Veteran Coronation Street star Bill Roache has made his first appearance in court accused of raping a 15-year-old girl.

A 98-year-old woman has become the world's oldest yoga teacher.

As an active 77-year-old, great-grandmother Edith Wilma Connor enjoys doing step aerobics with her great-granddaughter.

Pilloried by neighbours, laughed at in freakshows, and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse.

TEENAGE Dutch sailor Laura Dekker is nearing the finish of her solo sailing trip around the world almost the same way she began it — in good spirits, despite endless debate about the terms under which she is allowed to be at sea.

COMING out weighing more than 16lb, JaMichael Brown may have set the record for the biggest baby ever born in Texas.

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

A 114-year-old Brazilian woman is the world’s oldest living human, Guinness World ~Records said.

Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance, dreams of owning a car – preferably a Mercedes – and wants to see the world.

Tom Jones is on course to become the oldest male musician to have a UK number one album, with his record 'Praise And Blame' leading the way in midweek sales.

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

A BRITISH man yesterday claimed a new world record for keeping a football in the air, after sailing past the previous record of 19 hours and 30 minutes in London.

Paul McCartney has set a new world record after selling out all 4,000 seats for his upcoming gig at Las Vegas's Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in an astonishing seven seconds.

The world’s oldest person has dies in a nursing home in Japan at the age of 114, an official said today.

Screams and cheers greeted the Rolling Stones as they pulled up to their beach-front hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, today in a huge police motorcade, and die-hard fans were already staking out spots before an enormous stage on Copacabana Beach, where up to two million people were expected to attend the band’s free concert tomorrow night.

A 67-year-old Romanian woman gave birth today to a baby girl, hospital officials said. The child’s twin sister was stillborn, they said.