Silver Scorpio – International News | Spot News | Top News | Flash News | Live News

London, Aug 25 (ANI): A freediver has set a new world record by swimming through Australia’s longest underwater cave.

Mike Wells swam almost 400ft to create a new record.

And it took him two minutes and 40 seconds to master Fish Rock Cave, off New South Wales.

Wells, the first man to do this, said that it was [...]

London, Aug 22 (ANI): An attempt to set a new world record by setting off 110,000 fireworks in just 60 seconds flopped when the boat carrying them caught fire.

Around 175,000 people had gathered for the event in Bournemouth, Dorset, hoping a spectacular shower of rockets.

However, the display, scheduled to last for [...]

London, August 19 (ANI): A giant cupcake, standing 4ft tall and weighing 1,224 pounds, has entered the Guinness Book of Records.

The hefty cake beat the previous record of 151 lbs to become the world’s largest when unveiled in Detroit, Michigan, US.

The brainchild of American firm Gourmet Gift [...]

Usain Bolt | New World Record for Usain Bolt | Bolt obliterates 100-Metre World Record | Bolt Lowers 100-Meter Mark to 9.58 | Ath-Worlds | Jamaican Bolt Sets New 100m World Record | Bolt Sets Record To Win 100m Gold

To View Usain Bolt 100m 9.58 World Record (Berlin) Video Click Here
Usain St. Leo [...]

London, July 14 (ANI): A total of 582 artists have smashed a previous world record for the largest group of drummers playing the same beat at the same time.

Hundreds of drummers, as young as five and as old as 50, reached Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena to beat the previous record of 533 drummers, set in [...]

London, July 06 (ANI): A Scottish man slammed the previous world record of running 227ft with body set on fire by sprinting 259 ft.

Keith Malcolm, from Aberdeen, succeeded in his second attempt to break the record after he fell 40ft short of the record in his previous attempt in May.

The amateur stuntman, who now lives [...]

Chandigarh, July 5 (ANI): An adventure-loving trio from Chandigarh broke the Limca Book of World Record of fastest driving by covering the distance between Koteshwar in Gujarat and Tezu in Arunanchal Pradesh in 85 hours beating the earlier record of 119 hours.

The three record holders Bhalinder S Sangha, Harinder S Sidhu and Karanbir Bedi [...]

Washington, June 29 (ANI): Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz has created a new world record on US TV for snuggling in a hammock with 48 bunnies.

Host Jimmy Fallon had put 48 rabbits into a bed with the actress, which adjudicators ruled was a new record.

“I’m so excited. I’m snuggling [...]

London, May 30 (ANI): A London-based contortionist has created a new endurance world record by holding her entire bodyweight on her mouth in an arduous backbend.

Twenty-eight-year-old Iona Luvsandorj, a resident of West Hampstead, held a pose called the “Marinelli bend”-in which the whole body is supported by the mouth by gripping onto a short post [...]

London, May 28 (ANI): More than 3,000 students from Swansea University in Wales, UK, will paint themselves blue, and don white gnome hats in a bid to set a new world record by staging the largest gathering of Smurfs.

And helping them do so is a company called Jokers’ Masquerade, which has supplied the students with [...]

London, May 28 (ANI): More than 3,000 students from Swansea University in Wales, UK, will paint themselves blue, and don white gnome hats in a bid to set a new world record for staging the largest gathering of Smurfs.

The attempt to smash [...]

London, May 19 (ANI): A Japanese engineer has created a new world record by managing to keep his paper airplane aloft for 27.9 seconds.

Takuo Toda, who is the chairman of Japan Origami Airplane Association, said that his achievement was merely the next step in his ambition of launching a paper plane from space.

Toda had performed [...]

Washington, May 15 (ANI): A French software called ‘MoGo TITAN’, which runs on the Dutch national supercomputer Huygens, has set a new world record by defeated two professional ‘Go’ players at the Taiwan Open 2009.

During the first two days of the event, MoGo TITAN has set two new world records by winning a 19×19 competition [...]

New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): A group of US school students have made a new world record by drumming for 27 hours and 23 seconds.

Students at Rock Hill High School in South Carolina began the drum roll at 5pm on May 8 and continued to play until around 8pm the [...]

Jorhat (Assam), Apr 12 (ANI): Anandita Dutta Tamuli, a resident of Jorhat in Assam, surpassed her own scorecard by rubbing two dozens of Ghost chillies also known as ‘Jolokias’ on her eyes in just one minute.

A team of observers of Channel 4, a British television channel, endorsed her feat, which she achieved at Jorhat.

Earlier, waiting [...]

London, April 7 (ANI): A German DJ has made a new world record after wrapping up his ‘morning’ show after a week.

Dominik Schollmayer, from Hit Radio Antenne in Hanover, central Germany, made the longest continuous radio show record with 169 hours of broadcast.

The 26-year-old, who was watched over by doctors throughout his attempt, beat previous [...]

London, March 24 (ANI): Pedro Olivia, a daredevil kayak enthusiast, has made a new world record by riding down a 127ft waterfall in Brazil.

According to a report in the Telegraph, Pedro hit speeds of 70mph in his freefall down the Salto [...]

London, Feb 18 (ANI): Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is just 64 minutes away from setting a new world record for consecutive clean sheets in top flight league football.

Abel Resino’s stint of 1,275 goalless minutes for Atletico Madrid was widely accepted as the best ever, a mark van der [...]