Fancy yourself a puzzle-lover? Then you’ll like this – Dubai is going down in the record books for constructing the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle.
Horses come in different shapes and sizes. When these two record-holding horses came together for the first time, the cameras were waiting.
The BBC sat down with Cape Town’s very own Fredie Blom, who shared the story of his life, and the fame that comes with his age.
Uncork the champagne bottles again! Cape Town might have the oldest living man, but up in Ventersdorp, they have the world’s oldest living person.
Uncork the champagne bottles, because the oldest man in the world may have been found living right here in Cape Town.
Japan just opened its tallest tourist attraction yet, the much-anticipated 634 metre tall Skytree tower in Tokyo. It took four years to build, cost 65 million Yen to make, is about twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, just beats out the 600m tall Canton Tower in China, and even survived the devastating earthquakes that rocked Japan about a year ago, barely denting its construction schedule.
Hoo, boy. Somebody at Guinness had best be working on some serious back-pedaling. Rebecca Lanier just turned 119 years old, which should make her the oldest person now living. As the daughter of former slaves, however, she doesn’t have the right documentation, and therefore doesn’t count.