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What better way is there to ring the fall season than with a good old traditional giant pumpkin contest? One such contest takes place every year in the German city of Ludwigsburg, where farmers from all over Europe roll out the biggest pumpkins you can imagine. 24-year-old Belgian farmer Mathias Willemijns won Ludwigsburg's pumpkin competition on Sunday, with a gourd that weighed in at 1,008 kilograms, or 2,222 pounds.
A group of Berlin chefs decided that the record for the world's biggest doner belongs in Berlin and made an official attempt for the world's biggest kebab at the Mall of Berlin in Potsdamer Platz last weekend. The record attempt in Berlin was successful and was verified by the Record Institute of Germany, a counterpart of the Guinness Book of World Records, and weighed in at 934 pounds in total.
This beauty is Sailing Yacht A, the largest sailing yacht in the world. The 300-foot-high and 468-foot-long yacht has eight floors, includes an underwater observation room, and is worth an estimated $402 million. Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko, the owner of the unique sailing craft, faced a legal battle after Sailing Yacht A was seized last week when German shipbuilder Nobiskrug filed a claim against the vessel’s owners Valla Yachts Limited, a Bermuda-based company with which Melnichenko is seemingly connected.
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
A fire burns at night atop the Cerro El Cable mountain in Colombia's capital, as the country endures record temperatures. IMAGES
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa meets the Springboks in Pretoria after their record fourth Rugby World Cup win. IMAGES
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