Maria Esther de Capovilla

VERBANIA, Italy — Italy's Emma Morano, the world's oldest living person, marked her 117th birthday Tuesday, blowing out all the candles on her cake. Beaming at the attention, Morano took in the festivities for her milestone celebration sitting in an armchair in her one-room apartment in the northern town of ...

In one month it will be Emma Morano's birthday. Though she hasn't invited anyone, people from around the world are still likely to turn up to celebrate with the last known person alive to have been born in the 19th century. "I'm 116 years and on 27 November, I'll be 117," this alert and chatty lady tells AFP in ...

A 90-year-old woman is going to school to learn skills that she never had the opportunity to acquire when she was younger. Priscilla Sitienei has been attending Leaders Vision Preparatory School in her village of Ndalat, Kenya, for the past five years according to BBC News. Sitienei didn't have the chance ...

A Long Island, N.Y., woman turned 102 years old last week, and she celebrated the big day with a meal at one of her favorite local dining establishments: White Castle. As part of the celebration, Madeleine Turpan was inducted by the fast food chain into its Craver's Hall of Fame. “She credited her longevity ...

On Sunday, the world's oldest man, Alexander Imich, passed away in New York at the age of 111. Imich, who had immigrated to the United States in 1951 after having fled from Eastern Europe during the Holocaust, died in a senior residence in Manhattan. Imlich had been certified as the oldest man in April ...

A Harley St plastic surgeon plans to sell an anti-ageing drug. But do you want to live forever, or perhaps to the ripe old age of 1,000? There was a time when beating biology to become immortal was the stuff of dreams. Dr Jeya Prakash claims he has reversed the ageing process by injecting himself and his ...

A lady whose diet of donkey milk helped her become the world's oldest woman has died aged 116 in Ecuador. As a young woman, she drank fresh milk from the donkeys at her aunt's farm - something her family believe helped her live for so long. Maria Esther de Capovilla - born in 1889 - died on Sunday ...

Maria Esther de Capovilla, the oldest person on Earth, according to Guinness World Records, has died at 116 years of age, her granddaughter said. Catherine Capovilla, 46, a property manager and real estate agent in Miami, said Capovilla died Sunday at 3 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) in a hospital in the ...

Maria Esther de Capovilla - officially the world's oldest woman - has died in Ecuador aged 116, relatives said. Capovilla died at dawn on Sunday in the coastal city of Guayaquil after succumbing to pneumonia. Her funeral was planned for Monday. Born in 1889, the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolf ...

Mrs Morrison was among the first people to cross the Sound of Scalpay without the aid of a boat when the £6.4m Scalpay Bridge opened in December 1997. She rode in the first of a convoy of cars that crossed the bridge to Harris. Guinness Book of Records lists 116-year-old Maria Esther de Capovilla, from ...

VERBANIA, Italy — Italy's Emma Morano, the world's oldest living person, marked her 117th birthday Tuesday, blowing out all the candles on ...

In one month it will be Emma Morano's birthday. Though she hasn't invited anyone, people from around the world are still likely to turn up to ...

A 90-year-old woman is going to school to learn skills that she never had the opportunity to acquire when she was younger. Priscilla Sitienei ...

A Long Island, N.Y., woman turned 102 years old last week, and she celebrated the big day with a meal at one of her favorite local dining ...

On Sunday, the world's oldest man, Alexander Imich, passed away in New York at the age of 111. Imich, who had immigrated to the United ...

A Harley St plastic surgeon plans to sell an anti-ageing drug. But do you want to live forever, or perhaps to the ripe old age of 1,000? There was ...

Maria Esther de Capovilla - born in 1889 - died on Sunday after getting pneumonia, which is a lung disease. An US woman, Elizabeth Bolden ...

Maria Esther de Capovilla - officially the world's oldest woman - has died in Ecuador aged 116, relatives said. Capovilla died at dawn on ...

Maria Esther de Capovilla, the oldest person on Earth, according to Guinness World Records, has died at 116 years of age, her granddaughter ...

Guinness claims Ecuadorean Maria Esther de Capovilla is the world's oldest living woman at age 116. According to the organization, the ...

Maria Esther de Capovilla talks with reporters at her house in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005. At 100 years old, she became bedridden and so weakened from a stomach ailment that a priest administered last rites.

Maria Esther de Capovilla talks with reporters at her house in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005. At 100 years old, she became bedridden and so weakened from a stomach ailment that a priest administered last rites.

ST. LOUIS (WPIX) - As the police cruiser pulled up to the Five Star Senior Center in South St. Louis, the 102-year-old woman inside was able to check off another item from her bucket list.

A man in Indonesia is claiming to be 145 years old which would make him the oldest living person ever recorded, notes The Independent.

Maria Esther de Capovilla talks with reporters at her house in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005. At 100 years old, she became bedridden and so weakened from a stomach ailment that a priest administered last rites.