Weirdest world record holders

The Frozen Haute Chocolate is unveiled at the Serendipity-3 restaurant in New York after Guiness World Records researchers determined the $25,000 frozen hot chocolate was the most expensive dessert in the world.

The Frozen Haute Chocolate is unveiled at the Serendipity-3 restaurant in New York after Guiness World Records researchers determined the $25,000 frozen hot chocolate was the most expensive dessert in the world.

Lebanese Shi'ite sheikh Hassan al-Zayyat marks punctuation on Koranic verses that he had hand copied on 100x70 cm pages in his village of Tayr Dibba, southern Lebanon, aspiring to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest handwritten Koran. Zayyat's project will fill 309 pages by the end of the year, after four years of painstaking work.

Surfers line up in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most surfers on one wave at Muizenberg in Cape Town. Organisers claimed a new record of 73 surfers standing on a wave for 5 seconds, beating the previous total of 53.

Brazilian Elaine Davidson, who holds the Guinness world record for being the woman with the greatest number of body piercings - 1903 altogether - pokes her finger through her tongue at the Tate Modern art gallery in London.

Chefs cook an omelette during a Guinness World Records attempt for the world's largest omelette in Ankara. The chefs attempt to cook the world's largest omelette weighing 6 tonnes with a total of 432 litres of oil and 110,000 eggs used.

Lee Redmond, who holds the record for the woman with the longest fingernails, shows her nails during Ripley's Believe It Or Not !

Brian Spotts of the U.S. works to balance 439 eggs on their ends on the floor of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. Spotts, who lives in Colorado, travelled to Melbourne to attempt a new world egg balancing record which currently stands at 420 eggs.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo slices a giant strawberry shaped shortcake that won the Guiness World Record's record for the largest fruit shortcake during her visit to La Trinidad in Benguet Province north of Manila.

Septuagenarian Isobel Varley poses during 'II Expotatoo' tattoo fair in Gijon, northern Spain. Varley, who was born in 1937, is the most senior tattooed woman in the world according to the Guinness World Records.