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A record 4.02 billion prescriptions were filled in 2011, costing almost $320 billion. In 2010, 3.99 billion prescriptions were filled with a total cost of $308.6 billion.

Country star Taylor Swift's latest single made a record-breaking entry in Wednesday's Billboard Digital Songs chart, scoring the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a female artist.

A massive so-called galaxy cluster, one of the largest structures in the universe, has been discovered about 5.7 billion light years from Earth and credited with setting several important new cosmic records, U.S.-based researchers said.

Rhys Millen took just 9:46.16 to climb the 14,110 foot summit.

Audi set the fastest Nürburgring-Nordschleife lap time of any production-based electric vehicle with its radical Audi R8 e-tron, which recorded a rapid 8:09.099 under the skilled hands of German racing driver Markus Winkelhock.

Under the talents of racing driver Markus Winkelhock, the production ready Audi R8- e-tron lapped the 12.92-mile Nordschleife circuit in just 8:09.099.