries was only 30 yards long ...
