Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Pierced Man', Rolf Bucholz of Germany, poses in front of the camera. Bucholz has 453 piercings on his body. The picture is taken in Dortmund, October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender ...
03:05 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Toronto: Fauja Singh, a 100-year-old runner who attracted worldwide attention when he completed a Marathon in over eight hours, won't be recognised as the world's oldest marathoner because he can't show a birth certificate. Guinness World Records said it won't recognise Singh, a Briton of Indian-origin, as the world's oldest marathoner because he can't show a birth certificate from 1911. "We'd love to say this is a true Guinness World...
10:16 AM, Oct 25, 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
London: A six inch long pug is up for the title of the world's smallest dog, a media report said. The pug is just 6 inches long and weighs one pound six ounces - four ounces less than the Guinness World Record holder, Brandy the chihuahua, 'The Sun' reported. The pug is a 'toy' (very small) breed of dog with a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail. The breed has...
04:03 PM, Oct 10, 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
London: A Briton is all set for a new Guinness world record for the longest motorbike - 22 metres long and with 25 seats. Colin Furze, 31, spent a month building the motorbike, which is as long as a tennis court, the Daily Mail reported. He used a 125 cc moped and extended it using an aluminium frame. Furze, a plumber by profession, managed to drive the bike up to...
07:26 PM, Jul 28, 2011
London: The sale of a 200-year-old bottle of white wine for 75,000 pounds ($121,000) has set a new Guinness World Record for the most valuable bottle of white wine ever sold. The buyer of the 1811 Chteau d'Yquem was private collector Christian Vanneque, former head Sommelier at the Michelin starred La Tour d'Argent restaurant in Paris. Though Chteau d'Yquem is famed for being one of the finest and most expensive...
11:26 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Asuncion: There is a new hot dog in the Guinness Book of Records after a sausage in Paraguay claimed victory as the "world's largest" at record of 203.8 meters long, event officials said. Guinness representative Johanna Hessling, who travelled to the exhibition, confirmed yesterday that the Paraguay sausage broke the previous record of 150 meters held by a Spanish encased meat. After being prepared by 245 people and served with...
12:24 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Sao Paulo: A Brazilian woman listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person died on Tuesday, just weeks shy of her 115th birthday. The title now reverts to a woman in the United States. Maria Gomes Valentim died of multiple organ failure, said Helerson Lima, a spokesman for the nursing home where she lived. Valentim would have turned 115 on July 9. Guinness on Tuesday said on its...
09:07 AM, Jun 22, 2011
London: Four hundred men and women in Britain peeled off their clothes and went into freezing waters to set a world skinny-dipping record, a media report said Monday. The naked bathers attempted the record in Wales, The Sun reported. The bathers had to remain waist-deep for 10 minutes to break the previous Guinness Book record set by 250 people. "It was exhilarating," 25-year-old Lizzy White who had flown in from...
11:50 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Philippines: A poor Filipino blacksmith's son who stands less than 2 feet (60 centimeters) tall was declared the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records on his 18th birthday on Sunday, sparking a celebration in his far-flung hometown. The title was bestowed on Junrey Balawing in Sindangan in the southern Philippines, with Balawing's parents, villagers and officials showering the coastal town's newly famous resident with a feast, a cake, balloons...
12:55 PM, Jun 12, 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
Kathmandu: An 82-year-old former Nepalese foreign minister has died on the slopes of Mount Everest while attempting to become the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain, an official said on Tuesday. Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay was returning from the first camp set on the slopes of Everest back down to the base camp when he collapsed on Monday evening, Mountaineering Department official Tilak Pandey told The Associated Press by...
11:44 PM, May 10, 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
London: The world's oldest man has died of an undisclosed illness at the age of 114 at his home in Montana, US. Walter Breuning was awarded the title of the oldest man by the Guinness Book of World Records after Briton Harry Allingham died in July 2009, according to The Sun. Bruening worked in the Great Falls area of Montana since 1918. US Senator Max Baucus who had honoured Breuning...
05:29 PM, Apr 16, 2011
