7 h. ago The world's tallest sunflower blooms in an Indiana backyard as a tribute to Ukraine

When Alex Babich looks up at the 35-foot sunflower towering over his Fort Wayne, Indiana, backyard, he sees more than just a plant

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63 h. ago Wildfire tears through grove of ancient giant trees in California’s Sierra National Forest

The sequoia is the world’s largest tree by volume and closely related to the redwood, the world’s tallest

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer looks like a schoolboy as 'world's tallest leader' towers over him on UK trip

Keir Starmer sits in the middle of the pack when it comes to the height of he G20 world leaders, but he looked very, very small when he came up against his Spanish counterpart

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2 w. ago Florida cities race to save rainbow crosswalks as the state's deadlines for removal loom

An emergency meeting is planned for Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale as that city and others across Florida are facing state orders to remove rainbow crosswalks by early next month

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2 w. ago Guinness Book of Records where daring exploits led to trailblazers' deaths

Many stories of some of its heroic record breakers have ended in tragedy from tallest man in the world to lightning strike to incredible jump on the edge of Space

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2 w. ago A typhoon, a fish market and the world’s tallest bridge: photos of the day – Monday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The leaning tower of NYC: 670ft unfinished skyscraper that is 'shaped like a banana' and the terrifying prediction for downtown Manhattan

Manhattan, New York famously plays host to some of the world's tallest and most recognisable buildings, from the Empire State Building to Rockefeller Plaza.

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3 w. ago Race to save one of the world’s tallest trees following fire

Emergency services are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast

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3 w. ago A fire is burning one of the world's tallest trees near the Oregon coast

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast

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3 w. ago Race to save woman stuck 22,000ft up Victory Peak with broken leg and no food

Avid thrill seeker Natalia Nagovitsina has been stuck up Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan for about a week after she suffered a significant injury and needed a sleeping bag to be delivered to her

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3 w. ago ‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened

It looks like medieval torture, from the metal rods inserted into sawn bones to the months of agonising recovery. But to some, travelling to Turkey to gain a few inches is a (very high) price worth payingIt was on his honeymoon in Kuala Lumpur, looking out of his hotel window at the silvery points of the world’s tallest twin skyscrapers, that Frank decided it was time to become taller. He had recently confessed to his new wife how much his height had bothered him since he was a teenager. As a man dedicated to self-improvement, Frank wanted to take action. He picked up the phone, called a clinic in Turkey that specialises in leg lengthening surgery – and made a booking.“I had a lot of second thoughts – at the end of the day, someone’s going to break your legs,” he says, propped up on a hotel bed in Istanbul, his legs splayed in front of him, bracketed by a brace on each thigh. His wife, Emilia, tends to him, fetching painkillers and ice packs for the wound sites where the braces punc...

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3 w. ago The race to save Thorpeness cliffs: Row of £1million luxury homes facing falling into the North Sea without action

Coastal erosion in the up-market seaside village of Thorpeness in Suffolk is getting worse by the day despite attempts to shore up the sandy cliffs to protect more than a dozen properties from the waves.

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4 w. ago Glasgow Cineworld closing date set as staff to be made redundant

The closing date of the world's tallest cinema on Glasgow's Renfrew Street has been set.

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4 w. ago At least 56 feared dead after flash flood devastates remote Himalayan village

Race against time to save 80 people still missing after flood sweeps away dozens of cars and motorbikes

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4 w. ago K2 climber killed by rockfall while descending from world’s second tallest mountain

Guan Jing had reached the summit just a day earlier

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