Life is just a little bit sweeter today for Andy Wrobel.

After previous failed attempts, Wrobel finally can taste victory as the man who owns the world record for pancake stacking.

Wrobel battered his way into the Guinness World Records on Shrove Tuesday by stacking a whopping 60...

In life, it's important to have balance.

Perhaps no one has taken that phrase to heart or more literally than Canadian Doug McManaman.

He has set more than 436 world records with Recordsetter.com, many of them for balancing things like a 22-pound vacuum on his chin, and

By her own account, 37-year-old graphic designer Di Coke is a winner -- and the record backs her claim.

Coke, who lives in Nottingham, England, with her 38-year-old husband, Rob, is obsessed with winning contests and has done pretty well for herself.

In the last 13 years, she's won more...

If the police officers who arrested Mark Loescher for assault didn't think he was slightly bananas at first, it's possible they changed their minds when he allegedly told them he was half orangutan.

Florida police also say Loescher told them he was also Elvis Presley's brother, a friend of President...

Scientists in England have solved the age-old mystery of how tigers get their stripes.

To do it, the Telegraph reports, they turned to a theory postulated 60 years ago by legendary mathematician Alan Turing, who is considered the father of computer science.

Turing, who helped break the Nazi...

If someone's been drinking, you usually take away their car keys, not give them yours.

Erin Brown did just that and now the resident of Hermitage, Tenn., faces 30 years in prison.

Back in December, Brown, 21, gave her car keys to her boyfriend, 23-year-old Trevor Bradshaw, thinking he was...

Valentine's Day was a week ago, but a Portland man is still stunned by the heartfelt gift left on his doorstep: A cow's heart with a note reading, "You will always have my heart."

While butchers or taxidermists might consider it a sweet, if bizarre, way to show affection, Scott...

Austin police officials are disputing police blogger Scott Henson's claim that cops drew Tasers and roughly handcuffed him simply for walking home with his five-year-old granddaughter.

They have just released a surveillance video taken during the incident that supports their claim.

"He lied," Austin Police Chief...

Nearly everyone on Facebook has been tagged with an embarrasing photo, but most people don't sue the person who tagged them.

Minneapolis resident Eric Olson did. And the person he sued was his uncle, Randall LaBrie.

After LaBrie posted childhood photos of Olson in front of a Christmas tree and...

Can't stand President Obama? Not prepared to cast a vote for Mitt Romney or anyone else vying for the Republican nod?

How would you like a candidate who will gladly show you everything that doesn't fit in his tighty-whities?

With Presidents' Day upon us, take a moment to appreciate the...

Death is inevitable. That's a sad but true fact of our existence.

But while we are all going to go sometime, each person kicks the bucket in their own way.

Some people die of old age in their sleep while others pass away under bizarre circumstances ... like being killed...

Death is inevitable. That's a sad but true fact of our existence.

But while we are all going to go sometime, each person kicks the bucket in their own way.

Some people die of old age in their sleep while others pass away under bizarre circumstances ... like being killed...

Most days CNN producer Jennifer Hauser spends her time working on news stories.

Today, she's making the news.

Hauser, who lives in Atlanta, scratched her way to a $1 million win in the Georgia Lottery playing the instant game 50X The Money.

Since this win occurred just three...

Most days CNN producer Jennifer Hauser spends her time working on news stories.

Today, she's making the news.

Hauser, who lives in Atlanta, scratched her way to a $1 million win in the Georgia Lottery playing the instant game 50X The Money.

Since this win occurred just three...

There's an old saying that artists have to suffer, but after six years of paralysis, Christina Symanski decided she had suffered enough.

Symanski, 31, broke her neck diving into a shallow swimming pool in June, 2005.

An artist and teacher in East Brunswick, N.J., Symanski was rescued by her...

There's an old saying that artists have to suffer, but after six years of paralysis, Christine Szymanski decided she had suffered enough.

Szymanski, 31, broke her neck diving into a shallow swimming pool in June, 2005.

An artist and teacher in East Brunswick, N.J., Szymanski was rescued by her...

Rosie O'Donnell's recent interview with Chelsea Handler on her Oprah Winfrey Network talk show is causing big problems for both performers with America's little people.

One segment of the interview, which took place on "The Rosie Show," had the two talk show hosts discussing their differing...

Germany has given the English language words like "kaput," "verboten," and "über," and now the English language has returned the favor by giving "Deutschland" a great word of its own: "shitstorm."

Yes, you read correctly, even with the asterisks.

A group of German linguists has chosen "shitstorm" as the "Anglicism...

A crime and politics blogger living in Austin, Texas, claims he was cuffed and detained by police for simply walking home with his five-year-old granddaughter.

The reason this happened, he says, is because he is white and she is black.

Scott Henson, a political consultant who Read Post

Keith Martin may soon hold a new world record without even getting out of bed.

Sadly, he'd probably prefer to be able to get out of bed.

Martin currently weighs 812 pounds. He is believed to be the world's fattest man alive, even though the excess weight has kept him...