world records

LOS ANGELES—Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died at his home ...

Tony Hawk has completed yet another 900, this time at the unbelievable age of 48. "17 years to the day ...

In 2016, a team of engineers and adventurers will travel to the South African desert and attempt to ...

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian daredevil, who was to skydive out of a balloon 23 miles above New Mexico, ...

A woman who claimed to be the world’s oldest died in the Georgian village of Sachino, it was ...

A 97-year-old message in a glass bottle was found by a fisherman near the Scottish island of Shetland, ...

German solar energy production reached a world record of more than 20 gigawatts of output, according to an ...

The well-known prince of the Uighur art of wire-walking, Adili Wushouer, broke the world record for tightrope walking ...

Ugihur Samit Ijon broke the world record for completing the steepest long-distance dawaz, or tightrope walking.