It was my ex girlfriend. While I was breaking the record underwater for the first time, she was sifting through my Blackberry, checking all my messages.

It wasn't the resume of breaking this record here, it was more like, who had I become?

Two jockeys have reached the milestone in jump racing champion jockey Richard Johnson and retired 20 time champion Sir Anthony McCoy, who had more than 4,300 victories in a record breaking career.

And the Northwest Passage in the Arctic became ice free for the first time in living memory. Last year, more than a hundred people were killed in bush fires in Australia, following drought and record breaking heat.

Extreme runner Ray Zahab shares an enthusiastic account of his record breaking trek on foot to the South Pole a 33 day sprint through the snow.

And this is her getting the world record in real time.

And my fastest time, which was the world record, was 15.77.

Meanwhile California has emerged from its own record breaking heat wave. For the United States as a whole, the first six months of 2006 were the hottest in more than a century.

Others called for breaking into smaller groups as a cost effective way to cover more ground in the same amount of time.

Nor, at the time, did he challenge the sufficiency of the record before the courts.

Everything started breaking.

Mexico Breaking Good?

I decided that I was going to break the world record live on prime time television.

And you can look in the brain of such a child and record those time constants.

Moreover, next year he will have been Prime Minister for a decade, longer than any previous Labour leader. A little longer, and he would outlast Margaret Thatcher s record breaking tenure, which must have been a temptation.

Breaking the Climate Deadlock

Breaking the Windows Barrier

Lewis Pugh talks about his record breaking swim across the North Pole. He braved the icy waters to highlight the melting icecap. Watch for astonishing footage and some blunt commentary on the realities of supercold water swims.

Enzymes are breaking forth sugars.

Many barriers are breaking down.

Breaking Europe s Climate Change Stalemate

He's not breaking the law.

We are breaking new ground.

And they start writing the kind of date stamp, time stamps for each little bleep that they record.

We're living in a time of mass extinctions that exceeds the fossil record by a factor of 10,000.

But it is not just the new US leader who will inherit a changed world. Across the Pacific, the days of record breaking economic growth in Asia a key component of social and political stability may be coming to an end.

No breaking into your circulatory system.

Doing what? Breaking stones, digging earth.

Breaking the Neoclassical Monopoly in Economics

They are breaking down the wall.

Phelps, meanwhile, broke a 2,168 year old record for the most all time individual Olympic titles with the victory.

We want to go and spend time with the old people and hear their stories and record their oral histories.

What we see when we look back in time, in those sediments and rocks, is a record of Earth history.

There's other ways of breaking the pyramid.

Breaking the cycle of violence and inequity

We know that we have to move from our fossil dependence very quickly into a low carbon economy in record time.

Not this time. The record plunge in consumer demand during the Great Recession has been followed by persistently subpar consumption growth.

Advanced clone of the MasterMind code breaking game

A 400 foot tall calving face breaking off.

Madeleine Albright This is Breaking the Glass Ceiling.

Mickelson, playing in the biennial event for a record 12th time, was benched by captain Jim Furyk for Saturday's fourballs and foursomes.

That little tag can record temperature, depth and light intensity, which is correlated with time, and from that we can get locations.

I must apologize to you for breaking the vase.

Bill Gates How state budgets are breaking US schools

And he said, Well we were mostly breaking stealth.