When Maria Branyas Morera died in August 2024 at the age of 117, she left behind more than just a legacy as the world’s ...

A study of a woman who died in 2024 as the oldest person on Earth attempts to untangle the factors that enable some people to ...

According to the World Population Review, Iran is the oldest nation in the world based on the date of the earliest known evidence of an organized government. Determining a country's exact age is ...

The oldest verified person in the world is a woman who lived to the incredible age of of 122 years and 164 days before passing away on August 4, 1997. Jeanne Calment was born in Arles ...

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. Yoshitsugu Nagata ...

When an employee told her on Aug. 21 that she is set to be recognized as the world’s oldest living person, Itooka replied in a steady voice, “Thank you,” according to the nursing home.

Japan has the oldest population in the world. Some senior citizens in Japan are intentionally committing petty crimes because they view life in jail as better than life outside, reports Bloomberg.