Tokyo: The world's oldest person has died nearly a month after celebrating her 117th birthday. Her nursing home says Misao Okawa died of heart failure early Wednesday. Okawa, born in Osaka on ...

Misao Okawa of Japan, has nearly doubled that as she heads toward her 117th birthday in March. Okawa was born in Osaka, Japan in 1898 and became the oldest person in the world when another ...