Tokyo: The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday. Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation decks of the 634-meter (2,080-foot) tower to mark its opening. Some reportedly waited in line more than a week to get the coveted tickets for a panoramic view, though on Tuesday ended up being cloudy in Tokyo. Skytree...
11:50 AM, May 22, 2012
Dhaka: A six-year-old boy from Bangladesh who began typing as a three year-old and knew how to programme and download games at the age of four, is hoping to become the world's youngest computer expert and get recognition from the Guinness World Records. As a toddler, Wasik Farhan-Roopkotha started showing an aptitude for computers and mastered several popular video games, BBC reported. "I knew he was very different since his...
11:28 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Provo (Utah): In one of the rarest feats in the annals of family planning, an Utah woman has given birth on a third consecutive Leap Day, tying a record set in the 1960s. David and Louise Estes' daughter Jade was born on Wednesday morning in Provo, an hour south of Salt Lake City, four years after their son Remington was born on February 29, 2008, and eight years after their...
08:34 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Kathmandu: A 72-year-old Nepalese man who is about the size of a toddler on Sunday became the world's shortest person ever recorded. A doctor and Guinness World Records official measured Chandra Bahadur Dangi to confirm his height of 21.5 inches (54.6 centimeters). Guinness official Craig Glenday presented Dangi with two certificates for being the world's shortest living man and the world's shortest person recorded in Guinness' 57-year history. "I am...
09:20 AM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: An attempt is being made to create a new world record in Aurangabad where an event has been organised to break the Guinness world record of most people singing the national anthem at the same place. The event started with a performance by noted singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan at 8 am and actual program of singing the national Anthem to break the Guinness world record began at...
09:50 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Tokyo: The Tokyo Sky Tree, a 634-meter TV tower located in Tokyo, has been recognised as the world's tallest tower by the Guinness World Records. At a ceremony held on Thursday, Alistair Richards, managing director of Guinness World Records, personally handed the certificate to Michiaki Suzuki, president of Tobu Tower Sky Tree Co, Kyodo news agency reported. "One of the purposes of the tower construction is to let the world...
05:04 PM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: Singing legend Asha Bhosle entered the Guinness World Records Thursday for the most single studio recordings. The 78-year-old has reportedly recorded up to 11,000 solos, duets and chorus-backed songs in over 20 Indian languages since 1947. Asha, who has evergreen numbers like 'Dum maro dum', 'Mehbooba mehbooba' ('Sholay'), 'Piya tu ab to aaja' ('Caravan') and 'Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko'('Yaadon ki Baraat') to her credit, was...
12:27 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Frank and Louie, a gray feline with two mouths, two noses and three eyes, just turned 12 years old and is the world's oldest, living two-faced cat. Sara Wilcox, a Guinness World Records spokeswoman said he is the "longest surviving Janus cat," referring to the name coined by British zoologist Dr Karl Shuker, based on the two-faced Roman god of transitions, gates and doorways. Frank and Louie has craniofacial duplication,...
11:26 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Fond Du Lac: A retired prison guard ate his 25,000th Big Mac on Tuesday, 39 years to the day after eating his first... nine. Don Gorske was honored after reaching the meaty milestone during a ceremony at a McDonald's in his hometown of Fond du Lac. Surely McDonald's most loyal customer, Guinness World Records recognized Gorske's feat three years and 2,000 Big Macs ago, and the 57-year-old says he has...
12:18 PM, May 18, 2011
London: It's official: Smokey the cat has roared her way into Guinness World Records having achieved the loudest purr by a domestic cat. Guinness said Thursday the gray-and-white tabby earned her place with record-setting 67.7 decibels. In a video on the cat's website, the 12-year-old, ordinary-size feline purrs with a sound akin to the cooing of an angry dove. Smokey first rose to prominence in February, when her owner, Ruth...
10:41 AM, May 06, 2011
Havana: A Cuban cigar roller broke his own record on Tuesday by rolling the world's longest cigar, a monster smoke that stretched 268 feet 4 inches, or most of the length of a football field. Resting on tables, it sprawled through El Morro, an old Spanish fort overlooking Havana Bay, where Cuba is holding its annual International Tourism Fair. The cigar, once it is officially accepted by Guinness World Records...
11:37 AM, May 04, 2011
Kathmandu: An Indian businessman has been carrying the flags of 305 countries on his own body to promote amity among nations. Now 70-year-old Har Prakash, who has re-invented himself as Guinness Rishi, is vying in Nepal for his latest world record, hoping to add more flags and more records."People call me a joker, a mad man," says the world record aspirant from New Delhi who arrived in Kathmandu to attend...
09:35 AM, Apr 25, 2011
Bangalore: Spelling the word 'Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' could stump many, but not 25-year-old Guinness Book record holder Shishir Hathwar, who can not only do it without batting an eyelid but in the reverse order as well. It is not just this word (which means fear of long words) he can rattle off, but a number of others including 'grotesqueness'. Bangalore based Hatwar, an Electronics Engineer in BHEL, clinched the world record this...
11:33 AM, Mar 14, 2011
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