Brussels: Olympic champion Aries Merritt of the United States broke the world record in the 110 metres hurdles while Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake won their sprints in the final Diamond League meet of the season on Friday. Merritt clocked 12.80 seconds, beating the mark of 12.87 set in 2008 by Cuban Dayron Robles, achieving a season-long obsession in his last race of 2012. "My vision was, if I...
10:28 AM, Sep 08, 2012
London: A total of 482 people wearing black pointed hats, black cloaks and carrying a broom have set a new world record for the biggest group of people dressed as witches in one place. The record was set on the 400th anniversary of the Pendle witch trials in Lancashire, the Daily Mail reported. The group trekked to Gallows Hill where 10 people were hanged in 1612 after being found guilty...
12:18 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Beijing: A Chinese man has tried to walk with a pair of iron shoes that weighed 300 kg in his attempt to break his previous Guinness record. Wukong attempted the feat in Sichuan province Wednesday, the Global Times reported. "I set the Guinness record by wearing a pair of iron shoes that weighed 200 kg last year. And this pair is 100 kg heavier," he said. Wukong began to walk,...
12:06 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: Subhash Chandra Agrawal's persistent inquiries have led to the revelation of many a scam. The illegal assets of judges, Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar's foreign trips, the former aviation minister's blatant misuse of national carrier Air India, and most recently the Rs 35 lakh toilet row in the Planning Commission premises. Agrawal wanted to be an IAS officer but was forced into his family's cloth business instead. But...
08:48 AM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: If media reports are to be believed then Bollywood actress Genelia D'Souza has been enlisted by the Limca Book of World Records for a very unique reason. The actress has achieved a unique feat by delivering four back to back hits in four different languages. Genelia D'Souza has given hits in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi languages. Recently married to Riteish Deshmukh, a Bollywood actor and the son...
06:36 PM, May 22, 2012
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
London: Three Britons in their 20s have undertaken a record-breaking trip around the world in a cab, travelling over 43,000 miles (over 69,000 km) and putting 80,000 pounds (about $128,600) on the meter. The three friends - Paul Archer, 25, Leigh Purnell, 24, and Johno Ellison, 28 - drove across four continents and 50 different countries in their trusty diesel motor, affectionately called Hannah, the Daily Express reported. They had...
11:45 AM, May 12, 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
The Guiness Book of World Records has refused to list the 101-year-old as the oldest marathon runner as he does not have a birth certificate to prove his age. ...
10:10 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Kathmandu: Home to Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, the scenic country of Nepal added another height-related superlative - of having the world's shortest man. A Guinness World Records team measured Chandra Bahadur Dangi at 54.60 centimeters (21.5 inches), declaring the 72-year-old even shorter the previous title holder, Junrey Balawing, from the Philippines, who stood at 23.5 inches at the age of 18 last year. "The good news is that...
10:14 AM, Mar 04, 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
New Delhi: Keshab Swain breaks a coconut with his elbows in an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records in Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Swain broke 85 coconuts in less than a minute to earn himself a place in Guinness World Records, according to news reports. (AP Photo) ...
02:39 PM, Mar 01, 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: In a rousing display of patriotism and unity, over 15,000 people from the city on Wednesday participated in a mass singing of national anthem 'Jana Gana Mana', creating a world record in the process. With a tally of 15,243, they took India into the 'Guinness Book of World Records' for "the most people singing a national anthem simultaneously", erasing the previous record held by Pakistan for 5,800 individuals....
06:43 PM, Jan 25, 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
Amidst fatwas and criticism from minority groups, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan performed surya namaskar along with lakhs of students on Thursday to mark Swami Vivekanand's birth anniversary. It was an attempt by the state govt to set a world record. ...
09:02 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Bhopal: Disregarding vocal protests from the minority communities, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh has decided to go ahead with its annual state-wide Surya Namaskar show, hoping to get it into the Guinness Book of World Records. The Madhya Pradesh government believes this year's exercise can edge out Kazakhistan, which holds the Guinness record for holding the largest mass, multi-location, aerobics demonstration. Over 1 crore people, including 50...
09:37 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Jyoti Amge, 18, who stands at 61.95 centimeters (2 feet), poses in front of a mirror as she prepares for a press conference with Guinness World Records at her home in Nagpur, Friday, December 16, 2011. Officials from Guinness were expected to measure Amge later Friday and declare her the World's Shortest Woman. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) ...
12:39 PM, Dec 16, 2011
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
