Couples in Thailand go for Hugging World Record

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Thirty-one couples gathered in Pattaya on Thursday in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest hug, a day ahead of Valentine's Day. The current record is held by a British pair Sanderson Jones and Mikey Lear in 2013. Their hug lasted for 25 hours, 22 minutes and 36 seconds. If a couple breaks the record, they will win two diamond rings and a cash prize.

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Couch Potatoes Set TV-Watching World Record

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Three men set a new world record for the longest television-watching marathon - after enduring an 87-hour stint over five days. Dan Jordan, Spencer Larson and Chris Laughlin achieved the honour during the Consumer Electronics show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Nevada.

 The trio, all from Las Vegas, watched programing from two TiVo Roamio digital video recorders that had been broadcast and recorded ahead of the attempt They were allowed breaks of five minutes per hour to use the bathroom or nap, in accordance with Guinness World Records rules for the category.

 While allowed to save the five-minute breaks, the longest anyone slept during the 87 hours at any one time was 80 minutes. They underwent regular medical checkups throughout and were allowed to change channels and eat and drink while they watched, but were not allowed to read or talk on the phone at the same time. For completing the marathon, the three shared a prize of $5,000 (£3,038) and received a package including a TV, TiVo Roamio with product lifetime service, iPad, Sonos system, gamer chair and a year's Netflix subscription.

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Pink Star Diamond Fetches $83m World Record Auction

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A plum-sized diamond known as the "Pink Star" was auctioned in Geneva Wednesday for US$83 million, a world record for a gemstone. David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby's jewellery division in Europe and the Middle East, brought down the hammer in a Geneva hotel after an intense, five-minute bidding race between four contenders. 

The winner, a bearded man in his sixties, declined to identify himself to AFP but confirmed that he had been representing another individual. Sotheby's later said the buyer was Isaac Wolf, a New York diamond cutter, who was going to rename the stone "The Pink Dream". The diamond was the star of a high-end jewellery auction in the upscale Beau Rivage Hotel on the shore of Lake Geneva. The diamond had been estimated at US$60 million.

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