World's tallest man becomes world's tallest dad

The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, 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.

Bao's son measured 22 inches (56 centimetres) long at birth, the senior doctor at Zunhua Hospital in Hebei province told Reuters. "Bao is quite happy. The baby is healthy and a normal size," the hospital's senior doctor Zhang told Reuters. Bao, a 7-foot-9-inch (2.36 metres) herdsman from Inner Mongolia, last year married Xia Shujuan, a pygmy by contrast at 5-foot-6 inches(1.68 metres). (Reuters)