Walter Breuning learned to read by kerosene lantern, remembers his grandfather telling him about fighting in the Civil War, and cast his first presidential ballot for Woodrow Wilson. ...more

July 21, 2009

Guinness World Records said Friday that 113-year-old British World War I veteran Henry Allingham has become the world's oldest man. ...more

June 20, 2009

He was born Ben Garcia, but he's better known as Ben Hvar - or Otok Ben-Hvar. ...more

March 21, 2009

He was born Ben Garcia, but he's better known as Ben Hvar or Otok Ben-Hvar or "Mr. Inspiration" or, on special occasions, "His Majesty King Kuku." ...more

March 21, 2009

Brain cancer isn't the only thing Bob Gibbs and his family want to defeat. ...more

March 18, 2009

The movie camera collection of retired postman Dimitris Pistiolas recently made it into the Guinness World Records - for the eighth time. ...more

January 18, 2009

Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115. ...more

November 27, 2008

High-wire daredevil Nik Wallenda took a bike ride Wednesday 135 feet above Newark without a net. ...more

October 16, 2008

Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square. ...more

October 8, 2008

A woman who grew to be 7 feet 7 inches tall and was recognized as the world's tallest female died Wednesday. She was 53. ...more

August 14, 2008