Jewish youth group sets new world record for custard pie fight

September 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The Aussies have managed to enter the Guinness Book of World Record, after more than 300 people, including university students, danced in robotic unison. The group broke the previous world record set by 276 people dancing like robots, when they danced on a lawn at the University of Melbourne, reports the Australian.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - Britons have an amusing way of getting injured - eating biscuits on coffee or tea breaks. According to a survey conducted by Mindlab International, on commission by Rocky, a chocolate biscuit bar, more than half of Britons have been injured while eating biscuits during a tea or coffee break.

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - 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.

August 14th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - As the race for Malaysian Indian Congress Youth chief intensifies, a hate text campaign against the main contenders for the post through text messages is on. Mobile phones of 527 delegates were reportedly flooded with short messages questioning the eligibility of the main candidate.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - A British schoolgirl aged 13 has set a new water-skiing world record after leaping almost 100 ft. Charlotte Wharton, from Wrestlingworth, Northants, broke the previous 20-year-old for under-14s of 88 ft by 10 ft, soaring the equivalent of three double-decker buses.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - 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.

June 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - A group of world-record buffs have created a new online database that allows users to dream up their own outlandish categories, and post videos of their feats. The Universal Record Database created by Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson gives everyone the chance to discover the "world record holder in them".

June 6th, 2009 BERLIN - A German man has set a new record in speed-kissing, after smooching 111 women in 60 seconds outside a Berlin disco late Friday. Michael Basting, 31, secured an entry in the Guinness Book of Records after lining up the ladies on the pavement for a quick peck on the cheek.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - 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 that is held between the gums-for 33 seconds, beating the existing world record by 11 seconds.

May 18th, 2009 LONDON - Usain Bolt stormed to a world's best of 14.35 seconds over 150 meters on the streets of Manchester last night. Bolt, the reigning world record holder at 100m and 200m, left the rest of the field - including British sprinter Marlon Devonish comfortably behind, The Sun reports.he Olympic champion now insists he can lower his own 100m world mark of 9.69 seconds - set in Beijing last summer - to 9.4sec.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 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 next day.

April 19th, 2009 LONDON - A 13-year-old Brit boy has entered record books after slam-dunking a basketball from seven metres away. Gymnast Jordan Ramos, from Sheffield, made it to the Guinness Book of World Record with a seven-metre jump - shattering the previous record of 6.3 metres, reports News of the World.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - The Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has set a new world record after selling out all 4,000 seats for his upcoming gig at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in seven seconds. Tickets for the former Beatle's April 19 concert at the resort's The New Joint venue went on sale Feb 14 and newly-released statistics suggest the concert was the hottest ticket around, selling at a rate of nearly 600 seats a second, reports contactmusic.com.

February 12th, 2009 LONDON - The fighting in Gaza has led to an 'unprecedented' surge in attacks on Jews in Britain, a report by a Jewish security group said Friday. The Community Security Trust (CST), a charity which works to safeguard the Jewish community in Britain, said 541 incidents were recorded last year.

January 28th, 2009 LONDON - A passenger who wrote a witty letter complaining about the Indian meal on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Mumbai has been invited by the airline's boss Richard Branson to help select food and wines for future Virgin flights. 'Look at this Richard.