I wonder how to pronounce Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

He Pingping (right), 19, a 0.73 metre (2 feet, 5 inches) man, shakes hands with world’s tallest man Bao Xishun (left) in Baotou, China. He is applying for the Guinness World Record as the world’s shortest man. [TOI]

Few are dying to get their hands on the Apple iphone and few want to blend it. Well that’s how life is!

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At 4pm on May 25, a video was posted on the Internet. In this video, there were more than 20 students in a classroom for a geography lesson. The students were napping, talking, horsing around and one of them was roaming around filming. One student said: “This is the geography lesson. Watch the show.” Then he walked up to the teacher and removed the teacher’s white hat. The class roared in laughter. Later, that student went up to the teacher and made for a physical confrontation. Another student threw a water bottle at the teacher while the first student yelled: “That stupid c*nt! Kill him!” The teacher just kept on with his lecture. The video was apparently posted by a female student in the class. Within three hours, there were 5,000 visits and 100 angry comments. The video was deleted at 7pm, but it has already been copied and distributed across the Intenet.

I don’t think I have read so many ‘weird’ news dealing with India on the same day.

1. Lost 81 times, ready to take on PM- Having contested against President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, his predecessor K.R. Narayanan, former prime ministers P.V. Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, Padmarajan found place in the Limca Book of Records in 2003 for losing 57 elections in various categories.

He added that challenging VVIPs was a passion for him, and hoped contesting his 82nd election against the Prime Minister would help him find a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.[HT]