A total of 582 drummers - including a number of celebrity musicians - smashed the previous world record of 533 drummers, set in the United States, just before 4pm on Monday.

Craig Glover, an organiser, said: "It's been absolutely fantastic. Everyone has really enjoyed themselves - it was a really good atmosphere. We did a simple rock groove and played for at least 10 minutes."

The charity event, called Stick It To MS, has so far raised £20,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, although organisers hope to reach £50,000.

Drummers as young as five and as old as 50 travelled from across the UK to take part in the record bid, believed to be the UK's first attempt.

A number of special guest drummers joined in, including Slade's Don Powell and Cold Feet and Coronation Street actor John Thomson.

Mr Glover, 41, from Marston Green, Birmingham, added: "We have video evidence and certificates, which we will now send off to get verified by Guinness World Records."

Subaru of America, Inc.’s Great Lakes Region, in partnership with the Village of Itasca, announced today that it will attempt to set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) record for the “Largest Parade of Subaru Cars.” The attempt will take place on July 11, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. The parade will start at 500 Park Boulevard in Itasca, Illinois.

Starting June 22 through July 8, interested participants can register their Subaru in the parade by visiting www.subaru.com/parade.

In celebration of this exciting event, Subaru’s Great Lakes Region will make a donation of $15 per participating Subaru vehicle up to a total donation amount of $7,000. This donation will be shared equally between PAWS Chicago and Salute, Inc. For more information on these organizations please visit their respective websites at www.pawschicago.org/ and www.saluteinc.org/.

An official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) adjudicator will be on site to observe and confirm this record attempt.

In addition to going for the record and helping raise funds for two great organizations, parade participants:

 -- Will receive a special gift bag (one per car).

-- Are invited to attend Itasca Fest following the GUINNESS WORLD
 RECORDS(TM) attempt. This fest is great for the entire family and
 features: live entertainment, carnival rides, food, bingo, kids'
 entertainment, a three-on-three basketball tournament, and NASA's
 "Journey to Tomorrow" exhibit. For more information visit
 www.itasca.com.

-- Are eligible for a special event room rate of $89 per night* at The
 Westin Chicago Northwest hotel. For your convenience, this four-star,
 four-diamond hotel is located within walking distance from the start
 of the parade. To make a reservation, simply visit
 www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=0906159812&key=A9AB8.
 The event rate is good for parade participants only and based on
 availability.

You can’t keep Pittsburgh zombies down. After temporarily ceding the world record for largest zombie walk to Nottingham, England, the record has been reclaimed by the city that established the initial record in 2006.

The zombie walk held at the Monroeville Mall outside Pittsburgh, PA on October 26, 2008 has been certified by Guinness World Records as the World’s Largest Zombie Walk with 1,341 participants. The walk was organized by The It’s Alive Show, a weekly horror host program originating from Pittsburgh, as part of its World Zombie Day, where more than 50 cities worldwide participated in zombie walks and food drives on the same day, cumulatively raising more than two tons of food donations to benefit their local hunger charities.

World Zombie Day was also honored with a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Fan Event of 2008. The Rondos are awarded for excellence in the horror genre by the Classic Horror Film Board based solely on fan nominations and voting.

Pittsburgh established the inaugural Guinness World Record for largest zombie walk in 2006, when 892 people dressed as zombies invaded the Monroeville Mall, site of the iconic zombie film “Dawn of the Dead”. Since then, the popularity of zombie walks has exploded, many of which feature a charity event.

This year’s World Zombie Day will take place on Sunday, October 11 with the hub once again at the Monroeville Mall. Cities around the world are lining up to participate in this charity event to raise awareness of global hunger. Participants in the zombie walks are asked to bring a non-perishable food item as a donation.

Believe it or not, the Guinness Book of World Records includes a record for most potato chips crunched at the same time. This we know because Guinness signed off on the record set by 39,203 baseball fans who crunched at once at Friday's New York Mets-Cincinnati Reds game at Citi Field.

At 7:35 p.m. EDT, in the middle of the second inning, fans were instructed to open the bags of chips they were given upon entry to the stadium and participate in the Big City Crunch, a promotion for Wise Snacks.

Danny Girton Jr., the adjudication manager on-site from Guinness, said there was a definite crunch sound from all over the ballpark and, based upon the audible and visual evidence, he certified the world record.

Then, as has been their routine of late, the Mets went out and were crunched by the Reds, 3-0.

KK Thomas, an alumnus of BVB College of Engineering and Technology (BVBCET) here, has entered into `Limca Book of Records for developing an interesting mathematical skill.

He has demonstrated his skill of extracting square roots of 10-digit numbers in 20 to 30 seconds and cube roots of 15-digit numbers in 40 to 60 seconds without using, pen, paper, calculator or any other aid. Acknowledging his feat, `The Limca Book of Records' granted him a certificate recently.

What is interesting is that Thomas developed the methodology when he was 60 years. This technique is not illustrated in any mathematical journal. He has developed innovative methods of carrying out addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

IISc, IIT and the London Mathematical Society have backed his claims. Born in Karwar, he was educated in Dharwad and Hubli. He worked for various private firms in India and the Gulf.

The principal, staff, students of BVBCET have congratulated him, a release from the college said.

Three young men from Chandigarh claim to have created a world record of the fastest drive from India’s western to eastern tip, covering 3,941 km in just 85 hours.

These adventure-loving youngsters - Bhalinder Singh Sangha, 30, Rana Sidhu, 29, and Karanbir Singh Bedi, 27 - covered a distance of approximately 3,941 km from Koteshwar in Gujarat to Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh.

“The previous record is of 119 hours and we have surpassed it by around 34 hours. We had willingly used a recently launched Mahindra Xylo in the journey as we wanted to test a new vehicle on this terrain,” Sangha told reporters here Friday.

Sanga is a rally driver and owns an automobile workshop.

“Our original plan was to cover 1,255 km every 24 hours to ensure that we complete the targeted 3,766 km in 90 hours with six-hour breaks thrown in. However, we managed to reach our destination in just 84 hours and 52 minutes and also covered an extra 175 km.”

The drive was sponsored by the Mahindra group.

Sidhu, a mountaineer who works with Tech Mahindra, said: “We had done a lot of physical training and practice for nearly six months before starting this expedition. The total cost incurred in this entire trip was Rs.150,000.

“We have submitted all our petrol bills, road maps, recorded data and other details of the journey to the officials of Limca Book of Records and we are expecting our name to feature in the Limca Book of Records 2010.”

“Now we are all geared up to set a new world record of fastest drive from North to South end of the country in the coming months,” Sidhu said.

Bedi is a senior correspondent with the automobile magazine Overdrive.