The world's tallest and shortest men came face to shin on Thursday to celebrate the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day, as people around the globe set new benchmarks.
Google has taken the battle against illegal fishing online, with the company unveiling a tool in Australia on Friday that harnesses satellite data to track thousands of boats in real time.
A composer who claims to be the world's fastest pianist says tickling the ivories quicker than the human ear can hear is a surefire route to nirvana.
Bikes with alligator-skin saddles, frames adorned with 24-carat-gold leaf, or just two wheels designed to your very own personal specifications - from Paris to Tokyo, via Milan, designer and customized bicycles costing thousands of dollars are the latest must-have luxury item coveted by urban elites in search of "pedal chic".
Under a crushing financial strain, Kumar Budathoki sold one of his kidneys to organ traffickers for $5,000, a sum he hoped would help set him up for a lifetime free of money problems.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani arrived for a two-day visit to neighboring Pakistan on Friday, seeking to improve ties crucial to his hopes of reviving peace talks with the Taliban as US troops end their 13-year war.
Anil Swarup is just the kind of man Prime Minister Narendra Modi is relying on to fix India - a high-flying civil servant with a taste for complex policy and swift decisions.
The mayor of the G20 host city "welcomed the world" on Friday and said Brisbane was ready to hold the biggest event in its history.
Choe Ryong-hae, a senior official of the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is to visit Russia as a special envoy of DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un, the Korean Central News Agency said on Friday.
A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a source in the US federal government with direct knowledge of the case.
Tension is growing in Ferguson, Missouri, in the runup to the announcement of a grand jury decision over whether to charge the officer responsible for the shooting of unarmed black man Michael Brown, 18.
British Prime Minister David Cameron outlined plans on Friday to seize passports from British jihadists and stop them returning from fighting overseas, while proposing landing bans on airlines that fail to comply with London's no-fly lists.
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