Indians are celebrating the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million clay oil lamps at dusk on the banks of the river Saryu in a city they believe to be the birthplace of the deity Lord Ram.

An 89-year-old comedian is recovering after being randomly punched and knocked to the ground while waiting to cross a street in New York earlier this month.

A chef in Ghana has been preparing banku and other regional dishes on live TV since New Year’s Day as she tries to break a world record for marathon cooking.

The blonds are back.

From broken down to a record-breaking ride, the world’s longest car lives in Central Florida.

The strange and unusual museum is looking to achieve a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest hair ball.

There’s a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of diamonds on a single ring: it’s 12,638. It breaks the previous record by nearly 5,000 diamonds. Harshit Bansal, founder of Renani Jewels in Meerut, India, set the new record with this impressive design on Dec. 21. Guinness World Records says all the diamonds are conflict-free. Two years later, his company completed the ring design.