Gretchen Walsh has broken the 50 meter freestyle world record, becoming the fastest female sprinter in the history of ...

Gretchen Walsh now holds the world records in the 50m free and the 100m butterfly.

ROME (AP) — American swimmer Gretchen Walsh broke the world record in the women's 50 meter freestyle on Sunday, just nine days after her training partner Kate Douglass had set a new mark in the sprint ...

Monsieur Mangetout — that's Mr. Eats Everything in French — is famous for eating a plane, earning the Guinness World Record for world's strangest diet. His record is one of tens of thousands on the ...

Amir Menendez was certified as the owner of the 2024 Guinness World Record for largest afro on not just a teenager, but of any male living on Earth. The world’s most premature baby, born at just 21 ...

Guinness World Records has declared Sultan Kösen the tallest living man in the world (8 feet, 2.8 inches), Bilal Ilyas Jhandir the best at identifying Taylor Swift songs in a minute or less (34 songs) ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse.

The planet recorded its hottest day ever Sunday, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, as an unrelenting string of heat waves continue to topple daily record high ...

Lionel Messi continues to rewrite the record books with Argentina at the 2026 World Cup. He's not just top goal-scorer.

As the world's de facto record adjudicator, Guinness World Records keeps tabs on all manner of weird and wonderful feats. Toyota's humanoid robot which happens to be really good at basketball is a ...