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17-year-old becomes youngest round-the-world solo flier

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 25 10:28 AM

Mack Rutherford, a British-Belgian 17-year-old, landed in Bulgaria on Wednesday to become the youngest person to fly solo around the world. Read more »

Is this goat the GOAT? Long-eared kid takes Pakistan by storm

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 08 07:20 AM

A kid goat with extraordinarily long ears has become something of a media star in Pakistan, with its owner claiming a world record that may or may not exist. Read more »

Venezuelan is world's oldest living man

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 18 06:50 AM

A 112-year-old Venezuelan farmer has been officially recognized as the oldest living man following the death of a Spaniard who was the previous holder of the title. Read more »

World's oldest person dies at 119

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 25 06:02 PM

A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said. Read more »

Guinness debunks UniTeam supporters’ world record claim

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 31 05:00 AM

Guinness World Records on Wednesday debunked a claim on social media that a UniTeam gathering in Ilocos Norte is the ‘world’s longest caravan.’ Read more »

Israeli farmer grows world's heaviest strawberry

Reuters
Posted at Feb 18 08:00 AM

Israeli farmer Chahi Ariel has grown the world's heaviest strawberry, according to Guinness World Records. Read more »

'Baby Shark' sets world record with 10B YouTube views

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 20 02:16 PM

The Guinness World Records has recognized popular children song "Baby Shark" as the first video to reach 10 billion views on video-sharing site YouTube. Read more »

BTS member V breaks 2 Guinness world records

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 15 11:23 AM

Kim Tae-hyung, also known as V of the popular K-pop boy band BTS, has broken two world records with his social media account. Read more »

Venezuela sets largest orchestra world record

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 21 09:20 AM

Venezuela on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) locked in the Guinness record for the world's largest orchestra after thousands of local musicians performed Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March." Read more »

How this Pinoy broke the Guinness record in skip rope

RHIA GRANA
Updated as of Oct 28 11:42 AM

“Skipman” Ryan Ong Alonzo says his training in basketball and marathon helped a lot in his muscle strength and endurance Read more »

World's shortest cow gets posthumous recognition

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 01 03:57 AM

Rani, just 20 inches high, became an instant Internet celebrity with tens of thousands of people rushing to the farm she lived on in Bangladesh. Read more »

Japanese identical twins recognized as world's oldest

Kyodo News
Updated as of Sep 21 06:59 PM

Two Japanese sisters aged 107 years and 300 days have been certified as the world's oldest living identical twins. Read more »

P1 million incentive urged for oldest Filipino alive

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 13 09:21 PM

A lawmaker urged fellow House members to grant P1 million to 'super centenarian' Francisca Susano who turned 124 years old last Saturday. Read more »

BTS honored in Guinness World Records 2022 Hall of Fame

Anna Gabrielle Cerezo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 03 12:23 PM

The Guinness World Records announced it is welcoming the wildly popular boyband BTS into its 2022 Hall of Fame. Read more »

America's tallest man dies at age 38

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 24 07:09 AM

The tallest man in America -- he stood 7 feet 8 inches (2.35 meters) -- has died of a heart problem at the age of 38, his mother said on Facebook. Read more »

Ito ang pinakamahal na French fries sa buong mundo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 09:10 PM

May French fries sa isang sikat na restaurant sa New York City sa Amerika na nagkakahalaga ng P10,000.  Read more »

These are the world's most expensive french fries

Angela Moore, Reuters
Posted at Jul 27 06:54 AM

As of July 13, Guinness World Records has certified that these fries, priced at $200 (more than 10,000 pesos) are officially the most expensive on earth. Read more »

Inspired by COVID? World’s tallest sandcastle built in Denmark

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 08 07:00 AM

Its creator wanted the 21.16-meter-high castle to represent the power of the novel coronavirus over the world since the beginning of the pandemic.   Read more »

‘World’s most premature baby’ nagdiwang ng unang kaarawan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 04:51 PM

MAYNILA — Sa kabila ng pangambang mahihirapan ang batang mabuhay dahil lubhang kulang sa buwan, nagdiwang na ang baby na si Richard Scott William Hutchinson ng kanyang unang kaarawan.    Read more »

These grade school kids from Muntinlupa are proof Filipinos have a bright future in robotics

RHIA GRANA
Updated as of Jun 02 06:38 PM

The kids also represented the country in what was dubbed by the Guinness World Records as the largest online robot championship   Read more »