Wanyonyi set the seventh world record in Monaco since 2015 on Friday Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi has broken the 1,000m world record, which had stood for nearly 27 years, with a 2:11.83s run at the Monaco Diamond League.

With her world record in the 200 butterfly, Summer McIntosh is the first swimmer since Sarah Sjostrom to simultaneously own four world marks.

Summer McIntosh broke the 200m butterfly world record, the last women's record from the super-suit era.

The pop star's 12-show run at Wembley is now the the longest residency by a musician at the famed London stadium

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. It grieved me to eventually learn that he was a fiction ...

The singer and his team gathered for the certificate presentation after Saturday's (July 4) historic 12th show.

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 Guinness World Record holder, alongside the man who ...

Sarah Sjöström of Sweden, who set the 50-meter butterfly mark in July 2014, now holds the oldest world record in women’s swimming. Four men’s world records still date to the 2008-2009 super suit era, the oldest being Michael Phelps and the U.S. men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay team’s mark at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Nagpur teenager Hiten Dharpure has entered the Guinness World Records by creating the world's smallest fully functional robotic arm, with future plans to support precision healthcare.