Meet Chili a black and white Friesian bullock. He is not your every day bull, Chili's height is 6 ft 6 inches and weight over a ton9 years ago when Chili was 6 days old he was left at the doorsteps of the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Chard, Somerset. One day the keepers noticed just how big the bull was when he failed to fit in a standard cattle cage to have his hooves clipped.The keeper refer to Chili as a gentle giant The Guinness Book of Records are currently assessing his credentials and comparing them to other big bovines.

Anandita Dutta Tamuly (26), aims to eat as many Bhut Jolokia peppers as she can.Tamuly says she got hooked on the chillis as a child after her mother smeared chili paste on her tongue to cure an infection.Tamuly, who will attempt to creat a new record in London, added: "I have already created history on Indian television by munching 60 of the chilies in two minutes. I am more than confident of creating a record."The current record was set by South African Anita Crafford, who ate eight jalapenos in a minute in 2002, but Tamuly loves the Bhut Jolokia or "ghost" chili pepper, which is

New fossil evidence shows prehistoric people from southern Peru up to the Bahamas were cultivating varieties of chilies millennia before Columbus' arrival brought the spice to world cuisine. The earliest traces so far are from southwestern Ecuador, where families fired up meals with homegrown peppers about 6,100 years ago.The journal Science reported, that early New World agriculture was more sophisticated than once thought."Some people who have described ancient food ways as being simple will probably have to rethink their ideas because of this work," said lead researcher Linda Perry