Today's Google Doodle marks the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube: the toy and/or puzzle that has rapidly infuriated and then eternally haunted almost person to have walked this fair Earth since ...

Aidan Grainger, who holds the UK national record for solving the 3x3x3 Rubik cube in the quickest time, was challenged to complete it on live TV.

Competitions held in school gymnasiums are usually loud. But this one was different: All that was heard amid the silence was the whirring of plastic.