It was only this week that Colombia's pint-sized Edward Nino was on top of the world, named the Guinness Book's smallest man on the planet. Now a tiny Nepalese teen is about to torpedo his low-rise glory.

Nino, 24, stands 70.21 cm (27.64 in) small, and lives at home with his mother in a humble house on Bogota's south end. His ambitions are anything but humble; Nino dreams of travelling to India, Japan, China, the United States and Spain, and of making it big as an actor.