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Saints WR Thomas breaks Harrison’s receptions record

New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas broke Marvin Harrison’s single-season record for receptions by making his 144th on Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. Thomas made the grab, his 11th of the game, with 3:14 remaining in the fourth quarter on wha... More »

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Lions’ Stafford fastest QB to 40,000 yards

Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford became the fastest player to reach 40,000 NFL career passing yards on Sunday. He entered the game against the Minnesota Vikings needing 87 yards to hit the milestone and eclipsed it on a 36-yard completion to wideout ... More »

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World War Two veteran breaks own scuba diving record at 96

LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – A 96-year-old celebrated his birthday on Saturday by breaking his own record as the world’s oldest active scuba diver for the third year running, plunging to the depths of the equivalent of a 15-storey building to explore a shipwrec... More »

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As U.S. expansion notches record, recovery may have only just begun

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A now record-setting run of U.S. economic growth enters its 121st month on Monday, sustained by a decade of low interest rates and massive Federal Reserve intervention that helped put 22 million people back to work. But the real economic... More »

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Lucian Freud painting fetches $29 million at auction

LONDON (Reuters) – A nude painting by Lucian Freud has sold for $29 million dollars at auction, the highest price paid for one of the British figurative artist’s works in London, according to auction house Sotheby’s. Freud, who died in 2011, painted “Portrait ... More »

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Figure skating: Record-breaking Virtue, Moir dance into first place

Figure Skating – Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – Ice Dance short dance competition – Gangneung Ice Arena – Gangneung, South Korea – February 19, 2018 – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada perform. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – Ca... More »

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Energy stocks have room to build on solid start

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the closing bell in New York, U.S., February 2, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson NEW YORK (Reuters) – Energy stocks have got off to a strong start this year and look poised to run further, fue... More »

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Texas shale challenges North Sea crude as world oil benchmark

FILE PHOTO: Workers hired by U.S. oil and gas company Apache Corp drill a horizontal well in the Wolfcamp Shale in west Texas Permian Basin near the town of Mertzon, Texas, U.S., October 29, 2013. REUTERS/Terry Wade/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Surging shal... More »

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2017 record: Simona Halep vs Karolina Pliskova

Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – June 7, 2017 Romania’s Simona Halep in action during her quarter final match against Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina Reuters / Pascal Rossignol A look at the 2017 records of Romanian Simona Halep and Karolina Pli... More »

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North American movie box office sets record in 2016

A general view at the premiere of ‘Finding Dory’ at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California U.S., June 8, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni The North American movie box office raked in $11.4 billion in 2016, making it the highest-earning year in history, accordi... More »

Number of $5 billion-plus takeover deals hits record

LONDON A bumper North American railroad bid and three other big tie-ups announced this week have taken the number of takeover deals worth $5 billion or more to a record 128 this year, according to Thomson Reuters data. Pacific Railway’s bid for rival Norfolk S... More »