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Garrett McNamara enters the Guinness Book for riding the biggest wave in Nazare, Portugal

In November 2011 Garrett McNamara caught a 78 ft wave at Nazare, off the coast of Portugal, beating the previous 2008 record by more than a foot

Garrett McNamara, a Hawaiian surfer, has entered the Guinness Book of Records for riding the biggest wave ever thought to have been ridden. In November 2011 Garrett McNamara caught a 78 ft wave at Nazare, off the coast of Portugal, beating the previous 2008 record by more than a foot. Garrett McNamara, 44, began surfing at age 11 and became professional six years later. He has described his achie…

New York City population hits record 8.3 million

New York City population is at an all-time high, with an estimated 8,336,697 residents living in its five boroughs

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

Sonya Thomas, 42, who is 5ft 5in and weighs 105lb claimed her record as part of the Wild Turkey 81 Eating World Championship, held in Times Square, New York

utes Chicken wings – 183 in 12 minutes Crabcakes – 46 3oz cakes in 10 minutes Eggs – 65 hard boiled in 6 minutes, 40 seconds Fruitcakes – 4lbs, 14oz in 10 minutes Gyoza – 206 n 10 minutes Jambalaya – 9lbs of crayfish variety in 10 mins Lobster – 11.3lbs of meat in 12 minutes MoonPies – 38 in 8 minutes Oysters – 46 dozen in 10 minutes Pizza R…

North East Skinny Dippers miss out on world record at Druridge Bay

Hundreds of swimmers have braved the cold of the Northumberland coast in an attempt at a record-breaking skinny dip

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…

Ukulele Picnic Week: Japan sets world’s record for largest ukulele ensemble

A new world record for the largest ukulele ensemble has been set in Yokohama, Japan, at the Ukulele Picnic Week event

A new world record for the largest ukulele ensemble has been set in Yokohama, Japan, at the Ukulele Picnic Week event. More than 2,000 strummers gathered in Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, to trump the previous record set in Sweden. The group was watched by Guinness World Records officials, AFP news agency said, and played a song called Aloha Mahalo A Hui Ho, written by a Hawaii-born…

Jolene Van Vugt set the record for the fastest motorized toilet

Jolene Van Vugt recorded a speed of 75 km/h (46 mph) in Sydney, beating the previous record by 7 km/h

…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…

Mark Rothko’s artwork “Orange, Red, Yellow” sold for record $86.9M at Christie’s

Mark Rothko’s artwork “Orange, Red, Yellow” has achieved the highest ever price for a piece of contemporary art at auction fetching $86.9M

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…

Romania sets the world record for the longest wedding dress train

The world’s longest bridal train was unveiled in Bucharest, Romania

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…

Alicia Richman wins Guinness World Record for breast milk donation

Alicia Richman began donating breast milk shortly after giving birth to her son, now 19 months

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…

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner ready to set a new world record for the highest free-fall jump

Austrian skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest free-fall jump

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 &#…

World’s most expensive cocktail. Salvatore Calabrese breaks Guiness World Record.

Salvatore Calabrese broke the record for the world's most expensive cocktail

Guests at a London bar were hoping it wasn’t their round after a £5,500 ($8,600) cocktail was mixed by leading drinks expert Salvatore Calabrese. Salvatore Calabrese broke the record for the world’s most expensive 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 c…

S&P 500 closes at record high after more than 5 years

The S&P 500 index closed on March 28 at a record high of 1,569

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 strips down in her raciest photo shoot ever for V magazine

Miley Cyrus has posed for a new issue of V magazine in her raciest photo shoot ever

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 buys Alexander McQueen gown for record price

Lady Gaga is understood to pay record price for a gown by her late friend Alexander McQueen

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…

Cheetah robot sets new speed record beating Usain Bolt

Cheetah robot has set a new world speed record for legged robots, running faster than Usain Bolt

Cheetah robot has set a new world speed record for legged robots, running faster than Usain Bolt, who is considered the fastest human. The headless machine, funded by the Pentagon, reached 28.3 mph (45.5 km/h) when tested on a treadmill. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s top speed is 27.78 mph (44.7 km/h). The project is part of efforts to develop robots for military use. One robotics expert s…

Four-legged robot Cheetah set a new world speed record

Cheetah, a four-legged and headless robot, has set a new world speed record, according to DARPA

of the researchers to hold the tubing out of its way. However, the researchers said a free-running prototype was planned for later this year. The four-year project, which was commissioned in February 2011, ultimately aims to deliver a robot which can “zigzag to chase and evade”, and be able to come to an abrupt halt. It builds on other models based on animals created by Boston Dynamic…

Barack Obama’s re-election campaign ad blasts Mitt Romney Bain Capital job record

Barack Obama’s ad 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

…rts Mitt Romney, released a campaign video focusing on the problem of growing student debt. The Crossroads video is an effort by Republicans to engage younger voters, many of whom back Barack Obama in 2008.  …

Garrett McNamara, Irish surfer set for World Records after he rode a 90 ft wave.

Garrett McNamara, an extreme Irish surfer is set to earn a place in the record books after riding a 90 foot wave in Portugal

…it slammed down into the bay on July 9, 1958. The Guinness World Book of Records had officially registered Mike Parsons as holding the title for the highest wave surfed at 77 feet feat in Cortez Bank, 2001. The previous unofficial record for the biggest wave ever surfed was held by Ken Bradshaw who rode an 85-footer in Hawaii’s Waimea Bay in 1998. In 2007, Daredevil McNamara became one of the firs…

Christina Aguilera fat: the singer opens up about her struggles with weight gain and record executives

Christina Aguilera has opened up about her struggles with weight and the pressure put on her by record industry executives to be skinny

Christina Aguilera has opened up about her struggles with weight and the pressure put on her by record industry executives to be skinny. The Voice star told Billboard magazine: “During the promotion of Stripped in 2002 I got tired of being a skinny, white girl.” Christina Aguilera, who has natural Latin curves, said: “I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed w…

Felix Baumgartner smashes YouTube live view record

More than eight million people flocked to their devices to watch Felix Baumgartner break the speed of sound live on YouTube

…wirelessly transmitted data about his heartbeat, respiration, skin temperature and other vital signs. “It’s a major coup for Equivital, which, despite its small size – currently only 25 employees – provides the US Army with its human body monitoring system,” the company said. The Red Bull Stratos scientists said the stunt had provided invaluable data for the developme…

Richard Burton Diaries: private record of events focused on the tempestuous years when he was married to Elizabeth Taylor

The bulk of Richard Burton’s diary focuses on the tempestuous years when he was married to Elizabeth Taylor

e Burt [nickname for Elizabeth] up at 12.00. Swam, sunbathed, lunched, bed, read, ate, slept. Whew! Burt a bit sarky today. Added in Elizabeth’s handwriting: He should fri**ing talk! “Wednesday 2nd: Had good row with Burt and accused her, among other things, of lousy taste. She accused me, among other things, of snobbery. I said the only thing we had in common was the game of Yahtzee [a dic…

ECB cuts benchmark interest rate to new record low of 0.5% to boost eurozone economy

ECB has decided to cut its benchmark interest rate to a new record low amid ongoing worries about the eurozone's economy

echnically ready” for negative deposit rates. The euro fell sharply on the comments, losing 0.6% against the pound to 84.135p, edging it towards the recent low of 83.98p that it reached on April 26. Against the dollar, the euro fell below $1.31. In recent months there have been growing calls for European countries to move away from austerity measures, which critics say are stifling growth. I…

Arctic sea ice reaches record low, NASA satellite shows

NASA has discovered the Arctic has lost more sea ice this year than at any time since satellite records began in 1979

kely 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 sq km) compared with a previous low of 1.61 m sq miles (4.17 m sq km) on 18 September 2007. The sea ice cap grows during the cold Arctic winters and shrinks when temperatures climb again, but over the last three decades, satellites have observed a 13% decline per decade in the summert…

Eurozone unemployment rate hits new record high in October, while consumer price rises slowed sharply

Eurozone unemployment rate hit a new record high in October

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…

Roland Garros 2012: Rafael Nadal won record seventh French Open after beating Novak Djokovic

Rafael Nadal won a record seventh French Open title after beating Novak Djokovic with in a rain-affected final

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…

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