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This September, world leaders will come together for the Summit of the Future at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The gathering represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity on the Earth.

The Summit comes at a time when the world is facing increasing fragmentation. Across the globe, leaders are being called to rebuild trust in multilateral institutions and reinvigorate a sense of global solidarity. From new approaches to peace, to a better digital world, to reform of the global financial system, the high-level Summit will seek to secure international consensus on how leaders deliver a better present while putting in place the necessary framework to safeguard the future. The envisioned outcome of the Summit will be the Pact for the Future, which is currently being negotiated, and expected to be endorsed by countries ahead of the Summit.

In the lead up to the Summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed the need to identify innovative ways to address the challenges of tomorrow. “We can’t build a future for our grandchildren with a system built by our grandparents,” the Secretary-General said, urging leaders to be courageous in their quest to find solutions.

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The tallest man recorded in the World History is Robert Wadlow, measured at 8’ 11” feets, weighed 491 pounds, and wore size 36 shoe. He was listed in the Book of Records. His hands were about thirteen inches from the wrist to top of the middle finger and his shoes length were 37AA (eighteen inches) long. Mr. Wadlow was still growing when he died. In kindergarten he was 5'6'' tall, wearing clothing that would fit a 17-year-old boy. In 1929 he had his first medical checkup where the family was told that the boy had an over active pituitary gland. In 1931 he was the largest Boy Scout in the world at 7'4" weighing 270 pounds. The "Gentle Giant" died July 15, 1940.

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Despite international condemnation, Putin signs decrees declaring four regions of Ukraine part of Russia. The referendum’s results, which have been rejected by much of the international community, showed large majorities of each territory — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — voting to join the Russian Federation. The regions, making up the country’s eastern and southern flanks, form roughly 18% of Ukraine’s territory.