Hang Son Đoòng (the name means "Mountain River Cave") is the world's largest single cave passage, based on its overall dimensions. It is around 200 metres (655 feet) high, 150 metres (490 feet) wide ...

A year on from growing a record pumpkin with his twin brother, Ian Paton has returned to establish a new horticultural ...

Dropping nearly four metres on a mountain bike is enough to make most people slam on the brakes, but for Mario Neurauter (Austria), it was an opportunity to take his riding to new heights. With dreams ...

The shortest escalator is the moving walkway at Okadaya More's Shopping Mall at Kawasaki-shi, Japan, which has a vertical height of 83.4 cm (2 ft 8 in). It was installed by Hitachi Ltd. The shortest ...

The longest speech ever given to the UN was delivered in 1957 by the Indian politician VK Krishna Menon, who talked for nearly eight hours while defending India's position on Kashmir. Records change ...

At the 2020 British Puzzle Championship, Sarah Mills (UK) solved a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle depicting London landmarks in 1 hour 40 minutes. That's an average of one piece every six seconds. The ...

The longest chilli pepper (Capsicum annuum) was grown by Jürg Wiesli (Switzerland) and measured 56.3 cm (1 ft 10.1 in) long as verified at the European Pumpkin and Vegetable Weigh-Off Championship in ...

One of Guinness World Records' most coveted and hotly contested titles, the chicken nuggets record has been beaten at the Mediaset Studios, Milan, in the backstage of the Guinness World Records ...

California resident Edwin Castro has been revealed as the winner of the world’s greatest jackpot in a national lottery, over three months after the numbers were drawn in November 2022. Overcoming odds ...

On the 26th of January 1972, Vesna Vulović was a flight attendant onboard JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367. The flight path, between Stockholm in Sweden and Belgrade in Serbia, took the aircraft over ...

The students were teenagers – but then again, so was the professor. As Nathan Thomas (USA, b. 9 September 2004) walked into COP 2270: C for Engineers at Miami Dade College in August 2023, he was met ...

Most parks would feature plenty of green open spaces and maybe a nice bench to sit on and take in the views. The new record we are about to show you has both... just smaller... much smaller. The park ...