The world record for the world's shortest man has been claimed by a 24-year-old Colombian named Edward Nino Hernandez - who is just 27inches tall.

The world record for the world's shortest man has been claimed by a 24-year-old Colombian named Edward Nino Hernandez - who is just 27inches tall.

The Dutch city of Breda played host to ?Red Hair Day? over the weekend, as the world's ginger community gathered in the Netherlands.

A 70cm (27-inch) tall Colombian is named the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records.

Perry Watkins from Buckinghamshire has set what he hopes is a new world record for the fastest piece of furniture, a Queen Anne dining table.

Here at Metro, we have always tried to resist getting cheap laughs from odd-shaped vegetables. That was until we saw this Buzz Lightyear carrot.

A grieving businessman has spent £15,000 creating a life-size doll of his dead lover, a sex shop owner has claimed.

If you thought an old typewriter was just for producing letters on, think again - one artist is using ancient manual typrewriters to create astonishingly lifelike portraits of famous people.

A YouTube video of Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' being played in a 110-foot-high instrument called a carillon - in a bell tower at a university in Iowa - has become an online hit.

A British motoring enthusiast is hoping to break the world record for the fastest piece of furniture - with a motorised table that can achieve speeds over 100mph.

An amateur gardener grows what he believes to be the largest potato in the world.

Thousands of people watch Robbie Williams switch on Blackpool's illuminations.

The body of a dead rat, believed to have been trapped during tinning, has been found inside a tin of baked beans by a catering chef.

An Australian head teacher is under fire after removing the word gay from the famous song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.

Ants may be hundreds of times smaller than an African elephant but when it comes to protecting their homes they are fearless.

A pet owner in China has been accused of animal cruelty after he taught his new puppy to smoke cigarettes - with the result that the dog now smoke a pack a day.

An 82-year-old man was arrested by Dutch police after he bit officers who tried to intervene in am argument he was having with a neighbour over a pet.

An Australian headteacher ordered primary school pupils to replace a ?gay? kookaburra sitting in an old gum tree with a ?fun? bird in the classic song.

Two goats proved to be real silly billies when they got stranded for two days on the ledge of a bridge.

A barber couple have moved their business into a pub... and have launched their own beer to celebrate.