a great-grandmother from the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is rushing to be recognized as the world's oldest living person by the Guinness World Records.

After the death of Japan's Tomiko Itooka in December 2024, 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas became the world's oldest living person. New strain in Calif. Get the USA TODAY app Start ...

Brazil's 112-year-old João Marinho Neto has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest man alive following the death on Nov. 25 of Briton John Alfred Tinniswood, who was also 112.

A woman, who claims to be the oldest person alive and says she's just celebrated her 124th birthday, claims the secret to a long life is eating lard. Qiu Chai says she was born on 1 January 1901 ...

A Brazilian nun is now the oldest person alive. Born on May 23, 1908, Tomiko Itooka became Japan's longest-living person in December 2023 following the death of 116-year-old Fusa Tatsumi in ...

Itooka, who became the Guinness World Record holder for oldest living person last year following the death of 117-year-old Spanish-American woman Maria Branyas, was born on May 23, 1908 in Osaka.

Jan. 4 (UPI) --Tomiko Itooka, the woman recognized as the world's oldest living person, has died in Japan at the age of 116. Itooka's death in late December was confirmed by Britain's Guinness ...

The world's oldest living person has been revealed - and she is a 116-year-old nun from Brazil. Sister Inah Canabarro, who was born on 8 June 1908, became the world's oldest person following the ...

29, who died from natural causes. After her death, Japan’s oldest living person became 115-year-old Okagi Hayashi, who lives in the Gifu Prefecture. Lucas celebrated her 110th birthday in 2018 ...