With more than 150 million copies sold in 40 languages, Guinness World Records is one of the best-selling books in history. In it, you'll find the shortest, tallest and fastest, alongside jaw-dropping ...

Hundreds of skydivers who took to the skies over LaSalle County this week proclaimed victory by setting a world record. After five days of challenging weather conditions, 174 athletes broke the ...

Update: The skydivers have set one of two world records. Find the latest updates here. Hundreds of skydivers from around the world are in Illinois this week, attempting to break two skydiving records.

Californians made and broke world records in 2025, while others were lost due to the January wildfires, like one in Altadena.

The oddest Guinness World Records of 2025 include a skateboarding swine, a barefoot run across Legos and a man who fit 81 ...

There’s an irony to meeting Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis on the 39th floor of his hotel in Tokyo. He seems much more at home up in the air than down on the ground. On Monday, the Swedish pole vaulter ...

On August 7, at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, Jonathan Edwards produced the two greatest triple jumps the world had seen, one after the other. In an enthralling 20 minutes of ...

The team of Polish anglers caught the massive Wels catfish in Rybnik reservoir in southern Poland. Photo courtesy Polish Angling Academy / via Facebook A team of Polish anglers claims to have caught ...