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A former British soldier set a new downhill speed skiing record by a blind person of 162.45 kilometres per hour (100.94 mph). Kevin Alderton set the record at Les Arcs on what is known as the Flying Kilometre. He was guided on the slope through radio speakers in his helmet by coach Norman Clarke. Afterwards, Alderton said the sensation had been am...

An Indian man from the north-western desert state of Rajasthan is inching his way to a hair-raising record as the owner of world's longest moustache measuring nearly four metres (12 feet). Ram Singh Chauhan, a 54-year-old Rajasthan state tourism official is a major attraction with tourists who come to city known for its sand dunes, royal palaces an...

He beat 4,000 rivals over an horrific two-mile obstable course in the Tough Guy race in Staffordshire, United Kingdom, designed by a former Grenadier Guardsman near the village of Old Perton. The annual race starts in the village with an eight-mile run, before competitors have to wade through energy-sapping mud and plunge into ice-cold water to rea...

Captive-born lion cub Samira is beating the odds to survive in the most unconventional way. Just 4 days after being born, she sustained a tragic injury when her mother accidentally bit through the tendons of her leg while trying to carry her. Her mother, Saffi, rejected the cub and attempted to bury her in the corner of the enclosure. Samira's...

Twelve competitors in cars and caravans lined up at the start at a track in Bovingdon in England for the race, which quickly becomes a destruction derby as the drivers seek to smash away the unwieldy caravans that slow them down. The old caravans have already been turned into a shell as everything inside them is hacked out before the race. Julian B...

Tyre manufacturing company has come to the rescue of Fuji the dolphin who was stricken by a mysterious life threatening illness and lost her fin. She caught a disease that begun gradually rotting her tail and her tail had to be amputated to save her life. For awhile the now 37-year old Fuji survived without a fin, but her lack of exercise and weigh...

You don't have to be conkers but it helps... Conker players gathered in the tiny village of Ashton to compete in the 33rd annual all-comers contest. A conker is the hard shelled fruit of the horse chestnut tree, a large brown shiny nut, which is threaded onto a string and then swung to hit an opponent's conker. The last conker left on the string is...

A race with a bang as drivers challenge for honours at the British caravan Grand Prix. Old cars and caravans were transformed into racing machines as 20 competitors gathered in Bovingdon, England for the annual caravan easter race. 20 cars and caravan combinations battled their way around the 300 metre tarmac circuit. The race is 10 laps and those ...

The grueling Monaraca Paragliding Open has started in Mexico - a six-day, non-stop even in which competitors will face daily flights of over 55 kilometres (34 miles). This is the Valle de Bravo - a two-hour drive out of Mexico and a world class paragliding mecca.This is the competition's fourth year running, and this time there is some paragliding ...

With 34 teams of competitors, all kitted out in fancy dress, home-made soapbox race cars and a half-mile race track, the Hoar Cross Downhill race proved a hit with the audiences. The event was organised to raise money for charity, and perhaps to air the odd fancy dress costume in front of the village. The rules dictate that the cars must be home-ma...

Wild sea lions may not care much about their fishy breath, but the French National Sea Experience Centre does - their captive sea lions have now been introduced to the joys of clean teeth and fresh breath. Keepers clean the captive sea lions' teeth daily with a traditional tooth brush and toothpaste, but it's taken some getting used to. "Sea lioins...

New Yorkers brought forth their inner child with vengeance in a massive public pillow fight in the heart of the city. Hundreds gathered to take part, pounding each other with soft pillows and enveloped by a cloud of fluffy feathers shining in the sun. When the whistle blew to signal the beginning of the pillow fight, the participants immediately be...

Every two years, the small Australian town of Chinchilla pays tribute to its melon harvest by holding the Chinchilla Melon Festival where people not only eat, but engage in some of the wackiest activities using watermelons, like headbutting. This year, 29-year-old local melon picker John Allwood smashed his way into the Guinness Book of World Recor...

Combine extreme sports with the humdrum housework activity of ironing, and what have you got? Extreme ironing, of course! Already popular in Europe, a group of British extreme ironing enthusiasts are now pressing their case to bring the 'sport' to America. The trio, Phil Shaw (aka Steam), Matthew Patrick (aka Starch) and Penny Wilkinson (aka Short ...

Tony Hughes won the 28th International Birdman of Bognor competition with a hang-glider flight of 84.4 metres. Hughes was attempting to reach a distance of 100 metres to win a jackpot prize of 25,000 pounds.While many of the birdmen were classified as fun jumpers, wearing fancy dress costumes with no aerodynamic potential at all, there were a small...

Hundreds of people gathered in central London to mark the festive season and spread Christmas cheer in the name of charity. Approximately 120 contestants took part in the 26th Great Christmas Pudding Race in Covent Garden to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Teams in fancy dress battled against each other whilst trying to balance a traditional Ch...

Competitors from across the UK and as far as New Zealand gathered in the New Forest in England for the World 25 Metre Pole Climbing Championship. Pole climbing is still a relatively new sport but it has its own association and rules. Each competitor wears a harness and B-lay rope to ensure they don't fall to the ground if they slip during their asc...

France's 'Spiderman' Alain Robert wowed spectators as he took on a 185-metre skyscraper in Abu Dhabi, the tallest in the city. The audience cringed and cheered in fear and amazement as Robert climbed the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority building without any safety mechanisms in place. Relying solely on his hands, feet and determination, he made his w...

43 cars and 25 laps later, it looks like one big crash site - it's the Banger Racing Championships. It's all bang and crash and that's what people come for. Open to unlimited over 1800cc bangers, the championships draw the biggest names from the banger racing world to compete for the prestigious title. The excitement mounted as the 43 qualifying en...

Two creative Czech entrepreneurs have successfully set up a business transforming old VW wrecks into unique open aired, welded dream machines. In their car service workshop, in the village of Kuri near Prague, Jaroslav and Marek have produced the Orion Beetle through designing stars out of 800 metres of metal tubes, and welding it together as the c...

They are white, they are fluffy and there are three of them - a set of white tiger triplets are the latest residents at Argentina's Buenos Aires Zoo. The cubs are only 40 days old, but already they act like they are all king of the jungle. Their unusual colour comes from a recessive gene. All white tigers must inherit the white gene from both thei...

Brave runners risked their necks as they chased a rolling cheese down a hill in a traditional contest. The Cheese Rolling at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, is an old custom thought to be part of an old fertility rite celebrating Spring and Summer. The object is to catch the rolling cheese but as it travels as fast as a car the prize ...

A London race course looked like the training track for Hollywood stunt scenes as it was hosting the UK's Roll Over Championships. With the ramp and distance markers in place, the banger racing drivers were ready to prove their worth to a crowd of spectators. The Ramp is quite small and not an easy target to hit when accelerating from a bend. In fa...

Forget McLarens and Ferraris - meet the Reliant Robin races! The three-wheeled vehicles made of fibre glass had their hayday in the 60s, but every year race enthusiasts gather for the World Championship Finals. With plenty of crashes, spins and rolling over of vehicles, one race certainly offers more carnage than an entire season in Formula One.Sam...

A rare white tiger baby is being brought up by foster parents Hamid and Regina Hamza in Hodenhagen in Germany. The white tiger baby Paul is only three weeks old, but is already quite a handful for a young cat."You can compare it to a human baby, your entire day revolves around this small animal. It has to be bottle-fed every two hours, it has to be...

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Ten contenders met at Madison Square Garden to see who could swallow the most date nut bread and cream cheese sandwiches in the Date Nut Bread-Eating World Championships. The competitors were allowed to soak the sandwiches for five seconds in a liquid of their choice before shovelling them into their mouths.The winner, Patrick Bertoletti, chewed aw...

A dog named Lili has saved the lives of two newborn Bengal tigers in Brazil who were rejected by their mother after they were born albino. The mongrel Lili, who's owner answered an appeal for a foster parent, is now on the road with the circus as the crew travels around Brazil. Circus owner Jonas Santos said the mother tiger bore three cubs, but a...

The Rocketbelt may be the least conventional way to fly, and the ride is a short one, but a passionate group of test-pilots, builders and enthusiasts from around the world gathered for the First International Rocketbelt Convention at Niagra Falls. Rocketbelt enthusiasts are a select crowd - despite the invention's initial popularity, it never took ...

Colin Farley of Essex is either very brave or completely mad and now has the title to prove it as winner of the self-styled Figure of 8 Banger Championship of the World.Luck played a part too when Farley and 29 other drivers set off for 15 laps of the figure of 8 track, crossing in the centre at speed and hoping to make it unscathed. There were no ...

A school for Santas? In New York City, Santa-wannabes are put through their paces (and their ho-ho-ho's) to prove they've got what it takes to put the magic into Christmas. How to wear the beard and wig, position the hefty padding, ring the bell and most importantly, how to deal with the public are all things taught at the Volunteers of America "sa...

The bizarre and colourful annual 'Grand National' race for football club mascots at Huntingdon racecourse saw runners in furry costumes sprint a 200 metre course while leaping over fences. A total of 63 mascots lined up for the event. The seventh running of the race was also open to charity mascots and it was a red squirrel named Scoop6, after a na...

Israeli dog owners and their belowed animals last week walked along the catwalk in a dog look-alike contest. The couples were out to show judges who most closely resembled their four-legged friend. Judges examined the combination of style and appearance of ten entires, from winkled to long-faced features on both parts. The winning couple received d...

The 12-hour lawn-mower in Pulborough, West Sussex, saw 40 teams battled through the night to claim top honours in the most prestigious event of the lawn mower racing calendar in England. Competitors were divided in three different classes and each team had three drivers swapping periodically. For obvious safety reasons, all the blades were removed ...

Thousands of backpackers and sun-worshippers made their annual Christmas Day pilgrimage to Sydney's most famous summer playground, Bondi Beach to enjoy Christmas Day. Wearing Santa hats and playing soccer among sun bathers, everyone was pleased to be out in the sun. Usually seen in the more traditional red clothing suited for world travels, Bondi B...

Freezing temperatures in South Korea didn't stop dozens from participating in a swimming contest held in a frozen river. About 70 contestants wearing swimming suits took part in the "Ice Man Contest", which was held at the Heockchun River flowing across Yangpyong, north of Seoul. To win the Ice Man title, a contestant would have to complete a 15-me...

For most people, hitting a golf ball with any degree of accuracy can be challenging, let alone sending it 200 metres yards using an umbrella. Welcome to trick shot golf! The 2nd 'World Trick Shot Championship' at Hanbury Manor in Hertfordshire brought together 11 of the top professionals from the USA , Canada, South Africa, Denmark, Netherlands Ger...

Man has beaten horse over a cross-country course for the first time in the event's 25 year history. Nearly 500 runners set off on a course of 22 miles (35 kms) from Llanwrtyd Wells and over the surrounding hills of mid-Wales. Fifteen minutes later nearly 50 horses and riders set off in pursuit. This year the first runner across the line was Huw Lob...

In a typical display of British eccentricity, thousands of people made their way to Maldon on the East coast of England on New Years Eve for the town's annual mud race - a cross between a fun run and an assault course from hell. One hundred and eighty runners braved the elements to stampede across the Blackwater River waist deep in thick black mud....

One of the biggest threats to Colombian drug traffickers - a drug-sniffing police dog named Agata - is under heightened security after receiving several death threats. She's had a price on her head since 2004 and a 24-hour guard monitors her food for poisoning. For a 5-year-old, she has made a lot of enemies. But none of this keeps Agata, a go...

Scientists from around the globe displayed their home-built robots at the unique cocktail robot convention Roboexotica in Vienna. They were vying for prizes in categories like mixing cocktails, serving drinks and snacks, bar conversation and smoking cigarettes and cigars. An audience favourite was Robomoji -- a cupboard size machine with rattling c...

If you can't afford to buy the real thing then why not knit one. That's what 22-year-old art student Lauren Porter did. For her university degree show, Lauren decided to knit a life-size Ferrari. Mainly modelled on an F355, it took her 10 months and 12 miles of yarn to put the Ferrari together. Lauren got friends and family to help knit approximate...

Thousands flocked to watch Rio de Janeiro's famous holiday tradition - the inauguration of the huge floating Christmas tree. The crowd cheered as the lights blazed and the fireworks emerged from the world's largest floating Christmas tree, a gigantic metal structure as tall as a 27-story tower block. The Christmas tree, first erected in 1996, const...

Dashing through the sea on a spotted moray eel, Santa Claus came to town at a Tokyo aquarium. Oh what fun it is to swim in a tank full of fish, eager for an early christmas gift - or so the visiting children seemed to think at the Sunshine International Aquarium in downtown Tokyo, when Santa Claus in full red attire appeared swimming behind the thi...