A man was on fire – literally – as he completed a series of backflips to set a new world record for most standing backwards somersaults in 30 seconds during a full body burn.

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to ...

Known as the Badlands Guardian, it was first identified in November 2006 by Lynn Hickox, who spotted it near the town of ...