A retired policeman has smashed a world record, reeling in a 244 kg halibut in Senja, northern Norway. Read the full story

Winners of Islandsbanki’s Eurovision competition were yesterday rewarded the world’s biggest credit cards, each pre-paid with ISK 50,000 (EUR 303) credit. Read the full story

A Norwegian comedian is attempting to break a world record by performing a solo stand-up show for more than 38 hours and six minutes. Hans Morten Hansen, 46, from Stavanger, will be attempting the side-splitting slog during the Oslo Comedy Festival, which started this Wednesday. The current record is held by Australian Lindsay Webb, who beat the previous holder, Irishman Tommy Tiernan’s 36 hours and 15 minutes attempt, by one hour and 51 minutes. Read the full story

The Grand Hotel Reykjavik provided their award winning service to this year’s record-breaking paralympic athletes at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships held between 18th-24th October. Collectively, 24 world records and 73 European records were smashed over the course of the seven-day event. Read the full story

There’s a record for just about everything, and last week a Norwegian man got to put his name in the Guinness Book of Records when he lifted 100.38kg using only his little finger. Read the full story

A new world record has been set for the number of dominoes laid out and dropped in a single go. Miss Finland, Salima Peippo had the rather dramatic honour of tipping over the first domino. Her background as an acrobat served her well, as Peippo was suspended by ropes from the ceiling of the venue and Read the full story