The music publishing company that has been collecting royalties on the song Happy Birthday To You for years does not hold a valid copyright on the lyrics to the tune that is one of the mostly widely sung in the world, a US judge has ruled.

England: Corn-on-the-cob-consuming contestants have failed to break the sweetcorn-eating world record despite their “valiant efforts” in the UK championships.

The world’s oldest man, a retired educator from Japan, has died at the age of 112.

Revellers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the skyscrapers of Dubai and New York's Times Square to welcome the new year.

Mazda has unveiled a new version of its iconic MX-5 Miata sports car for the first time in nine years, counting on the model to help sustain rising sales.

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Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez, a former musician and coal miner certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, has died at 112.

A Chinese government news portal has claimed that a woman in China’s remote far west is 127 years old, making her the oldest person ever to have lived — but experts raised questions over the supposed record.

He might look pretty harmless, but Ali Bahçetepe of Turkey can break over 1,000 concrete blocks. With his bare hands.

Here's Ruairi Quinn and a young fella dressed as a giant shamrock, as students at Blackrock College attempted today to break the world record for 'largest human shamrock'.

Two women, believed to be the world’s oldest and tallest, have died.

A woman listed as the world's oldest person has died in a Georgia nursing home at 116.

Home to the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, Nepal yesterday added another height-related superlative — of having the world’s shortest man.

Top hats and green waistcoats will be de rigueur in the West Cork town of Bandon and Donegal town of Glenties this St Patrick’s Day, as hundreds of “leprechauns” arrive to break the world record for a gathering of the Little People.

A MONSTER 21-foot (6.4-metre) crocodile — believed to be the biggest ever captured in the world — has been trapped in the southern Philippines after a spate of fatal attacks.

CHINA has opened the world’s longest cross-sea bridge.

China has opened the world’s longest cross-sea bridge.

A poor Filipino blacksmith’s son who stands less than two feet (60 centimetres) tall was declared the world’s shortest man by Guinness World Records on his 18th birthday today, sparking a celebration in his hometown

Scuba divers in Germany have broken a world record after playing a card game underwater for 36 hours.

A Filipino teenager is set to become the world's smallest man when he turns 18 this summer.

A MOTHER in Burma says her baby girl’s 12 fingers and 14 toes have been no disadvantage — and she’s now grasping for a Guinness World Record.

'Coronation Street' landed a pair of world records today as it prepares to mark its 50th birthday.

EDWARD Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male.

ELVIS PRESLEY, the King of bacon, banana and peanut butter sandwiches, didn’t die of a heart condition. He succumbed, on the toilet, to chronic constipation.

THE world’s official shortest man, He Pingping, has died at the age of 21, a Guinness World Records spokesman said yesterday.

A VIETNAMESE man who died this week and whose hair was so long it resembled a boa constrictor, may have had the world’s longest mane.

FOR many lonely hearts, finding love is a tall order — particularly if you measure 8ft 1in.

GREAT WAR veteran Henry Allingham has become the world’s oldest man following the death of the previous holder of the title in Japan, Guinness World Records said.

A 101-year-old London man barred from taking the title of the world's oldest marathon runner due to a lack evidence verifying his age has said he has been granted a passport.

He spent 44 days suspended from a glass box by the Thames and was buried alive for a week in a see-through coffin in New York.

A Hong Kong property tycoon and his wife have reportedly paid around €131,200 for a huge Italian white truffle, which may be the most expensive purchased.

MARIA Esther de Capovilla, the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died in Ecuador aged 116.

Maria Esther de Capovilla, the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died in Ecuador aged 116, her granddaughter said.

Almost two million people are expected to flock to a free Rolling Stones concert on Rio’s Copacabana beach.

Joss Stone, Ms Dynamite and Lemar helped set a new singing record for the largest number of children singing simultaneously today.

A TIRED but triumphant airline captain yesterday flew into the record books by taking command of the world’s longest-ever non-stop commercial plane flight.

A MONGOLIAN has broken the record for the world’s tallest living man, lurching in at a towering 7ft 8.95ins, or 2m 36.1cm.

Queen have overtaken the Beatles to become the most successful albums act in UK chart history.

UK civil engineering group Balfour Beatty has started work on a £400m (€574.2m) contract to build the world’s biggest shopping centre, it said today.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that Guinness World Records has certified Toshiba’s 0.85-inch hard disk drive (HDD) as the smallest HDD in the world and will feature it in the 2005 edition, scheduled to be on sale in September 2004.