Jack Tsonis and Lindsay Morrison attempt to break the world record for the longest handshake in Sydney. The pair chose the United Nations' International Day of Peace for the record attempt and are also raising money for charity.

The world's shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi greets the tallest living man Sultan Kosen to mark the Guinness World Records Day in London. Kosen measuring 251cm towers over Dangi who is only 54.6cm tall. The Guinness World Records celebrates its 60th edition of the annual records book.

Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, who holds the world record for the "Tallest Mohawk," poses for a photographer at a media event held by the Guinness World Records to launch their 2013 book edition in New York. According to the Guinness World Records, Watanabe's do stands at 3 feet 8.6 inches.

This trolley case has been certified as the world's largest by the Guinness World Records which measures 175cm (5ft 9in) by 115cm (3ft 9.3in) by 46cm (1ft 6.1in) thick.

Jyoti Amge,19, from Nagpur, India, is measured by a Guinness World Record official on top of the Empire State Building in New York. Standing 24.7 inches tall, Amge has held the title of the "Shortest Living Woman" since her 18th birthday on December 16, 2011.

111-year-old Alexander Imich holds a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing him as the world's oldest living man during an interview with Reuters at his home on New York City's upper west side. Dr Imich, who holds a PhD in Zoology, was born in Poland on February 4, 1903, fled Poland when the Nazis took over in 1939, survived a slave labour camp in Russia and moved to the United States in 1951 where he became an author on parapsychology.

Trainer Robert Mistler boosts cyclist Robert Marchand of France next to trainer Magali Humbert-Perret during his attempt to set a world record for cycling non-stop for one hour, in the over 100- year old category, at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) velodrome in Aigle. Marchand, born November 26, 1911, cycled 24.251 km (15 miles) around the 200-metre indoor track to set the record.

A staff member pulls a record-breaking thinnest latex condom during a news conference in Hong Kong. AONI, a Hong Kong-funded brand, won the Guinness World Records last year for its AONI ultra-thin 001 natural rubber latex condom. The world's thinnest latex condom has an average thickness of 0.036 mm (0.001417 inches).

Actors pose with gym equipment on what the Guinness World Records bills as the world's largest 3D painting, at Canary Wharf in London. British artist Joe Hill's creation measures in excess of 1120 square metres (12,000 square feet), breaking records for the longest and largest surface area 3D painting, according to Guinness.

Workers roll a rubberband ball to a scale for certification of weight during a Guinness Book of World Records official weigh-in in Chicago. The 4,594 pound (2,084 kg) ball beat the previous record of 3,120.

Septuagenarian Isobel Varley poses during 'II Expotatoo' tattoo fair in Gijon, northern Spain. Varley, who was born in 1937, is the most senior tattooed woman in the world according to the Guinness World Records.

Jin Songhao drinks beer as he sits in snow during a cold endurance performance in Yanji, Jilin province. Jin set the Guinness record for the longest time spent in direct full body contact with snow with a time of 46 minutes and seven seconds, local media reported.

Beekeeper She Ping is covered with bees during a challenge to break the world record in Chongqing Municipality. She Ping, 32, broke the world record on Wednesday by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees), overtaking the last world record of 26.8 kilograms of bees which was attempted by a Jiangxi province beekeeper Ruan Liangming in 2008, local media reported.

The Guinness World Record flute of ice wine is poured by Jeff Hundertmark of Marynissen Estate Winery and Barry Katzman of Mike Weir Wines as Ed Madronich, chairman of the Wine Council of Ontario looks on, as part of the Niagara Icewine Festival in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Over 30 Ontario wineries poured twenty-seven litres of icewine into a four-foot-tall flute, setting a new record, local media reported.

Chris "The Duchess" Walton shows off her Guinness world record holding fingernails outside the New York Public Library in New York. Her nails measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right hand that she has been growing for 18 years.