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Parade · 2026-10-03 · Canada 53 lakh voices, one big reading party India Education Diary · 2026-09-30 · India Down 16, the Valkyries refused to fold — and made franchise history ESPN (Associated Press) · 2026-10-03 · United States Chile wipes out dog-transmitted rabies — a first for South America PAHO via Funds for NGOs · 2026-10-01 · Chile Three tiny monkeys got the shot that could save their whole species EnviroLink · 2026-10-02 · Brazil Mexico brings its wild ones home — condors, wolves, bison and all Mexico Business News · 2026-10-01 · Mexico 32 summits and counting: Kami Rita and Lhakpa Sherpa rewrite Everest history again The Himalaya Times · 2026-05-17 · Nepal Qatar Museums wins six international sustainability awards Qatar Press Observer · 2026-06-11 · Qatar Oman's innovation foundations climb 8 places in the global ranking OERLive · 2026-09-30 · Oman Muscat and Salalah win nine international awards for how they treat travellers IndexBox · 2026-09-06 · Oman A record 250 plantation children reached university — one is training to be a doctor Lanka Business Online · 2026-09-17 · Sri Lanka A Bangladeshi student's AI research on green-transition promises wins gold in Malaysia TBS Graduates · 2026-09-26 · Bangladesh A perfect 100: Bangladesh student tops the world at the climate change olympiad Business in Bangladesh · 2026-10-02 · Bangladesh Bangladesh's literacy rate hits 77.9% — and dropouts who finished skills training found work The Business Standard (TBS News) · 2026-09-07 · Bangladesh Five young Pakistanis picked among the Commonwealth's 100 Young Leaders The Dayspring · 2026-05-05 · Pakistan India's best-ever run at the Earth Science Olympiad: 9 medals against 39 countries IndiaVerve · 2026-08-27 · India Neeru Dhanda shatters the Asian Games record to win India's first women's trap gold Khel Now · 2026-09-29 · India Smriti Mandhana becomes the first woman to score 11,000 international runs Female Cricket · 2026-09-22 · India India's women smash a record 13 sixes to defend Asian Games gold Cricbuzz · 2026-09-22 · India A blind swimmer circled Mackinac Island — all 8.2 miles of it Disability Scoop · 2026-08-09 · USA The nation's top teacher starts every class with community Penn State · 2026-04-21 · USA At 305 pounds, Chad Schumacher finished a 50k ultramarathon Guinness World Records · 2026-09-16 · USA Chase Jackson threw farther than any American woman ever has NBC Sports · 2026-09-04 · USA Masai Russell just ran the fastest 100m hurdles in history Reuters · 2026-08-27 · USA Hubble just completed its 200,000th lap around Earth NASA · 2026-09-23 · USA Jamaican Researchers Win the World's Biggest Education Prize University of the West Indies, Mona · 2026-09-11 · Jamaica Paraguay's padel duo takes the continent's crown Tennis Tonic · 2026-09-27 · Paraguay Martina Weil runs Chile into the record books Archysport · 2026-10-01 · Chile Argentina swims, rows and fences its way to second Archysport · 2026-09-27 · Argentina Ronal Longa, 21, just ran 100m in 9.85 — the fastest South America has ever seen Panam Sports · 2026-06-26 · Colombia Sweden holds second place as the world's most innovative economy WIPO · 2026-09-29 · Sweden Europe's women golfers reclaim the Solheim Cup on Dutch soil Sky Sports · 2026-09-13 · Netherlands Team Europe storms back to win the Laver Cup in London Reuters · 2026-09-27 · UK France's Agathe Guillemot storms to road mile world title in Copenhagen Watch Athletics · 2026-09-20 · Denmark Gilas Women win the Philippines' first-ever Asian Games 3x3 medal FIBA · 2026-10-01 · Japan A 15-year-old from Baguio just solved a Rubik's cube one-handed in 5.33 seconds LiveNews NZ · 2026-05-29 · Philippines Tamil school students from Ladang Kinrara win STEM gold in Bangkok Astro Ulagam · 2026-03-15 · Malaysia Ho Chi Minh City takes three World Travel Awards in one night Travel and Tour World · 2026-09-30 · Vietnam A mountain of clouds in Son La is now Asia's top emerging destination Travel and Tour World · 2026-10-02 · Vietnam Bangkok named Asia's best city for the third year running TAT News · 2026-03-11 · Thailand 12.6 penalties down at dawn, team gold by dusk: Thailand's riders stun the hosts Horse & Rider UK · 2026-09-23 · Japan Down a fencer, up a gold: Korea's sabre women fence through heartbreak Korea JoongAng Daily · 2026-09-27 · Japan At 15, Divya swam the North Channel — the youngest ever Ummid · 2026-08-23 · India Amber-Rose swam the Channel — 100 years after Gertrude Ederle SA Good News · 2026-08-06 · France At 90½, he climbed Kilimanjaro — the oldest ever Reno Gazette Journal · 2026-08-28 · Tanzania 435,831 people did yoga together — live, a world record Press Information Bureau (India) · 2026-06-14 · India Ethel Caterham, 117: the world's oldest person Guinness World Records · 2026-08-21 · UK Goodness Nwachukwu's discus flew 39.66m — a world record Commonwealth Sport · 2026-07-30 · Nigeria She hugged a tree for 72 hours straight — for the planet The Free Library · 2026-01-26 · Kenya Trapped in mud overnight, she charged the vet — then rejoined her herd People · 2026-09-25 · Kenya 251,446 saplings in one hour: Varanasi's green record Devdiscourse · 2026-03-01 · India She swam the English Channel in 8h25m — a South American record SwimSwam · 2026-07-23 · France 51,000 people, one Lagos screening, a world record Widbar · 2026-09-26 · Nigeria Non-verbal and autistic, 16, and a two-time world record cyclist BellaNaija · 2026-04-02 · Nigeria 15 days trapped in an underwater cave — and he walked out alive People · 2026-08-07 · Mexico At 16, Nisha became the youngest woman to summit Everest from Nepal Express News Asia · 2026-05-25 · Nepal At 84, the oldest finisher in Comrades Marathon history Canadian Running · 2026-06-14 · South Africa Base Camp to summit in 9 hours 55 minutes — on foot Rock Climbing Realms · 2026-05-12 · Nepal Kami Rita's 32nd Everest summit — no one has climbed it more Everest Chronicle · 2026-05-17 · Nepal Duplantis does it again: 6.31m, his 15th world record Reuters · 2026-03-12 · Sweden The 10-year-old fashion designer with two more world records People · 2026-10-02 · USA The world's youngest professor is 18 Cape Times · 2026-07-15 · USA 252 meters underwater, no fins, no breath — a fifth world record DeeperBlue · 2026-06-15 · Hungary 112 meters down: Nataliia Zharkova's record dive Guinness World Records · 2026-05-20 · Egypt 129 meters down on a single breath Molchanovs · 2026-07-22 · Philippines At 17, Shin Ohashi swims into history: 2:04.83 SwimSwam · 2026-09-22 · Japan 23.19 seconds: Kate Douglass's swim for the ages SwimSwam · 2026-08-20 · USA The first woman to race solo around the world tells her story NPR Illinois · 2026-09-17 · USA 94 days alone around the world — the hard way Archysport · 2026-03-28 · France 1:59:30 — the first official sub-2-hour marathon FloTrack · 2026-04-26 · UK At 97, Betty did a loop-the-loop on the wing of a plane Guinness World Records · 2026-09-15 · UK A 3.1-mile table, 20,000 guests, $110,000 for sick kids DogoNews · 2026-09-12 · Romania 35 days across the Atlantic: the World's Toughest Row, conquered ExplorersWeb · 2026-06-28 · USA Four women, one boat, all the way around Britain Oceanographic Magazine · 2026-07-24 · UK 43 days alone: the fastest woman to row the Mid-Pacific Guinness World Records · 2026-09-29 · USA Libreville airport becomes Africa's third to reach top carbon rating Airport Carbon Accreditation · 2026-09-28 · Gabon Ethiopia's Amebaw wins two world titles in six days Athletics Africa · 2026-09-19 · Ethiopia Senegal and Ghana's schoolkids win Africa's football crown The Sun Nigeria · 2026-04-12 · Senegal Ghana climbs 13 places in the world press freedom ranking Business Ghana · 2026-05-03 · Ghana Kigali's Tigers win the Basketball Africa League Volta Fame · 2026-06-02 · Rwanda Kenya's Ngetich smashes the half-marathon world record Pulse Sports Kenya · 2026-09-20 · Kenya Two South African writers take the UJ Prize Brittle Paper · 2026-09-29 · South Africa The 'Oscars of science' honored the teams curing blindness, sickle cell, and worse Breakthrough Prize Foundation · 2026-10-03 · USA Australia's 100th community battery just switched on The Cooldown · 2026-10-03 · Australia 70 interviews, 56 hours, one conversation about men's mental health Walton Tribune · 2026-10-01 · UK Kuching named among ASEAN's cleanest tourist cities Travel and Tour World · 2026-09-30 · Malaysia 44.84 seconds: the 100m freestyle record is equalled European Aquatics · 2026-10-02 · Azerbaijan The fastest trip to the space station — commanded by Jessica Watkins NASA · 2026-10-01 · USA Pakistan are through to the Asian Games gold-medal match Latestly · 2026-10-01 · Japan Rwanda's university just won Africa's new $3 million prize Taarifa Rwanda · 2026-10-01 · Rwanda Ninety years old, and still writing new music NPR (Fresh Air) · 2026-10-02 · USA 44.84 seconds — and the record has a new co-owner NBC Sports · 2026-10-02 · Azerbaijan Eleven years old, and the youngest grandmaster ever People · 2026-09-28 · Uzbekistan She just outran Mariah Carey Page Six · 2026-10-01 · USA Two goals, one debut, and a cannon that wouldn't stop Columbus Dispatch · 2026-10-01 · USA The goalie who couldn't resist joining the fun New York Post · 2026-10-01 · USA 70 conversations, 56 hours, one lifeline for struggling founders Wyoming News (via SWNS) · 2026-10-01 · UK Seven hours, fifty-five minutes — and a commander makes history NASA · 2026-10-01 · USA