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The 5 most daring and strange records broken around the world

Records involving Rubik's cubes, handstands and quad bikes have been broken for 2022 Guinness World Record Day.

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Switzerland claims record for world’s longest passenger train

The world record event was organised as part of celebrations for the 175th anniversary of railways in Switzerland.

Switzerland

Swiss claim record for world’s longest passenger train

Train company Rhaetian Railway has claimed the record with its 100-carriage-long convoy spanning 1.91 kilometres, which went on a spectacular trip through the Swiss Alps.

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

Scare easy ? Then proceed with caution.

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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.

Switzerland

1,350 kilos of potatoes used to cook up world's largest rösti

The Swiss Farmer’s Union cooked up a 13 square metre rösti in the shape of the Swiss cross in front of the parliament building in Bern on Monday.

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Michael Jordan's 'Last Dance' jersey sells for a record $10.1m

A jersey worn by basketball legend Michael Jordan during Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals, his last title victory, has sold for a record $10.1 million. But is it the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold?

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.

Hacker Hunter

Virtual athletes push gaming to its limits

A co-production with Kaspersky

What happens when video gaming is taken to the absolute extremes? Hacker Hunter meets the gamers doing just that for charity.

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Giant sandwich breaks Mexico City record

Mexican restaurateurs paid tribute to a variety of local sandwiches on Wednesday by making a gigantic "torta" with a multitude of fillings.

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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.

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Thousands gather for record picnic to celebrate Queen's Jubilee

Thousands of people gathered for the Big Jubilee Lunch on The Long Walk in Windsor as part of Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee celebrations

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Japanese man becomes oldest person to sail Pacific

83-year-old Kenichi Horie crossed the Pacific single-handedly, without stopping, in a 70-day trip.

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.

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Watch: Frenchman breaks world record for longest tightrope walk ever

On Tuesday, French tightrope walker claimed a new world record as he completed a 2,200-metre-long (nearly 1.4-mile) trip to Mont Saint-Michel along a wire suspended between a crane and the famous abbey on the tidal island.

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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.

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World's longest suspension bridge opens in Czech Rep

A pedestrian suspension bridge that is the longest such construction in the world has opened at a mountain resort in the Czech Republic.

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Brazilians claim world's biggest-ever barbecue

The Parauapebas City Hall, located in Pará state in northern Brazil, organise what they claim as the "biggest barbecue in the world" to celebrate the city's 34th anniversary.

People

Watch this stunning footage as a man completes world first in the Alps

“It’s not just 6 days, it’s been 32 years of work to get here.”

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Billie Eilish helped Rutherford through record breaking solo flight

The teenager says the hardest part of her trip was flying over Siberia but a 40-hour playlist kept her going through the frozen arctic.