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Indian holy city lights 1.5m lamps to retain Diwali world record

As dusk fell on Sunday, over 1.5 million oil lamps were lit and kept burning for 45 minutes on the banks of Saryu River in the northern city of Ayodhya, India

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There's a Guinness World Record for jump scares - And it's been broken

Scare easy ? Then proceed with caution.

Mobility

Usain nuts and bolts: A running robot just won a Guinness World Record

Cassie uses machine learning to imitate human behaviour, managing to sprint 100 m without falling over in just over 24 seconds.

Nature

Meet the two-headed tortoise with multiple personalities

Janus, the world’s oldest two-headed tortoise has two different personalities: one head is partial to endives and the other to carrots.

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Belgium

Record-breaking round-the-world pilot, 17, listened to sister's advice

Mack Rutherford, a 17-year-old British-Belgian pilot, became the youngest person to fly solo around the world earlier this month. Euronews caught up with him.

Europe News

Watch: European teen is youngest person to fly around the world solo

Mack Rutherford, a 17-year-old pilot, spent five months travelling through 52 countries and crossing the equator twice.

Culture news

Queen Bey: Beyoncé shatters yet another record

With new song ‘Break My Soul,’ Beyoncé has become the first woman in history to have 20 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist and 10 on the chart as a member of a group.

People

Ice swimmer breaks 2 world records crossing dangerous Antarctic waters

Barbara Hernandez is the first person ever to swim three nautical miles in the world’s ‘most feared waters’.

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Mexico City tries to break record for world's largest boxing class

Mexico City brings together 14,299 of people in the downtown Zocalo square to beat the Guinness record for the most crowded boxing class in the world.

Culture news

'Counting Dracula': Vampire gathering in England smashes world-record

A total of 1,369 people dressed as vampires gathered in the grounds of Whitby Abbey in England, to set a new world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as the ghoulish character, breaking the previous record of 1,039 set in 2011.

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103-year-old Swedish woman sets record for world's oldest parachuter

103-year-old Rut Larsson becomes the world's oldest person to complete a tandem parachute jump after skydiving in Motala, Sweden.

People

Watch this man tightrope walk across France's most iconic landmark

French tightrope walker, Nathan Paulin just broke his own world record as he crossed 2.2km of slackline to Mont Saint-Michel.

Culture news

Watch: This is officially the biggest wave ever surfed

German surfer, Sebastian Steudtner has received a Guinness World Record certificate for the biggest wave surfed in the world, for his surf on 29 October 2020

Culture news

112-year-old Venezuelan named 'world's oldest man'

Juan Vincente Mora is the world's oldest man at 112. He has 41 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.

Experiences

The world’s longest suspended pedestrian bridge opens today in Czechia

Czech Republic opens their record-breaking ‘Sky Bridge’ today.

Experiences

Where has the world's longest glass-bottomed bridge just been built?

In a bid to bring tourists back to Vietnam, the nation’s government has constructed the longest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.

Poland

Brave swimmers take part in Poland’s first underground relay

Hundreds of swimmers braved the elements to swim through an underground corridor at the Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Gory, on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Culture news

Venezuela wins Guinness record for world's largest orchestra

"If you break a string, don't stop. If you lose the score, go on by heart, but don't stop," conductor Andrés David Ascanio said before the performance.

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Venezuela pursues world's largest orchestra record

Hundreds of violins, violas and double basses sounded at Venezuela's military academy on Saturday, then woodwinds, brass and percussion gradually joined in — thousands of musicians, mostly children and adolescents, with one goal: setting the record as the world's largest orchestra.

Destinations

Is this the most beautiful world record you’ve ever seen?

The city of Ayodhya broke a world record with its beautiful Diwali celebrations.