ISLAMABAD Mohammad Alam Channa, the Pakistani recognized as tallest man in the world, has died in New York from kidney failure at the age of 45, the official news agency APP reported Friday. Channa, a towering 2.317 metres (just over seven feet and seven inches), died on Thursday, said the agency. He was recognized as the world's tallest man by the Guinness Book of Records in 1982, and he still held the record in the book's latest edition, said APP. The agency said Channa had been offered nationality by several countries, including the United States and Saudi Arabia, but that he refused the offers.

(AFP)