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This is Burj Dubai and, once again, the editors of the Guinness Book Of Records have got to rewrite the chapter on buildings.
This is not simply the tallest structure in the world; it smashed the tallest-building record a year ago and, this April, it...
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Craig Glenday, Editor-In-Chief of Guinness World Records renames China’s Bao Xi Shun as the world’s Tallest Living Man. (PRNewsFoto/Guinness World Records)
