One Piece and its author, Eiichiro Oda, entered the Guinness World Records for longest running series

Gordon Dam is 126.5m tall. We went to the top and put a basketball hoop at the bottom. The rest is history (and a new world record)!

Just how quick can four men change four wheels without electric tools?

Dwayne “ The Rock ” Johnson has set a Guinness World Record. No, it’s not the record for being the most electrifying man in sports entertainment or having the largest biceps in North America...

Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru just set the Guinness World Record for farthest flight ever on a hoverboard.

Move over Robert Downey Jr. — Twitter’s got a new king of the hill. President Barack Obama shattered Downey Jr.’s world record for fastest time to 1 million followers after launching his account Monday afternoon. The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed the record on its blog.

A town in Wales is hoping to break the jam tart world record in time for Alice in Wonderland's 150th anniversary. The town of Llandudno has been linked with Alice in Wonderland since Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice, spent her family holidays there. In order to mark the event, the town will today attempt to break the world record for the longest line of jam tarts.

A group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Sunday that they cooked up a Rice Krispies treat that shatters the Guinness World Record.

If Todd Reichert cannot regain control of his ultrafast bike, he will be cast at 75 mph into the unforgiving rock and scrub that lies beside the highway in the Nevada desert. Reichert is familiar with extreme situations: the 32-year-old aerospace engineer and athlete was co-designer and pilot of the first human-powered ornithopter—a craft that flies by flapping its wings—to soar continuously, and the first ever human-powered helicopter to become airborne.

Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 117.

The Champagne tasting was over, and things had gotten tense. On one side of the discussion were representatives of the Knot, the wedding-guide website hosting the tasting. On the other, polite but firm, was Philip Robertson, a 41-year-old Scotland native wearing a green blazer that announced his affiliation with the Guinness World Records company. At issue was the question of whether more than 515 humans had completed all three rounds of the tasting.

95-year-old Charles Eugster set a new record in the 200 metres at the indoor British Masters in London. Our athletics reporter Ed Harry adds commentary to the video, which saw the former dentist record a truly impressive time of 55.48 seconds.

Part spaceship, part racing car, part jet fighter, we go behind-the-scenes to discover how to reach 1,000mph on land.

The first time Nikhil Shukla adjudicated a Guinness world record, two million people turned up. Standing on a makeshift dais just before dawn in January 2012, Shukla gazed with bleary, incredulous eyes; he was 28, and he had never seen such a mammoth crowd in his life. Tolls on the national highway from the nearest city, Rajkot, had been suspended to accommodate the traffic, and Shukla had to trudge 20 minutes from his V.I.P. parking spot...

Exciting. Nail-biting. Jaw-dropping. These are not words you use to describe someone parallel parking a Fiat — unless you're watching stunt driver Alastair Moffatt do it.

A newly-discovered species with a bizarre body has been spotted deeper down than any other living fish.

What has a jet engine, a rocket booster and travels on a set of aluminum wheels? It's the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) and it has plans to hit the world land speed record at 1,000 mph. Made of titanium, carbon fiber and, like superman, is designed to go faster than a speeding bullet, the Bloodhound SSC has been painstakingly put together and tested over the better part of six years.

oday is Guinness World Records Day, and the record-keepin' company celebrated with a meeting between the world's tallest and shortest men in London. Turkey's Sultan Kosen is 8-foot-3, and Nepal's Chandra Bahadur Dangi is 1-foot-9.5. Kosen is a 31-year-old farmer, and Dangi is a 74-year-old who makes "placemats and head straps for villagers carrying heavy loads...

A Swiss-made pocket watch fetched a record $24 million, the most ever paid for a timepiece, at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva on Tuesday. The Henry Graves Jr. Supercomplication is named after a New York banker who competed with the car manufacturer James Ward Packard to commission the most elaborate watch possible in the early 20th century, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Nick Bennett from Leigh, Lancashire in the United Kingdom has set a new Guinness World Record for “Largest Collection of James Bond Memorabilia” with 12,463 pieces. In an interview with Guinness, Bennett admits that he has continued purchasing items for his collection after the official count was taken and estimates it to be around 16,000 items currently.