World's Tallest Man

World’s tallest man: Leonid Stadnyk, left, at 2.58 meter tall, named as the world’s tallest man, stands next to Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko in Kiev, Monday. Stadnyk received a car as a present from the president./

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A BIg Fish

Senior Bush’s largest fish: Former U.S. President George H.W.Bush, left, displays a tarpon he caught and released, while fishing with George Wood, off the Florida Keys near Islamorada, Fla., Saturday./

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108th Birthday

108th birthday in Havana: Mary McCarthy blows out the candles on her 108th birthday cake with the help of her godson Elio Garcia at their home in Havana, Sunday. Despite being wheelchair bound, she still dresses up in a satin dress and with red lipstick coloring her wrinkled face. Her jewelry, though, are plastic while her real jewelry and the small fortune she inherited when she was widowed in 1951 have been frozen in a Boston bank since the U.S. placed Cuba under sanctions after Fidel Castro’s leftist revolution in 1959./

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Breath Holding Record

Breath-holding record: Magician David Blaine is helped out of a water-filled sphere where he set a new world record for breath-holding at 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds during a live telecast of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago, Wednesday. He looked relaxed and said the record was “a lifelong dream.” The previous record was 16 minutes and 32 seconds, set Feb. 10 by Switzerland’s Peter Colat, according to Guinness World Records. Before he entered the sphere, Blaine inhaled pure oxygen through a mask to saturate his blood with oxygen and flush out carbon dioxide. Guinness says up to 30 minutes of so-called “oxygen hyperventilation” is allowed under their guidelines. Next, Blaine said he plans to try to break the world record for staying awake./ AP-Yonhap

Boat Race in Venice

Boat race in Venice: Rowers take part in the Vogalonga, or long row, in the waters round the Adriatic city of Venice, Sunday. The annual boating event features a 30-kilometer course starting at St. Mark’s Square./

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Honorara Pilot

Honorary pilot: South Korea’s first astronaut Yi So-yeon, right, smiles after wearing a red scarf, the symbol of the South Korean Air Force, presented by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kim Eun-ki during a ceremony marking her successful space mission aboard a Russian spaceship last month held at the Gyeryongdae military compound in South Chungcheong Province, Wednesday. Yi was appointed as honorary pilot of the Air Force./

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Heavy rains pound Hong Kong, cause floods, landslides

Hong Kong has been left with flooded streets and landslides after being hit by torrential rain on Saturday.

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