TOKYO — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

TOKYO — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

Beezler, a 32-year-old Asiatic black bear that had lived at Colorado’s Cheyenne Mountain Zoo since she was a cub, was ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

GREAT FALLS - Walter Breuning, the world's oldest man and second-oldest person, died Thursday. He was 114. Breuning died of natural causes in a Great Falls hospital, said Stacia Kirby, ...

Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, the world's oldest person, died at 116 on Wednesday in Porto Alegre, due to multiple organ dysfunction. Born on June 8, 1908, she dedicated her life to ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Kamato Hongo, a Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person, died Friday. She was 116. Born in 1887, Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest by the Guinness ...

A 92-year-old former railway worker has been sentenced to life in a British prison for raping and murdering a woman in 1967.

Bonita Gibson is part of a small population of supercentenarians in the United States, or someone who is at least 110 years ...

The Peoria Zoo's playful patriarch nearly doubled his expected life span, leaving a legacy as a beloved member of the menagerie.

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Northern Ireland’s oldest man has said he never expected to receive an honour from the King at the age of 106. Norman Irwin, who served in north Africa during the Second World War, has been ...