World champ of world records set for 237th feat!

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A saucy pole dancing champ was left facing disappointment after she was beaten by a man in a bid to become the UK's top performer. Brunette Aileen Daniel, 26, who won the title three years ago, was gutted after pole dancing judges announced hairdresser Paul McGill, 38, as the new Scottish champion.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - A restaurant in the U.S. has unveiled the world's biggest burger, weighing in at more than 13 stone.

August 27th, 2009 LONDON - A 17-year-old Briton has become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo with assistance. According to his team, Mike Perham raced past the finishing line between Lizard Point and Ushant, France, in his 50ft yacht Totallymoney.com at 9.47 and 30 seconds on Thursday.

August 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese woman, who is in her early 50s, has made plans to pull a plane using just her pigtail, after she used it to pull five cars, with a man sitting inside each, for a distance of 50 meters along a road. Zhang Tingting, a native of Henan province, performed the feat on August 23 in Tongzhou district, Beijing, reports the China Daily.

August 4th, 2009 LONDON - An Indian-origin man named Guinness Rishi has planned to get tattoos of every national flag on the planet over his entire body, in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. The 67-year-old man is considering covering himself in 220 different banners in his quest to become a walking global flag-pole.

August 1st, 2009 LONDON - An elite team of guinea pigs has entered the Guinness Book of World Records by setting two new records. Two-year-old Flash has won the world record for the fastest run by a guinea pig by conquering the 10metre red carpet track in 8.81 seconds.

June 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A two-year-old Chinese boy is the world's youngest smoker. And it was Tong Liangliang's dad who taught him how to spark up between tantrums and milky vomits.

June 19th, 2009 British WWI vet is now world's oldest manLONDON — Guinness World Records says 113-year-old British World War I veteran Henry Allingham is now the world's oldest man. The previous holder of the title, Tomoji Tanabe, died in his sleep in southern Japan earlier Friday.

June 19th, 2009 British WW1 vet becomes world's oldest man LONDON — Guinness World Records said Friday that 113-year-old British World War I veteran Henry Allingham has become the world's oldest man. The previous holder of the title, Tomoji Tanabe, died in his sleep in southern Japan earlier Friday at the age of 113.

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 1st, 2009 ABU DHABI - A Kuwaiti citizen has applied to the Guinness World Records for his collection of over 5,000 perfume bottles to be recognised as a world record, the Kuna news agency said Monday. An astronomer by profession, Adel Al-Sadoun started collecting perfume bottles some 15 years ago, as he was charmed by the unique design created by perfume companies for their fragrances.

May 28th, 2009 NEW YORK - A Kentucky man who keeps suing people is suing the Guinness Book of World Records for naming him the world's most litigious man. It is believed that Riches has filed over 4,000 lawsuits around the world, reports Britain's Metro newspaper, against people and entities as varied as George W.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - 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.

May 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest militarized territorial dispute in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records used the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) world fact book to name the Kashmir issue, the longest dispute between two countries, The Daily Times reports.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - British singer Alesha Dixon is all set to make a world record of the largest number of backing dancers in a performance. The 2007 Strictly Come Dancing winner will be singing her new track 'Let's Get Excited' on Sky1's Guinness World Records Smashed event, reports The Sun.