Norfolk, Virginia deputy sheriff George Bell, at a height of 2. 33 meters (7 feet 8 inches), is the tallest man in the United States and by Thursday, he will have a Guinness World Records certificate to prove it. Although shorter than Ukraine's 2. 57-meter (8 feet and 5. 5 inches) Leonid Stadnyk, the world's tallest, he towers over basketball giant Yao Ming. The 50-year-old police offer wears size 19 shoes and pants with 1. 09-meter (43-inch) waistline.

Bananas reportedly washed up by the thousands on two Dutch North Sea islands Wednesday, as caused by six containers that fell from a cargo ship caught in a storm. The bananas were said to have come in ten crates, from the ship Duncan Island.

A woman died after jumping from the rooftop of a department store in Tokyo. A passer-by was knocked unconscious after breaking the woman's fall, authorities said Tuesday. Local Police Spokesman Tetsuhiko Kanehara said they responded immediately to the scene after phone-calls from other passers-by, finding the man and woman collapsed and bleeding on the street infront of the Ikebukuro Parco Department Store in Tokyo's Toshima-ku at around 1 p. m. on Tuesday.

Just days before their match against Romania, the Russian national rugby team are scrambling to for spare shoes after thieves reportedly stole have stolen several of their players' boots and other sporting gears. According to the payers of the Russian team, nine pairs of boots and other gear disappeared from the team's hotel in Bucharest during a power cut.

After catching a burglar near their house last Friday, Jeffrey Stephens decided to sit on him while waiting for the police to arrive. Stephens reportedly caught the burglar at a neighbor's house, going through the house owner's van at around 3:30 a. m.