Maria Branyas Morera, the oldest known woman in the world, has died at the age of 117 in Spain. Born in San Francisco a year after the Great Quake of 1906, the supercentenarian died peacefully and ...

A Chinese woman said to be the oldest in the world has died aged 122. Lin Shemu, from Fujian province, passed away peacefully in her sleep at home on January 1. Her birthday was listed on official ...

Ms Raghavan is fondly known as Meenakshi Amma - Amma means mother in the Malayalam language - in Kerala's Vadakara, where she ...

According to the Guinness Book of World Records ... she inadvertently became the purported oldest person ever. (If these critics are right, the woman who died in 1997 was actually only 99.) ...

A Chicago woman is now the oldest parachutist in the world! Dorothy Hoffner, 104, became the oldest person to skydive on Sunday, according to the Chicago Tribune, which documented the moment.

A documentary on her life, titled Beyond 120 Years with Jeanne Calment, was released in 1995 The average life expectancy around the world ... woman, named Jeanne Calment, holds the record for the ...

The oldest woman to sail solo around the world, Jeanne Socrates, still spends most of her days on the ocean with just birds and dolphins for company.

The vicinity of the world's oldest golf course, The Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, has seen house prices skyrocket ...

Lindsey Vonn is smashing her sports comeback! The Olympian, 40, broke the record as the oldest woman to have a podium finish at a World Cup after placing second in the Super-G race at the Audi FIS ...

Forest, 90, is performing her one-woman show, "90 Years of Songs and Scandal," as part of the New York City Fringe Festival.