The world has recorded its hottest October on record as a powerful El Niño intensifies ahead of Australia's summer.

Brazil’s Alison dos Santos broke the 400m hurdles world record, running 45.80 seconds at a Diamond League meet in Zurich, Switzerland. Race video is here. Dos Santos broke the world record of 45.94 ...

Football has a new and deeply ignominious world record. As Guinness World Records confirmed today, an unprecedented 51 red ...

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 ...

Hong Kong, CHINA: The Guinness World Record Champion of Hula Hoops, Kareena Oates from Australia, performs at a local shopping mall, in Hong Kong, 22 December 2006. Oates manipulates about 70 ...

Meet Eric, the 16-year-old from Michigan, who has the largest hands and feet of any teenager. Unlike the average man who wears sizes between 9 and 12, according to Healthline, Eric wears a size 23.

Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships ...

Kate Douglass crushed her own world record in the 100m freestyle to close the USA Swimming World Short Course Championships ...

What are the longest-standing world records in each event? Swimming World analyzed the sport’s world-record progressions to present that data, which can be found below. It turns out that several ...

Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the genetics of longevity. By Monique Brouillette With an Afro that is more than six ...