Fame awaits world shortest man

The 72-year-old Nepali, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, claims to stand at just 56 centimetres, the shortest man in history.
Until now, Junrey Balawing from the Philippines has held the title of the world's smallest living man with a height of 59.93cm.
Guinness World Records experts confirmed last week they are to travel to Dangi's village in the impoverished south-western valleys of Dang district to measure the pensioner, who says he weighs just 12 kilos. If his measurements prove correct, he would be smaller than Mr Balawing but would also be the shortest human adult ever documented
Dangi told AFP in his first interview with Western media that recognition at the end of his life would be some compensation for years of hardship he has had to endure.
"I think things will be better now. I hope that I will be famous all over the world," Dangi said at a religious festival in Surunga, a town on the banks of the sacred Kankai river 280km southeast of Kathmandu.
"I want to visit foreign countries and meet people from around the world."