Andy Murray’s bid to win Wimbledon was ended by Roger Federer as the Swiss claimed a record-equalling seventh SW19 triumph and 17th Grand Slam title. Andy Murray, 25, was aiming to become the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to lift a major singles trophy. Roger Federer, 30, won 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 on Centre Court to match the mark set by Pete Sampras and reclaim the world number one…
Rafael Nadal won a record seventh French Open title after beating Novak Djokovic with 6-4 6-3 2-6 7-5 in a rain-affected final. Rafael Nadal, 26, resumed leading 6-4 6-3 2-6 1-2, but his uncharacteristic wobble late on Sunday had fuelled Novak Djokovic’s belief. The Spaniard broke back in the first game of the day however, and then piled pressure on an unsettled Novak Djokovic. The Serb fin…
New York City population is at an all-time high, with an estimated 8,336,697 residents living in its five boroughs, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. More people moved into New York City in 2012 than moved out, marking the first time that’s happened in more than 60 years. Some 12,200 more people moved into the city than left it, with large immigrant populations adding to the city’s ever-chang…
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas’ turkey eating record was beaten by Takeru Kobayashi one day later. Takeru Kobayashi managed to scoff 7.5 lb of turkey in 10 minutes in Turtle Bay, New York, on Wednesday, beating Sonya Thomas’ 5.25 lb effort. Dan Rollman, of Recordsetter.com, told the Huffington Post: “Never in my life have witnessed food disappear like that. The man is true culinary Houdini….
Hundreds of swimmers have braved the cold of the Northumberland coast in an attempt at a record-breaking skinny dip. Despite more than 200 naked people running into the 12 C sea at Druridge Bay at sunrise, they failed to break the world record. Organizer Jacqueline Higginson said the event was still a “lot of fun”. The North East Skinny Dip was organized to held to raise money for men…
…ing Japan’s Ukulele Picnic Week. The diminutive guitar-shaped instrument originated from Hawaii, where it is also synonymous with hula dancing. The previous record was set in August last year by 1,547 uke-wielding Swedes in Helsingborg. …
Mark Rothko’s artwork “Orange, Red, Yellow” has achieved the highest ever price for a piece of contemporary art at auction – fetching $86.9 million. The 1961 painting was sold at Christie’s in New York. The auction house said the total takings of $388.5 million had beaten the previous record for a contemporary art auction, set in 2007. Last week Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” set t…
Alicia Richman, a North Texas mother, has been awarded a Guinness World Record for donating breast milk. Alicia Richman, 28, from Granbury, pumped over 86 gallons between June 2011 and March 2012 for donation to The Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas, a nonprofit that supplies neonatal intensive care units. The vast quantity equates to 11,000 oz – to put it into context, a typical newborn…
The world’s longest bridal train was unveiled in Bucharest, Romania, this week. To show off the two-mile gown, 17-year-old Romanian model Emma Dumitrescu took a ride in a hot air balloon as part of a promotion in the capital city of Bucharest, with the dress’ 1.85-mile-long train flowing dramatically under her. The 2,823.8-meter long ivory train, which took 100 days to stitch, was showcased…
…o fun and I’m stoked to get the record.” Jolene Van Vugt recorded a speed of 75 km/h (46 mph) in Sydney, beating the previous record by 7 km/h In order to win the title she was timed over 100 m (330 ft) in both directions. There were some problems early on when the chain fell out but the toilet was soon repaired. Jolene Van Vugt holds various world records for stunts on dirt bikes. &n…
Austrian skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest free-fall jump. Felix Baumgartner, 42, is aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles. The adventurer lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, New Mexico, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized capsule to 71,581 feet &#…
…Bolt According to DARPA, the aim is to “more effectively assist war fighters across a greater range of missions”. The Cheetah, which is powered by a hydraulic pump, broke its own record of 18 mph (29 km/h), recorded in February. “The Cheetah had a slight advantage over Bolt as it ran on a treadmill, but most of the power Cheetah used was to swing and lift its legs fast enough, no…
…sive cocktail with his “Salvatore’s Legacy” drink which was made up of ingredients more than 200 years old. Salvatore Calabrese, whose nickname is “The Maestro”, made the costly concoction using 1778 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac, 1770 Kummel Liqueur, Dubb Orange Curacao circa 1860 and two dashes of Angostura Bitters circa 1900s. The drink was valued at £5,500 ($8,600), smashing the previous…
The S&P 500 index closed on March 28 at a record high of 1,569, up 6 points or 0.4%. The last time the S&P 500 index broke into new territory was on October 9, 2007, when it closed at 1,565. The Dow Jones index was also up 0.4%, with a rise of 52 points taking it to a record 14,578. The S&P 500 index closed on March 28 at a record high of 1,569 The Nasdaq joined in the upbeat mood cr…
Miley Cyrus has posed for a new issue of V magazine in her raciest photo shoot ever. The young actress can be seen almost naked tugging on her underwear, unbuttoning her trousers and cupping her bare breast in the shocking images. Miley Cyrus, 20, also graces three different covers for V magazine, showing plenty of skin in each of them. She shed her Disney princess image long ago, but the starlet…
Lady Gaga is understood to pay record price for a gown by her late friend Alexander McQueen. Lady Gaga have set a new high for a McQueen, bidding £85,250 ($136,400) in a sale which saw her facing rival bids from institutions and couture collectors from around the world. She was among bidders, from 21 countries, who paid almost half a million pounds for items from the personal collection of Daphne…
Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has released a new ad seeking to undercut Republican rival Mitt Romney’s record on jobs. The new video features former workers of a steel plant that was bought and later shut down by Bain Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Mitt Romney. “It was like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us,” one former GST Steel e…
Cheetah, a four-legged and headless robot, has set a new world speed record, according to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA said Cheetah achieved 18 mph (29 km/h) on a laboratory treadmill and the previous land speed record by a legged robot was 13.1 mph. The agency said that the project was part of efforts to develop robots designed to “more effectively assist…
…largest number of concurrent live streams in the website’s history, Google confirmed. Austrian Felix Baumgartner also broke the record for the highest freefall. He jumped from a capsule taken to 128,100ft (24 miles; 39 km) above New Mexico in the US by a giant helium balloon. It took nine minutes for him to reach the ground. The adventurer plummeted at an estimated 833.9 mph (1,343 km/h), hi…
…time my label saw me, I was heavier, darker and full of piercings!” the five-time Grammy Award winner laughed. “Let me tell you, that wasn’t an easy pill for them to swallow. I had gained about 15 pounds during promotion and during my Stripped tour.” “They called this serious emergency meeting about how there was a lot of backlash about my weight,” she said. “Basically, they told me I would…
During the key points in his life, Richard Burton kept a private record of events, writing on and off until just a year before his death, at the age of 58, in August 1984. Now, for the first time, his widow Sally has agreed for it to be published in full. The bulk of the diary focuses on the tempestuous years when he was married (twice) to Elizabeth Taylor. It was written knowing Elizabeth Taylor…
Eurozone unemployment rate hit a new record high in October, while consumer price rises slowed sharply. The jobless rate in the recessionary euro area rose to 11.7%. Inflation fell from 2.5% to 2.2% in November. The data came as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned the euro would not emerge from its crisis until the second half of next year. Government spending cuts would continue…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to cut its benchmark interest rate to a new record low amid ongoing worries about the eurozone’s economy. The widely-expected cut to 0.50% from 0.75% is the first in 10 months. Worries about eurozone economies were underlined on Thursday with data showing manufacturing activity across the 17-nation bloc shrank in April. In Germany, the eurozone…
Superhero movie The Avengers has broken the record for the biggest US opening weekend, taking $200 million, early figures show. The previous best opening weekend was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which opened in July 2011 with $169 million. Included in the top five of biggest openers are The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3. The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusade…
NASA has discovered the Arctic has lost more sea ice this year than at any time since satellite records began in 1979. Scientists involved in the calculations say it is part of a fundamental change. What is more, sea ice normally reaches its low point in September so it is thought likely that this year’s melt will continue to grow. NASA says the extent of sea ice was 1.58 m sq miles (4.1 m…
Jose Manuel Barroso urges full tax data exchangeThe head of the European Commission has told the European Parliament he wants EU-wide exchange of income data as part of the fight against tax evasion. Jose Manuel Barroso…
Apple among America's big tax avoidersApple has been accused by US Senate of being "among America's largest tax avoiders". A Senate committee said Apple had used "a complex web of offshore entities" to avoid…
Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billionYahoo's board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion, US media reports say. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early…
Obama administration knew IRS was targeting conservative groups since June 2012Obama administration knew since June 2012 about an investigation into complaints from conservative tea party groups that they were being harassed by IRS, and the probe was…
Zahra Shahid Hussain shot dead in KarachiSenior Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's…
Phil Robertson, Miss Kay and Uncle Si do commercials for Clayton HomesDuck Commander Phil Robertson and his wife Miss Kay, the stars of Duck Dynasty, sliced some sweet potato pie and filled their audience in about Clayton Homes. “What do I…
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