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Moscow, Oct 9 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Maxim Shipenkov) Russia registered 12,126 new cases of COVID-19 in the last twenty-four hours, the highest number of daily infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, the health authorities reported this Friday.FOOTAGE OF DOCTORS AND PATIENTS IN KOMMUNARKA, NEW MOSCOW.
A new record breaking cable car gondola opened at Valley Station in Bavaria's Grainau on Thursday and started taking take brave visitors to the peak of the Zugspitze - the highest point in Germany. The cable car breaks several world records, including the world's tallest steel support standing at 417 feet, the longest distance from the only support to the mountain station at 10,540 feet, and the largest height difference between the valley station and the mountain station at 6381 feet.
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.
A total of 30 chefs from the Central American Academy of Gastronomy teamed up to make an attempt for a world record for the largest baleada ever made in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Saturday. Some 310 pounds of wheat flour were used and around 1,500 eggs were also cracked open to make the tortilla while 350 pounds of cheese, butter and beans went into the toppings for the popular Honduran traditional dish.
Staying fit is a challenge at any age, but 103-year-old Mieko Nagaoka continues to swim laps well past her century mark. In fact, the Japanese world record swimmer is training twice a week with her son Hiroyuki Nagaoka at the Yanai Swimming school in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture, for another major competition. Her body is not failing her, in fact, she is only getting stronger and quicker in preparation for when her speed in the water will be measured against the clock.
About 3,500 people gathered in the German town of Pilsting on Sunday, to witness as a team of over 300 people made an attempt to secure the world record for the world's biggest burger. They had a tall order to fill - the record at the time of their attempt was an unbelievable 2,015 pounds. The man behind the plan was none other than Rudi Dietl, a passionate world record chaser who had made, and secured, at least three records in the past: the world's biggest pizza, the world's tallest cotton candy, and the world's fastest tire change.
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