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The "Blue Moon" diamond sells at auction in Switzerland for a record 48.6 million Swiss francs ($48.4 million). Elly Park reports.
103-year-old Rut Larsson becomes the world's oldest person to complete a tandem parachute jump after skydiving in Motala, Sweden.
French freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri sets another world record for the longest distance travelled under a sheet of frozen ice with a single breath, swimming 105 metres in Morrison's Quarry, Quebec. Wearing just a pair of swimming trunks, Guerin-Boeri swam for 2 minutes 27 seconds in water that was just 0.7 degrees Celsius.
It is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter.
The "Russian Hulk" used all of his strength and power to set a new world record by towing a convoy weighing more than 50 tons using only a rope on Wednesday.