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.

A house cat in Farmington Hills has literally grown its way right into the record books.

The Glass Academy in Dearborn is trying to set a world record by creating a sculpture with 1,000 glass bubbles.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Guinness World Record for being the first female artist to have her first three chart entries landing the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, and also an author of a new children’s book.

Fresh Del Monte, a leading producer and distributor of fruits and vegetables, broke the world record for the World’s Largest Fruit Display in collaboration with Jewel-Osco.

A Guinness-certified bounce house is coming to Metro Detroit in mid-June.

A Guinness-certified bounce house is coming to Metro Detroit in mid-June.

A nonprofit working to improve the environment and Detroit community by planting trees has joined forces with NBC’s Today Show to set a new world record this Earth Day.

Not only was there already a Guinness World Record for the worlds largest Kamehameha, but these "Dragon Ball" fans just broke it at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con. The gesture is meant to emulate an attack move popular in the "Dragon Ball" series. A moment captured forever in history, Toei Animation, the studio behind "Dragon Ball," wrote on Twitter, confirming that 786 people were behind the efforts witnessed by a Guinness World Record judge. The "Dragon Ball" franchise began in the 1980s as a manga originating from Japan and continues to find worldwide success today. The previous world record had a reported 250 people coming together to do the Kamehameha.

Five thousand rockets were launched into the air Wednesday, not only to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing but also to set a Guinness World Record. Astronauts, NASA engineers and eager young campers witnessed the event organized by the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, a city dedicated to space exploration. Huntsville is the rocket city, Randall Robinson of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center told InsideEdition.com. The previous record was set in November 2018, when 4,231 model rockets were launched during a European Space Science Convention held in the Netherlands. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center said it wanted to hold its own rocket launching to encourage young scientists to follow their dreams.

The Queens of The Queen of The Ride hold the world's longest feather boa during the Guinness World Record with Madame Tussauds and Ripley's Believe It or Not! (CNN) - The Danish family behind Lego has partnered with Blackstone to take the owner of Madame Tussauds private. The deal values Merlin Entertainments at 4.7 billion ($6 billion). In addition to the wax museum Madame Tussauds, the company owns LegoLand theme parks and other attractions in 25 countries, including The London Eye. Yet in going private, Merlin Entertainments is returning to its roots.