She’s got game. A British superfan earned the Guinness World Record for amassing the largest collection of “Tomb Raider” games. Amy Dyson of Milton Keynes owns 291 unique copies of the video games in the action-adventure franchise. She suffers from a neurological disorder and says the games help her cope.
Amy Dyson earned the Guinness World Record for amassing the the largest collection of “Tomb Raider” games. Guinesss World Records AUSTRALIA
A Queensland sprinter made history at the Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney. Lachlan Kennedy, 22, ran the men’s 100 meters in 9.96 seconds, the first time an Australian has run under 10 seconds on home soil.
They didn’t really nip it in the bud. Although this year’s cherry blossom festival in Fujiyoshida’s Arakurayama Sengen Park was canceled due to over-tourism, that did not stop visitors from lining up there to get a glimpse of the scenic views. Beginning on April 1, the start of the region’s cherry blossom season, Fujiyoshida amped up its security guards and banned tour buses and vehicles from entering the neighborhood, but visitors can still walk to the park, which is home to over 650 Yoshino cherry trees.
Tourists still flocked to Fujiyoshida’s Arakurayama Sengen Park despite its cherry blossom festival being canceled. Getty Images CANADA
This is one sticky situation. Quebec grocery stores are facing a scandal involving fake maple syrup. The investigative TV program “Enquête” lab tested five cans of the “pure maple syrup” made by a producer in Saint-Chrysostome after a journalist reported his tasted strange. All of the cans, which were bought in different stores, contained at least 50% cane sugar. After the exposé, shoppers still found cans of the syrup on shelves, this time with a sticker hiding the disgraced company’s name.
He made another splash. Just 10 months after setting a Guinness World Record for swimming the fastest ever 28.- mile lap around Manhattan — in just over 5 hours and 34 minutes — David Olvera of San Luis Potosí set another world record. The 31-year-old swam 52.8 miles nonstop from Cozumel to Cancún in 16 hours and 48 minutes.
