Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The oldest person alive was honored on Japan's Respect for the Aged Day. Tomiko Itooka, now 116 years old, ...

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has hit a record high of more than 95,000 -- almost 90 percent of them women ...

At the age of 116, Tomiko Itooka from the western Japanese city of Ashiya officially became the oldest woman in the ...

Today, the life-long Manawatū resident celebrates her 111th birthday with afternoon tea for a small group of family and ...

Because the crime happened in 1980, Hanks was sentenced under the state law in effect at that time, which called for a 5- to ...

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

Tsakonika, the language of ancient Sparta, still survives today, despite the ravages of time and the many reversals of ...

After a long period of uncertainty about the future of Colorado Springs' oldest high school — vexing alumni, currents ...

The UK’s oldest cat has died aged 33 years old at her city home. Rosie passed away the hallway of her owner’s house, in Peckover Road near Eaton Park. A year prior Rosie enjoyed some salmon cake, ...

Former home of the Race Today Collective and squatted by activist and feminist Olive Morris, Brixton Advice Centre has ...