Richards, who finished fourth, was also the first British woman to complete the marathon round-the-world event.
It also set a record for round-the-world flight time at 42 hours and 27 minutes.
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Since it went into service in 1969, the QE2 has made at least 26 round-the-world voyages.
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The 38-year-old is only the third Briton to achieve a podium finish in the non-stop three-month round-the-world race.
The yachtsman was attempting a solo round-the-world voyage when he ran into trouble on Friday, 500 nautical miles off Australia's island state.
The current aircraft HB-SIA is effectively the prototype for the craft that will eventually be used for transoceanic flights and the round-the-world trip.
The 40ft (12m) piece of wreckage was salvaged from the Team Philips super-yacht which was hit by a freak mid-Atlantic storm during a round-the-world race.
In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese navigator, was killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines while on a pioneering round-the-world voyage.
Last year when Fossett made a similar round-the-world attempt, Libya gave Fossett permission at the last minute, after Fossett had already descended and shifted his course.
This was a round-the-world cruise taken by Craig Venter on his yacht, Sorcerer II, which studied the diversity of micro-organisms in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
Later in my journey, it took 22 days on a cargo freighter to get from New Zealand through the Panama Canal and back to Philadelphia, to finish my round-the-world adventure.
MacArthur smashed Frenchman Francis Joyon's solo round-the-world record in 2005.
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Ten years ago the only large yachts capable of such speeds were Whitbread round-the-world racers crewed by 12 burly sailors and even then only while surfing down a giant wave in a gale.
Yet despite an utter lack of funds on my round-the-world adventure, I suddenly had an unexpected delay in Paris, forced to stay there for three months as I waited for my visa to arrive for India.
Almost a decade later, those trains were a huge part of why I gave notice at my law firm to do a round-the-world trip, but over the years, my fantasy trip to Siberia had morphed into a trip to... everywhere.
For someone who had never gone faster than 8 knots on a sailboat, watching him and his crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-World Race blaze through the Southern Ocean on the 90-foot Steinlager II was nothing short of incredible.
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For the chapter "Guilty Pleasures of the Golden Arches: Mapping McDonald's in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel", they mined dozens of travel blogs written by Westerners who felt conflicted as they ate their unusual Maharaja Mac with their familiar French fries.
For a trip to the U.S. and Europe I'm taking next month, I tried making bookings three separate ways -- through my regular agent in Hong Kong, by consulting a round-the-world specialist in San Francisco I found on the Web, and by myself online.
Thankfully, there have been happier stories that she's been sent to report on for Breakfast - Ellen MacArthur's return after breaking the round-the-world record, when London was given the 2012 Olympics, the heart-warming recovery of Danny Biddle, who nearly died in the July 7 bombings, returning to hospital to thank staff for saving his life.
The 39-year-old from England, who has suffered nearly 20 lung collapses due to a condition known as Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), is part of a multinational crew taking part in the bi-annual Clipper Round the World Yacht Race -- the only sailing race in the world where crews are made up by ordinary people, many with little or no sailing experience.
Mr Goss became a global hero when he turned back in a southern ocean hurricane to rescue fellow competitor Raphael Dinelli in the 1996-97 Vende Globe round the world single-handed race.
Organisers of Wales Rally GB - the British round of the FIA World Rally Championship - described him as a "rising star".
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They took up the roles after the team's first-round elimination in the 2007 one-day World Cup.
After a decent clay-court season, she lost 6-3, 6-2 in the first round to former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, who ended a five-match losing streak.
In both instances, the Met Office failed to predict the movements of the jet stream - the high-level wind that races round the world 10km above the surface.
With more than 18, 000 miles on the clock, Roy Hodgson's men have effectively travelled three-quarters of the way round the world to reach the Europa League semi-finals and the journey has not been without its pitfalls.
As well as being Olympic team pursuit champion, Clancy won gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Denmark last year, and he also picked up the men's omnium - the "pentathlon" of cycling - in the second round of the World Cup in Cali, Colombia.
After two weeks of mind-numbing debate, including two final days of round-the-clock haggling, world leaders have reached a deal at the U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
But the underperformance of so many of the world's soccer powers--pre-tournament co-favorites Argentina and Italy, defending champion France and dark-horse favorite Portugal were all eliminated in the first round--diminished the tournament as a showcase of the world's top footballing talent.
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