Hamburger Eating Championship World Record

Joey Chestnut sets world record by eating 103 hamburgers in eight minutes

Not content with being the hot dog eating champion, Joey Chestnut is also the burger king.

Chestnut guzzled 103 hamburgers in just eight minutes to set a new record and win the Krystal Square Off IV World Hamburger Eating Championship.

The 23-year-old from San Jose, California, surpassed the previous world record of 97 Krystals held by Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, set at last year's Krystal Square Off.

His amazing feat was compared to Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile barrier.

Brad Wahl, vice president of marketing for The Krystal Company, said: 'We never thought we'd see someone anywhere near, let alone past the century mark when we started the Krystal Square Off in 2004.

'But like when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier more than 50 years ago, Joey Chestnut has set a new benchmark today for all moving forward.'

Kobayashi, who won all three previous Krystal Hamburger Eating Championships, did not compete this year because of lingering jaw pain from having a wisdom tooth extracted in June.

The 29-year-old Kobayashi received chiropractic treatment for a sore jaw before losing his championship in the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest at Coney Island in New York.

Besides beating 12 other contestants and setting a new record Sunday, Chestnut also took home $10,000 (£4,800.

Rubik's Cube Solved blindfolded

Cube got to be joking! Rubik's Cube solved blindfolded

If you thought just completing a Rubik's Cube was hard enough, these pictures depict the ultimate challenge for addicts of the 80's craze that just won't go away: doing one blindfolded.

The blindfold competition was just one of the events at this year's fourth Rubik's Cube world championship which began in Budapest on Friday.

Blindfold players try to solve the game by memorizing the position of key cubes before covering their eyes.

Rubik's Cube: Hard enough as it is, but blindfolded?

Players, from over 30 countries, can compete in several categories: besides the classic 3x3 Rubik's Cube, which has six sides with six different colours, there will be competitions in 4x4 and 5x5 cubes as well as one-handed, and even feet-only challenges.

Contestants race against the clock to complete the fiendishly difficult cubes

The world record holder for the 3x3 Rubik's Cube event, Frenchman Thibaut Jacquinot, aligned all the colours on his cube in 9.86 seconds at a competition in May of this year.

Too young to remember it the first time around, this young puzzler looks to have it sorted

The frustrating, yet addictive puzzle, was invented in 1974 by engineer Erno Rubik, and sparked a global craze in the early 1980s.

An estimated 9 million cubes were sold last year, taking the all-time total to more than 300 million units.

At this year's Caltech 2007 competition American Rubik's Cube expert Dan Dzoan broke the world record for one-handed cube-solving by completing one in an incredible 17.9 seconds.

Watch the amazing video:-Dan Dzoan broke the world record for one-handed cube-solving

Skills Challenges Guinness

Cycling surprising performances Hoping Zhou Changchun.

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Tires stood four individuals, Zhang Hui is still with inflatable tires for the nose.

Air guitarist on top of world

A Japanese man has won the Air Guitar World Championship for the second consecutive year. Ochi Yosuke received the highest score from a panel of judges in the final at the Teatria rock club in Oulu, near the Arctic Circle, in northern Finland.

Apart from the glory, he received a custom-made Flying Finn electric guitar worth £1,700.

The surprise of the qualifying round was Oulu native Hilkka 'Gore Kitty' Suvanto, who had twice before scored the lowest points ever, but who achieved a perfect six from many of the judges.

However, it was Ochi who impressed the judges the most in the final showdown, ahead of Guillaume 'Moche Pitt' de Tonquedec, of France, and Austria's Max 'Herr Jaquelin' Heller.

"It's great. We've seen all the nations, united nations, 'rocking on the free world' and that's good, that's great," said de Tonquedec.

Vegetables break records in UK National Giant Vegetable Championships

With record breaking rainfall and devastating floods, you might have thought our dismal summer would have pretty much scuppered this year's harvest.
But judging from the whopping vegetables on display at the National Amateur Gardening show, the weather has not entirely put a dampener on the year's crop.

One pumpkin entered in the UK's National Giant Vegetable Championships in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, weighed in at 200kg. Three-year-old Alexandra Busby is dwarfed by a giant pumpkin

Three-year-old Alexandra Busby from Watford is dwarfed by the mammoth vegetable as she poses for a picture.
Green-fingered Joe Atherton, meanwhile, stands proudly to show off his own record-breaking offering: a 15ft carrot.
The Championships are one of the highlights of the annual, three-day National Amateur Gardening show, which is held at the Bath and West Showground.
Vegetable enthusiasts spend months cultivating their marrows, squash, pumpkins, carrots, beetroot and parsnips in a bid to break the previous records.
There are 27 classes to enter in the giant vegetable section alone, as well as 66 classes in the flower, fruit and standard vegetables competitions.
And it is not only the accolade of having grown a mammoth vegetable they take home, there is also more than £5,000 in cash prizes to win.

A proud Joe Atherton poses with his record-breaking 15 foot carrot

Last year, 90-year-old Alf Cobb, from Holme, near Newark broke the world record with his cucumber which measured a staggering 35 1/8 inches.
This year is the show's 12th anniversary and thousands of visitors are set to flock there before it ends this Sunday.
They might be faced with some surprises in terms of what plants and vegetables are on show because the summer weather has led to some confusion.
High temperatures in April are thought to have sparked plants into flowering early.
And now, after the wettest summer in recent history and cooler weather, they think winter is not far around the corner.
Berries, apples and conkers have already been spotted on trees, while mushrooms are popping up in the fields and countryside.