Doha, Qatar--The giant 3D construction printer installed at a school construction site in Doha, measuring 50m x 30m x 15m (the size of a Boeing 737 hangar), manufactured by COBOD International and operated by UCC Holding, sets the new world record for being the World’s Largest 3D Construction Printer, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States--In a warehouse outside Phoenix, Arizona, thousands of herbs and vegetables are growing in robot-powered bins, moving smoothly through a towering, Rubik’s cube-like grid; this is Opollo Farm, a fully automated vertical farming system built by AutoStore and OnePointOne, which sets the world record for being the World's First Robotic Vertical Farm, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Washington, DC, United States--America’s nuclear reactor fleet consists of 54 power plants, each of which has one to four operating units; in 2024, U.S. utilities operated 94 nuclear reactors with a total net generating capacity of nearly 97 gigawatts (GW), setting the world record for the World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant Fleet, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Martigny, Switzerland--A total of 4,893 people took part in a raclette event in Martigny in western Switzerland; in all, 2,037 kilograms of cheese were consumed, 1,200 kg of potatoes and 1,212 jars of gherkins and onions; a total of 361 cheese scrapers served the thousands in attendance, setting the new world record for the World's Largest Raclette, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Normandy, France--The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies; the invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries; almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies, landed on D-Day in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States--The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a source of epidemiologic information on the incidence and survival rates of cancer in the United States; IT is a clinically-based database containing approximately 40 million records and it is considered the world's largest cancer database, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Miami, Florida, United States--Once the most talked-about ship on the sea, the SS United States is heading toward its final resting place; after years of uncertainty and the loss of the ship’s longtime berth in Philadelphia, the historic ocean liner was purchased by Okaloosa County, Florida, with plans to sink the ship by 2026 to create what will become the World’s largest artificial reef, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

New York City, NY, United States--James C. Wigginton, a 76 year old Vietnam era Marine, climbed the 104 floors, 20226 stairs of the World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower), in New York City, on June 1, 2025 completing a years long quest to set a new World Record as the First Person to climb the tallest building (in terms of stairs) in all 50 United States, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Hingham, Massachusetts, United States--Henry Buckley, a native of Hingham, Massachusetts, worked alongside people double his age but did not let that stop him. He was inspired to work in public service as he grew up watching his grandfather, a prominent attorney and become a Justice of the Peace at 16 years and 3 days, setting the new world record for the World's Youngest Judge, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States--RISE Robotics, a leader in next-generation industrial actuation, developed the Beltdraulic Super Jammer Arm in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force; achieving an astonishing lift of 7,015 pounds, the new robot sets the world record for theStrongest robotic arm (prototype), according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Vatican City State---Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old from Chicago, a leader with global experience, has been elected the 267th pontiff and will be known as Pope Leo XIV; he sets the world record for being the First American pope, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Barcelona, Spain--Spanish automated wind-assisted propulsion system specialist bound4blue has installed four 26-meter high eSAILs fitted to the MV Atlantic Orchard, chartered by French merchant firm Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) and owned by Swedish shipping company Wisby Tankers; the four 26-meter high eSAILs® were installed in under a day per unit, as planned, and set the world record for the World's Largest Suction Sails, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Tianjin city, China--China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) launched at Wuhu Shipyard in Anhui province the fracturing vessel Hai Yang Shi You 696; with a total length of 99.8 meters, a beam of 22 meters and a depth of 9.9 meters, it is designed by the Shanghai Shipbuilding Research & Design Institute (SDARI) and sets the world record for being the World's Largest Offshore Hydraulic Fracturing Vessel, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Yumeshima Island, Osaka, Japan--Constructed for the ongoing Osaka 2025 Expo in Japan by Sou Fujimoto Architects, "The Grand Ring", a huge 2 km (1.2 miles) circular wooden walkway is approximately 30 meters wide (98 ft) with an outer diameter of 675 meters (2,214 ft), setting the new world record for being the World's Largest Wooden Architectural Structure, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Argenteuil, France--Rabat – Moroccan pastry chef Youssef El Gatou, who lives in France, brought together 20 chefs and used 350 kilograms of strawberries, 150kg of sugar and 415kg of cream to make a 1.2 tonne strawberry sake that took a week to complete; it was set out on tables in an ice rink in the Paris suburb town of Argenteuil for residents to inspect, after setting the new world record for the World's Longest Strawberry Cake, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Shanghai, China--A mall in China’s Shanghai has introduced a Gold ATM that allows people to sell their gold jewellery in just 30 minutes; developed by China’s Kinghood Group, is designed to analyze, melt and weigh gold items, setting the world record for being the World's First Gold Recycling ATM, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Beijing, China--BYD’s Shenzhen will transport more than 7,000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) from Taicang, Jiangsu province in China, to Brazil; it has space for 9,200 automobiles; the cargo hold is the size of 20 standard soccer playing fields, is 219.9 meters long, 37.7 meters tall, and has 16 decks, setting the new world record for being the World’s Largest Car Carrier, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Freeport, Illinois, United States--A total of 603 people came together at the Freeport Art Museum Art Plaza in downtown Freeport, Illinois, during the Pretzel Fest in honor of National Pretzel Day, to create a giant human pretzel, setting the new world record for the World's Largest Human Pretzel Image, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Sunan County, Hebei Province, China--Chinese telecom heavyweight Huawei and state-run operator China Unicom had launched a commercial 10-Gigabit (10G) broadband network in Sunan County, Hebei Province, marking a significant development in next-generation internet infrastructure; real-world tests recorded download speeds of up to 9,834 Megabits per second (Mbps), upload speeds reaching 1,008 Mbps, and latency as low as 3 milliseconds, thus setting the new world record for the World’s First 10G Internet Network, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.