Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alessandro Biancardi with the pending world-record Wels catfish. Although it's hard to say for sure, this is likely the biggest ...

The women’s 100 meters remains one of the signature events in track and field, a straight-line sprint that has produced world records, Olympic champions and global stars. It is the shortest distance ...

It wasn’t long ago that the world record in the women’s 200-meter butterfly seemed untouchable. Late in 2009, just before the super-suit era ended, China’s Liu Zige uncorked an eye-opening 2:01.81 ...

Almost very discipline in women’s swimming saw at least one long course world record beaten or challenged in 2025. At the Fort Lauderdale Pro Series in May, Katie Ledecky knocked off her long-standing ...

The fun part about world records is that anyone can take a swing at breaking them, which is what [Luke Maximo Bell] has been doing with the drone speed record for the past years, along with other ...

Keely Hodgkinson during the 4x400m Relay Final at the World Indoors in March Dan Mullan/Getty Images Keely Hodgkinson is chasing greatness. Already at 24 she has run her way into the middle-distance ...

Recently celebrating its 70th anniversary, Guinness World Records (formerly known as the Guinness Book of Records) has been documenting record-breaking achievements since 1955. When the first book was ...

A man has broken a Guinness World Record after singing Christmas tunes for 42 hours straight – without losing his voice. Dave Purchase spent almost two days singing Christmas classics from Mariah ...