Surfers crowd wave for world record
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Surfers around the world may complain about crowded conditions, but for dozens of South Africa wave riders it was the more the merrier as they lined up to break a world record by riding a single wave.
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Police caught nearly 1,200 people trying to reach the Canary Islands in overcrowded boats that left from the west African nation of Mauritania, setting a record for a weekend, officials said Sunday.
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Indianapolis - Olympic champion Aaron Peirsol broke his own 200-metre backstroke world record and helped the Americans set a 4x100 medley relay world mark on Monday at the World Short Course Swim Championships.
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Wide array of performers play to 68,000 crowd.
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At least 124,000 people have been confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami disaster as the effort to deliver relief supplies to the millions affected by the giant wave gathers pace.
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Saif Saeed Shaheen of Qatar shattered  the world steeplechase record at the Golden League meeting on  Friday to ease the disappointment of being banned from the  Olympics by his former federation Kenya.
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It now seems clear that nearly 27,000 people have died in the tsunami waves that hit coastlines in South and South East Asia on Sunday morning.
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The Live Earth event on Saturday is set to reach millions more people than previous global productions with its reach boosted by the fast-growing power of Web video sharing and social networks.
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Thousands of people dressed as Santa Claus took part in the English city of Liverpool's annual &quot;Santa Dash&quot;, setting a new world record in the process, organisers of the event said.
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* With star swimmer Michael Phelps watching from the stands after giving his spot to teammate Ian Crocker, the United States won gold in the men&#39;s 400-meter medley relay in a world-record time of 3:30.
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A series of unusually quick times in the men&#39;s 100 metres heats have sparked expectations of a possible world record in Sunday&#39;s Olympic final.
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Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and steeplechaser Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar set world records at the Van Damme Memorial meet yesterday in Brussels, Belgium.
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Australia's Jade Edmistone broke the short-course world record in the 50-meter breaststroke Sunday, one night after she equaled the mark.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an unprecedented world response to what is an unprecedented wave disaster in the Indian Ocean.
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Kenyan-born Saif Saaeed Shaheen - now representing Qatar - smashed the world 3,000 metres steeplechase record in Friday night&#39;s IAAF Golden League meeting in Brussels.
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People around the world are coming together to celebrate the world wide web and its impact on people.
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LONDON : The global authority of record-breaking accomplishment, The Guinness Book of Records, celebrated Friday 50 years logging the poles of human achievement.