World Record Chocolate bar in Armenia

Chocoholics read on! the world's largest bar of chocolate has been created in Armenia.

Called Grand Candy, it measured more than five metres long and took three days to make. It weighed in at a massive four tonnes and 410kg.

The bar gave Armenia its first Guinness world record and led to a huge celebration. Afterwards, the chocolate was cut into pieces and shared out among the public.

Statisticians reckon one Armenian eats 40kg of chocolate a year and it would take 107 years for someone to have eaten the giant bar.

The previous record was held by Italy.

Twitter marathon raises money for island autism charity

A Southampton Twitter user has completed 60 hours tweeting non-stop in aid of charity.

Gray Collins, 37, started his "tweetathon" at 1200 BST on Monday and kept micro-blogging until midnight on Wednesday.

His tweets, under the name "diaryofaledger", were followed by more than 2,000 people by the end of the session.

Over £5,500 was pledged to the Isle of Wight branch of the Autism Society.

Mr Collins constantly updated his feed from his home in Woolston. He posted 2,447 times during the 60 hours and received about 11,000 mentions on the social networking site.

Mr Collins was born on the Isle of Wight. The money raised is going to the island's branch of the National Autistic Society as both of his sister's children are affected by the condition.

He added: "I get to see first hand how much hard work that can be for the families involved during my visits back to the island."

"The Isle of Wight branch does great work in supporting these families but needs help to be able to make a difference to those affected by autism on the island."

Last year Mr Collins successfully completed a 48-hour tweetathon which he described as an "incredible experience".

England Women win hockey Bronze

England's women defeated South Africa 1-0 to win hockey bronze on day 10 at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Georgie Twigg's 13th minute goal proved enough for England with Kerry Williams also going close in the 50th minute.

Twigg deflected Crista Cullen's cross into the net but England were also thankful to keeper Beth Storry for producing a fine save before the break.

Williams had a chance of sealing victory but she fired straight at the South Africa keeper when one on one.

Storry was also called into action late on while England forward Alex Danson wasted a golden opportunity to double their lead, firing wide from close range, with Hannah Macleod also denied by the South Africa keeper.

For England the result went some way to easing the heartbreak of Monday's 1-0 semi-final loss to Australia.

It was the second bronze in a row for England, the world number five, having finished third in the 2006 Melbourne Games.

"I am thrilled to score that goal," said Twigg. "They fought hard but we were solid in our defence. We are pleased to come away with the bronze in the end.

"It was disappointing to lose the semi-final (against Australia) but we had to move on and focus on winning today's game. We knew we would have to work hard for it in this heat. We now know how hard we can push ourselves."

Australia reach Commonwealth Games men's hockey final

Australia secured their place in the men's hockey final as they resisted a late New Zealand comeback to beat the Kiwis 6-2 in Delhi.

Three goals in six minutes, from Simon Orchard, Glenn Turner and Jason Wilson put the world champions in control.

Des Abbott made it 4-0 before Blair Hilton and Phil Burrows raised Kiwi hopes, only for Turner and Orchard to make sure of the win.

England and India meet in the second semi-final at 1300 BST on Tuesday.

Australia have not lost a match at the Commonwealth Games since hockey was introduced in 1998 and asserted their dominance early on with three penalty corners, all saved by Kyle Pontifex.

But Orchard found a way past him on 25 minutes, and three minutes later Turner cut in from the left to smack home a second.

Turner then turned provider, setting up Wilson for the third.

Abbott further extended the advantage after the break before the Black Sticks, who coped with the heat by wearing ice vests during half-time, struck back through Hilton and captain Phil Burrows.

But Australia slammed the door shut on any hopes of a late comeback with further goals by Turner and Orchard ensuring their maintained their 100% Games record.