Gretchen Walsh now holds the world records in the 50m free and the 100m butterfly.

The world record in the women's 50-meter freestyle still belongs to a former University of Virginia swimmer. It's just a ...

A boy from El Paso has earned a Kids World Record for the most stopwatch laps in one minute. Leonardo, the record holder, ...

Kate Douglass' reign as world-record holder in the 50-meter freestyle lasted all of nine days. American Gretchen Walsh -- Douglass' training partner -- set a new world record in the event Sunday, ...

Gretchen Walsh broke the women's 50 metres freestyle world record on Sunday at the Sette Colli International Trophy in Rome, ...

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 ...

As the world's de facto record adjudicator, Guinness World Records keeps tabs on all manner of weird and wonderful feats. Toyota's humanoid robot which happens to be really good at basketball is a ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse.

The planet recorded its hottest day ever Sunday, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, as an unrelenting string of heat waves continue to topple daily record high ...

Lionel Messi continues to rewrite the record books with Argentina at the 2026 World Cup. He's not just top goal-scorer.

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 ...