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January 2025

  • PANAMA-SCIENCE-UNDERWATER-WORLD-RECORD<br>German aerospace engineer Rudiger Koch, 59, celebrates after breaking the Guinness world record for living in the ocean at a depth of eleven meters off the coast of Puerto Lindo, Panama, on January 24, 2025. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

    120 days: German man sets world record for living under water

    To celebrate, Rudiger Koch toasted with champagne and smoked a cigar before leaping into the Caribbean Sea

December 2024

  • Augustus Holm, middle, organized a Guinness World Record-setting shoe drive at just 18, only the latest chapter in a philanthropic career that largely began at age 13.

    The teen who gave away 21,600 pairs of shoes and set a record: ‘I’m doing this because it makes me feel good’

  • woman wearing light green jacket and white top touches heads with man wearing tan jacket and pants, both sitting in wheelchairs

    ‘They keep each other young’: couple aged 102 and 100 set record for oldest newlyweds

November 2024

  • Guinness World Record-holder Michelle Boyle taking part in roller skate limbo in the 1980s

    ‘It’s a pretty obscure, strange thing to do’: five Guinness World Record holders on their moment of glory, and life thereafter

  • Alyse Ogletree has donated a record amount of breastmilk enough to help nourish nearly 350,000 babies.

    Texas woman sets record for donating more than 2,000 liters of breastmilk

October 2024

  • Laura Enerver surfs Shipstern Bluff in Tasmania. The Australian has been named Big Wave Surfer of the Year.

    Australian Laura Enever crowned surfer of the year for slaying biggest, heaviest waves

    Sydney surfer recognised at Big Wave Challenge Awards a year after setting a world record for the biggest wave surfed by a woman

September 2024

  • Participants in a crowd wave flags and punch the air as a man on stage lifts a framed certificate

    New Zealand reclaims world record for largest mass haka

  • A teenage boy holds his white and blue cleats

    ‘It is OK to stand out’: US teen’s hands and feet are world record-setting

  • Hilda Baci

    Cookathons, speechathons and skipathons: the rapid rise of obscure world record attempts in west Africa

  • A silhouette of a plane in flight

    ‘I feared for my life’: record-setting US traveler says he was held as possible spy

August 2024

  • Man wraps woman in cling wrap on porch.

    Next-level sibling rivalry pushes US man to 181 Guinness World Records

  • John Alfred Tinniswood tucks into fish and chips

    World’s oldest man celebrates 112th birthday in Merseyside

  • Brittany Lacayo, the newly minted Guinness World Record holder for female with the widest tongue

    Her unusually wide tongue was once her secret. Now it’s given her a world record

  • Maria Branyas Morera sitting in a chair with balloons behind her

    World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies aged 117

July 2024

  • a yellow school bus

    World’s oldest bus driver stays behind the wheel in part to donate to charity

  • A teenage boy wearing a white button-down with a blue design and two braids smiles

    Lakota teen who set world record with hair says he is proud to represent tribe

June 2024

  • Kevin, a Great Dane who stands at 3ft 2in and comes from West Des Moines, Iowa, achieved the Guinness World Record for the world's tallest dog.

    Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies at age three: ‘He was the best giant boy’

    Great dane, named after the protagonist of the Home Alone film series, died after falling ill and undergoing unplanned surgery

  • A black Great Dane stands on its hind legs, with its front paw resting on the shoulders of a smiling white man wearing a purple polo shirt, jeans and a baseball cap on a grassy lawn - the dog's head is higher than the man's.

    The world’s tallest dog is an adorable scaredy cat, his owners say

    Kevin, a great dane from Iowa, is the same height as a three-year-old – but can’t stand up to his family’s vacuum cleaner

  • A man dressed similarly to Indiana Jones holds up fossilized poop.

    ‘Curiosity’ fuels world’s most prolific fossilized poop collector

    George Frandsen’s Poozeum in Arizona features nearly 10,000 coprolites – fossilized feces originating in Earth’s distant past

May 2024

  • At mere 10 days old, the American steer Romeo was saved from the slaughter by animal sanctuary owners Misty and Robert Moore.

    Romeo was saved from slaughter. He’s now the world’s tallest steer

    Romeo, who stands at 6ft 4.5in, unseated Tommy of Cheshire, Massachusetts, to claim the title

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