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.