British explorer breaks 'Three Poles' record: newspaper
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A British explorer has broken the speed record for reaching the North and South Poles and the summit of Mount Everest, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Saturday.
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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.
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Robert Korzeniowski of Poland added to his record collection of gold medals in race walking with his unprecedented third consecutive Olympic victory Friday in the 50-kilometer walk.
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The broker breaks records with its third-quarter results.
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South African adventurer Mike Horn on Thursday became the first man to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle without motorized transport, completing a more than two-year solo odyssey.
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Frostbite and hundreds of miles of icy crevasses pose timeless dangers in a new international race to the South Pole nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat Britain's Robert Scott to reach it.
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FALMOUTH, England  - Britain's Ellen MacArthur  became the fastest person to sail solo round the world Monday,  completing her gruelling journey in just over 71 days and 14  hours and smashing the record set last year.
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Learn the real history behind the explorer's legendary voyage&#8212;and why people still debate whether the U.S. should celebrate the day he landed in the New World as a holiday.
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Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand continued her dominance of pursuit racing yesterday, breaking her world record to win the Olympic gold medal in the 3,000-meter pursuit.
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A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest.
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American adventurer Steve Fossett broke the speed record for airships in a flight with a German company's new-look Zeppelin, the manufacturer said on Wednesday.
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Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur's was powering ahead in her bid to set a new solo round-the-world record as she navigated 715 miles off the southwest tip of Australia.
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British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur set sail in an attempt to set a new solo round-the-world record.
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Science & environment: The most successful revival of a British bird species notches up another two records.
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Britain is preparing to claim tens of thousands of square miles of Atlantic seabed around some of the country's remote island possessions, a newspaper reported Saturday, including areas around the Falkland Islands.
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A reporter for a British newspaper breached security at a royal residence in Scotland, police said. Les Snowdon, Scotland editor for The Sunday Times, said Friday that the reporter
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A former British army officer from the New Forest becomes the fastest man to complete the Three Poles Challenge.