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Guinness World Records says Hawaii's Garrett McNamara, 44, rode the biggest wave ever with a 78-footer off the coast of Portugal.

One diaper at a time, a world-record was changed as parents gathered at Sweet Cheeks Diaper Company to take part in the second annual Great Cloth Diaper Company on Saturday.

Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes - and lots of doubts about his future. Now, 12 years after Marty Stevens rescued him from being put to sleep because of his condition, the exotic blue-eyed rag doll cat is not only thriving but has made it into the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest surviving member of a group known as Janus cats, named for a Roman god with two faces.

A Brazilian woman ranked by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person died Tuesday at the age of 114.

Guinness World Records declares a teenager from the Philippines, Junrey Balawing, the world's shortest man on his 18th birthday.

Charlie Sheen may or may not be “winning,” in life, but he has won a rare honor: he has set a new Guinness World Record for fastest person to reach 1 million followers on Twitter.

Kraft's Oreo brand tries to set the Guinness record for Facebook likes.

586. 2,850. 5,400. 789,349. These are all world-record numbers. But they aren't weights, distances or speeds. They are achievements in video gaming.

Alik Gershon from Israel took the Guinness record for simultaneous chess games from the Jewish state's arch-foe Iran today after a marathon 19-hour match against 523 players.

A minuscule cow with a taste for contemporary music has been named the world's smallest by the Guinness World Records book.