The Guinness Book of World Records had a problem: It made its money selling books, but book sales aren't what they used to be. So Guinness changed what it was selling, and who they were selling it to.
Jake Freed is attempting a world record for longest distance ever traveled on a skateboard. He's already traveled 1,400 miles, and has more than 5,000 to go.
A 65-year-old Russian adventurer has piloted a balloon around the world solo and non-stop in 11 days, braving air too thin to breath, below-freezing temperatures, storms and barely any sleep.
For the past eight days, Fedor Konyukhov has had a tiny amount of sleep in an open gondola hurtling at high speeds through below-freezing air that is too thin to breathe. And he has four more to go.
Fourteen-year-old Lucas Etter unmixed a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in 4.904 seconds, setting a world record and becoming the first person to break the 5-second mark for solving the puzzle.
Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge shrugged off the shoe failure that potentially cost him the world record, saying his pair of Nike running shoes are "actually very good."