Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The first thing Paul Marti wants you to understand about his odd and wondrous matchstick creations — his delicate cathedrals, soaring castles, luxe mansions ...

Guinness World Records initially said 7.2-metre structure made from more than 700,000 matches broke rules A man has been awarded the Guinness world record for creating the tallest structure using ...

Jim Miller has been making matchstick buildings since 1995. A former banker has dedicated his retirement to creating replica matchstick models of Ayrshire buildings. In June, Jim Miller completed his ...

LONDON — You could say Richard Plaud's dreams of making the world's tallest matchstick sculpture may have gone up in smoke. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Pat Acton, a former career counselor in central Iowa, spent some 1,000 hours a year between 2007 and 2010 building a matchstick model of the mythic Minas Tirith city from "Lord of the Rings." The ...

It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...

Guinness World Records on Thursday told Frenchman Richard Plaud that his 7.2 meter (23.6 feet) matchstick Eiffel Tower was a record height, a day after rejecting it for using the wrong matches. Plaud ...

A council worker who spent eight years building a 23ft matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower saw his dreams of a Guinness World Record go up in smoke when the bid was rejected on a technicality.

Mumbai: The massive at Goregaon's Jai Bhavani building, which claimed eight lives and injured more than 60 people, might have erupted due to a lit matchstick or cigarette, said sources, adding that ...

A former banker has dedicated his retirement to creating replica matchstick models of Ayrshire buildings. In June, Jim Miller completed his 100th creation and his 101st is ready to be handed over in ...