Salman’s fan paints his portrait in zero-gravity

Salman Khan has often made paintings of his close industry friends and gifted it to them. But for a change here is a woman who has painted Salman Khan. And this is no common painting since it has been done in space in zero-gravity conditions. The lady who has managed this rare feat is Ankita Joshi who thus becomes the first woman in the world to paint in zero-gravity and Salman Khan happens to be the first personality being painted in space.

Ankita’s fascination for Salman Khan goes back a long way and when she had a chance to paint in zero-gravity she decided to paint Salman in his popular ‘Chulbul Pandey’ avatar from Dabangg. She has even applied to the Guinness Book of World Records for her exceptional feat.

Wonder what Sallu’s reaction would be when he hears of this rare feat by a die-hard fan of his?

Gul, Yaisr included in Guinness Book of World

Omer Gul, Yaisr Arafat honoured Pakistani fast bowler Omer Gul and all rounder Yasir Arafats names were included in Guinness Book of World records.

According to sources, fast bowler Omer Gul name was added in the book keeping in view his performance in T-20 matches especially a match was played against New Zeeland, in which Omer Gul got six wickets and he was declared as the man of match. While Yasir Arafat has got ninety wickets during sixty one T-20 matches.

World’s tallest couple hopes for reality TV fame

LOS ANGELES: An American bride and groom have been officially recognised as the world’s tallest living married couple.

Wayne and Laurie Hallquist from California both stand out from the crowd – she is almost 2m tall (6ft 5in) and he measures a towering 2.07m.

At a ceremony at the Guinness World Records Museum to mark Guinness World Records Day, the couple greeted a crush of fans and photographers.

In an interview before the ceremony, the couple talked about what it’s like to be the twin towers of love.

“When we got married in 2003,” Wayne said, “as sort of a joke, we looked up who the tallest couple ever was and learned that in the 1870s, there had been a married couple where the husband was 7-foot-5 and the wife was 7foot-3. So we gave up on that.

“But then some family members discovered that we could submit our names for the record of

Nepali teen becomes world’s shortest man at 67 cm

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s little Khagendra Thapa Magar has a big ambition. Magar measures 67.08 centimetres (26.4 inches), weighs 6.5 kilos (14 pounds) and was proclaimed the world’s shortest living man by the Guinness World Records in the same week he celebrated his eighteenth birthday.

Now, “he wants to become a doctor and marry a tall and beautiful girl,” Min Bahadur Rana, the chief of a charity that pushed Magar’s claim to the title, told Reuters.

Magar stopped growing after the age of 11 and his arrested growth has mystified doctors. His family and friends have campaigned for the title of shortest man for four years, hoping it would bring in funds for his education and healthcare.

His previous claim was rejected on the grounds he was too young and could still grow. He has replaced Edward Nino Hernandez of Colombia, who is 27 inches (70 cm) tall, as the world’s

SAMAA highlights plight of Pakistan’s tallest woman

Staff Report

FAISALABAD: Pakistan’s tallest woman, who also has the distinction of being the world’s second tallest lady, is selling ‘pokaras’ in Faisalabad to make both ends meet.

Thirty-five-year old Zainab Bibi, who is 230cm (7’4′ inches) tall, rose to fame after her name was published in the Guinness Book of World Record.

Due to poverty and unemployment, she is compelled to sell ‘pokaras’ to look after her family.

Taking notice of SAMAA report about her plight, the Punjab government has decided to provide a monthly remuneration to the country’s tallest lady. SAMAA

Lance Naik Jameel sets world record of tree plantations

Staff Report

KARACHI: A Pakistan Army jawan has set a new world record of planting the most number of trees in a single day. Mian Yousuf Jameel, Lance Naik, a resident of Wazirabad, planted 20,100 trees in a single day on Tuesday and booked his name in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The previous record for the most number of trees planted in a day by an individual was held by Ken Chaplin from Canada who planted 15,170 red pine seedlings in one day near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada on June 30, 2001.

In July 2009, Pakistan had already received a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records in acknowledgment of planting as many as 541,176 mangrove trees in one day on 800 acres of land at Keti Bunder, District Thatta. SAMAA

PacMan marks 30th birthday

Its been 30 years since the introduction of the arcade classic PacMan, a game that became an icon of the 1980s and succeeded in bringing videogames to new segments of players.
The PacMan game, created by a Japanese company called Namco, was originally titled Puck Man when it was released in Japan in May of 1980. The character does look more like a hockey puck.
It became such a phenomenon that PacMan is now the most recognizable videogame character and is known by 94% of American consumers, according to the Guinness World Records Gamers Edition.

The Helen Wagner American Actress

Helen Wagner September 3, 1918, 1 May 2010 was an American actress. Wagner died on May 1, 2010 at the age of 91, she is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest character played by an actor on television. She took a few breaks from the role of both voluntary and involuntary.

“The Philco Television Playhouse”, and a series called “The World of Mr. Sweeney.” “I do not like to do, Nancy, in only one extra character at parties, she says.” She is a dynamic person to be a ghost. “As the world turns star Helen Wagner, who in 54 years played matriarch Nancy Hughes on the soap opera , died yesterday.

She later met and married Dan McClosky. After McLaughlin in 1986, Nancy was a widow. Helen Wagner has played the role of Nancy Hughes on day drama As The World Turns when it premiered on CBS in Thurs April 1956th After his debut in the role of a queen in an adventure that General Electric has produced on its experimental station in Schenectady.

Helen Wagner National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Wagner played Hughes on “As The World Turns” is only a few breaks when the show debuted in 1956. She held the Guinness World Record for playing the same role on TV for the longest time, 54 years, “says Telecom Next Media. She said: “Oh, Nancy, I have loved you so long I really have to kiss you again,” but at the time, I managed to escape, “Wagner recalled.

4 missing US miners dead; final toll at 29

MONTCOAL: Authorities said crews have found the bodies of four miners missing nearly a week since an explosion at a West Virginia coal mine, bringing the death toll to 29.

Officials said the mission now is to recover all 22 bodies still inside the Upper Big Branch mine 30 miles of Charleston.

The new deaths mean it is the worst coal mine disaster in the U.S. since 1970 when 38 were killed at Finley Coal Co. in Hyden, Kentucky.

Authorities said early Saturday that they will start bringing out the bodies so they can be identified. Seven bodies were recovered soon after Monday”s blast. The first funerals were held on Friday.

Pope cautious about defrocking abusive priest: letters

LOS ANGELES: Future Pope Benedict XVI was reluctant to defrock a California priest in the 1980s accused of sexually abusing children, correspondence released by lawyers for the victims appeared to show on Friday.

A series of letters released by attorney Jeff Anderson showed repeated misgivings concerning the conduct of priest Stephen Kiesle raised by senior officials from the Oakland diocese during the early 1980s.

In a letter sent by Oakland Bishop John Cummins to the Vatican in June 1981, he petitioned authorities to defrock Kiesle, citing a 1978 court case where he had pleaded no contest to abusing six children aged between 11 and 13.

A further letter sent by Cummins in February 1982 to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — who at the time was responsible for enforcing Roman Catholic doctrine — again urged Kiesle to be defrocked.

“It is my conviction that there would be no scandal if this petition were granted,” Cummins wrote, warning there “might be greater scandal to the community if Father Kiesle were allowed to return to the active ministry.”

An additional request for action against Kiesle was sent in September 1982, only to receive a “rather curt” reply that the matter “would be examined at an opportune time” according to internal correspondence in the Oakland diocese.

By 1985 — four years after the initial letter — Oakland diocese officials were still awaiting word from the Vatican over the status of the petition requesting Kiesle”s defrocking.

Eventually, Ratzinger replies to Cummins in a letter written in Latin dated November 15, 1985.

While Ratzinger admits the “gravity” of Kiesle”s case, he states he is reluctant to take action immediately because he needs to consider the effect it will have on the “good of the Universal Church.”

Ratzinger informs Cummins that Kiesle”s case must be submitted to “careful consideration, which will take a longer period than usual.”

In response, Oakland Diocese reverend George Mockel tells Cummins he believes the Vatican officials “are going to sit on” the case “until (Kiesle) gets quite a bit older.”

“My own feeling is that this is unfortunate,” Mockel writes.

Kiesle was eventually defrocked in 1987. He later worked as a youth co-ordinator at a parish in Pinole, northern California for eight months, a statement released by Anderson said.

Ratzinger went on to become Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.

Large-scale pedophilia scandals have rocked the churches of Ireland, Austria, the United States and the pope”s native Germany in recent months.

The 82-year-old pontiff has himself faced allegations that he failed to take action against predator priests when he served as the Vatican”s watchdog for morals and doctrinal issues and earlier as the archbishop of Munich.

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