Former Soviet Union basketball star Alexander Sizonenko, who was also Russia's tallest man at 2.45 metres (8ft), has died at the age of 52. Sizonenko died in St Petersburg after a long illness, ...

Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens, whose touring show of flayed human bodies has shocked Germany, has offered a large sum to giant Alexander Sizonenko, the world’s biggest man, the newspaper ...