A Hungarian man has set a new record for longest video game marathon by playing the rhythm-based music game Dance Dance Revolution for six days. Szabolcs Csépe, from Budapest, bopped to over 3000 songs and burned more than 22,000 calories in his quest to romp into the record books. The 34-year-old, known as GrassHopper on his gaming channels, said that preparation for the marathon took six months and included physical training, focusing on his legs and glutes, as well a a diet plan. Playing DDR is always fun for me, he told BBC News, so this challenge was best described as tediously joyful. His feat has been officially recognised by Guinness World Records.

A tornado tore through Val-d'Oise, north of Paris, on Monday, toppling construction cranes, damaging properties and uprooting trees in its path. One person was killed and four others critically injured, authorities said. The town of Ermont, about 20 km (13 miles) northeast of Paris was hardest hit by the sudden twister, which caused damage in multiple districts. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on the X social media platform that it had been a storm of rare intensity. Drone footage shows blaze destroying the historic Bernaga Monastery in Italy.

BBC at scene of'brazen' Louvre jewel theft A manhunt is under way for a gang of thieves who carried out a broad daylight raid on Paris's Louvre Museum, and stole jewels described as priceless. The gang appear to have used a mechanical ladder to reach a first-floor window, before breaking into display cases and escaping on motorbikes. The BBC's Hugh Schofield is outside the museum where the extraordinary, daring and brazen robbery took place. Drone footage shows blaze destroying the historic Bernaga Monastery in Italy. Could a Corrie cameo be on the cards for Daniel O'Donnell?

Drone footage has emerged showing a blaze destroying the historic Bernaga Monastery in Italy. Founded in La Valletta Brianza in 1628, it is located about 30km (19 miles) east of Milan. More than 20 cloistered nuns were evacuated from the scene, according to Italian media reports. Could a Corrie cameo be on the cards for Daniel O'Donnell? Daniel O'Donnell said making a cameo on Coronation Street is on his bucket list.

Drone footage has captured a group of polar bears living inside an abandoned research station on Russia's Kolyuchin Island. Travel blogger, Vadim Makhorov, shared video that shows several bears inside the scattered building, looking through windows and walking around the island. A bear could be seen trying to catch the blogger's drone as it approached. The Kolyuchin weather station was abandoned in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian Alexey Molchanov breaks his own 2024 world record in one of the most technically challenging freediving events.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy reports on Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest demands in negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war on'Fox Report.' A Ukrainian sniper unit on Thursday reportedly broke the world record for the longest confirmed sniper kill, eliminating Russian troops from a distance of more than 13,000 feet (4,000 meters). The shot, fired by a Ukrainian-produced rifle and aided by artificial intelligence and drone guidance, left two Russian soldiers dead in the area of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reported. "The record-breaking shot was made on Aug. 14, 2025, using artificial intelligence under the guidance of [an unmanned aerial vehicle] complex with a 14.5 mm alligator rifle," said military journalist Yuri Butusov, according to the Kyiv Post. A serviceman of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces checks the sky for Russian combat drones amid Russia's attack on Ukraine near the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Aug. 5, 2025.

Once regarded as a futuristic technology that would be exploited by robots to take over the world, artificial intelligence is rapidly growing in scope and capabilities. Automakers, for one, are putting it to use to create advanced concepts and production vehicles. And Italian supercar builder Maserati is harnessing the technology to set world records. This month, an AI-controlled Maserati MC20 reached 197.7 miles per hour at Kennedy Space Center. The Maserati obliterated the previous record set by an Indy Autonomous Challenge AV-21 racecar set in 2022 by nearly five full seconds, an impressive feat for a robot-driven car.

The vehicle traveled 1,806 miles on a single tank of hydrogen. Hydrogen-powered trucks are making waves in the world of clean transportation, and the H2Rescue truck just set a new Guinness World Record to prove it. This impressive vehicle, developed by Cummins Accelera in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and Department of Defense, traveled an astounding 1,806 miles on a single tank of hydrogen. The H2Rescue truck embarked on its record-setting trip in California, carrying 386 pounds of hydrogen fuel. Throughout the journey, it navigated rush hour traffic, maintained speeds between 50 and 55 mph and operated in temperatures ranging from 60 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Olympic 1500m bronze medal winner Georgia Bell said she is still undecided about whether to become a full-time athlete. The 30-year-old only returned to running three years ago having fallen out of love with the sport. Bell still works for a a cyber security software company in London. "I've been on a break over the summer to focus on the Olympics and the plan is to go back in September," she said. "Work have been super-supportive and we'll see what happens. I think it will be really difficult to balance both. So it's something I'm going to think about."

Elon Musk claims Neuralink has implanted a second human volunteer with its experimental N1 brain-computer interface (BCI) and that it's "working very well." But like the coin-sized device within the company's first patient, only a fraction of the electrodes are reportedly functioning properly. "I don't want to jinx it but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second implant," Neuralink's CEO said during an August 2 podcast interview with computer scientist, Lex Fridman. "A lot of electrodes" is arguably a relative number, however. During his lengthy conversation with Fridman, Musk clarified that while initial results appear "so far, so good," he estimates only roughly 400 of the BCI's 1,024 electrodes surgically implanted into the user's motor cortex are currently providing signals.