Four-year-old runs 40 miles into record book

Cheered by thousands, a four-year-old Indian boy ran 40 miles today to enter the country’s foremost record book.

Budhia Singh, a slum resident from the eastern Orissa state whose talent was discovered by a local sports coach, was escorted by doctors and 300 paramilitary cadets of the Central Reserve Police Force, which plans to sponsor his upbringing.