Forty years ago today, on July 29, 1985, the site for the Robert Pershing Wadlow Statue in Upper Alton was officially staked ...

The world's tallest teenager is trying his hand — his reach, really — at football. Florida basketball player Olivier Rioux, a ...

Wadlow had been reported ill in a hotel in Manistee with an infected foot.

The world's tallest man became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum.

World's tallest man can't stop growing, undergoes surgery. Aug. 19, 2010 — -- Sultan Kosen wants what many other 27-year-old men want in life -- to meet a wonderful woman, settle down and ...

5. Tallest Structure Ever Built: Burj Khalifa The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest man-made structure in the world, a skyscraper standing at 2,717 feet (828 meters).

Florida basketball's towering 7-foot-9 center Olivier Rioux, the tallest teen in the world, practiced with the Florida ...