World’s oldest man dies at 113 in Japan

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - British and American varsities dominated a list of the worlds 100 best universities published Thursday but more institutions from southeast Asia made their way into it. The number of universities from southeast Asian countries - Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, China and Singapore - increased from 14 to 16 in the QS/Times Higher Education rankings, with the University of Tokyo the highest ranked Asian institution at 22.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - World's oldest man Walter Breuning celebrated his 113th birthday on September 21. The American supercentenarian blew the candles and gave a brief talk at the Rainbow Retirement Community in Great Falls, Montana.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - The world's oldest person has died at the age of 115. According to doctors, Gertrude Baines may have suffered a heart attack.n autopsy will be conducted to confirm the cause.

September 10th, 2009 Japan's century club swells to more than 40,000TOKYO — The number of Japanese centenarians has doubled in the past six years to a record high of more than 40,000, with women dominating the list of those whose lives have spanned more than a century, the government said Friday. Japan will have 40,399 people aged 100 or older this month, surpassing the previous record of 36,276 last year, the Health and Welfare Ministry said in an annual report marking a Sept.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - The world's oldest dog aged 21(147 in dog years) has died of natural causes. Chanel, a wire-haired dachshund, took its last breath at Long Island at her owner's home in Port Jefferson Station, a village 50 miles east of New York City.

August 19th, 2009 Opera singer Behrens dies in TokyoTOKYO — Soprano Hildegard Behrens, one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan. She was 72. Jonathan Friend, artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, said Tuesday in an e-mail to opera officials that Behrens felt unwell while traveling to a festival near Tokyo.

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - Max, the world's oldest dog, living in Louisiana, US, recently celebrated his 26th birthday with a special party. The terrier-cross, who has a veterinary birth certificate to confirm his age, was said to be awaiting the official green signal from Guinness World Records.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - A pot plant, thought to be the oldest in the world, has been re-housed. The huge Jurassic cycad, Encephalartos altensteninii (i), arrived in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, in 1775.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Henry Allingham, who just last month became the world's oldest living person at 113 years, has died, his nursing home near Brighton City, UK said Saturday. Allingham had gained the status as the planet's oldest living person in June after Tomoji Tanabe of Japan died, also at the age of 113.

July 16th, 2009 LONDON - A woman who became the world's oldest new mother in 2006, when she gave birth to twin boys at the age of 66, has passed away. Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara's brother has revealed that she sided on Saturday, aged 69.

July 7th, 2009 TOKYO - Shards of an Islamic ceramic vase have been excavated at the former site of Heijokyo palace, in Japan, dating back to the 8th century, making it the oldest uncovered in Japan. According to a report in the Asahi Shimbun, the 19 pieces of what is believed to be a vase more than 50 centimeters tall date back to the late eighth century, about 100 years earlier than Islamic ceramics found in Fukuoka Prefecture.

July 6th, 2009 World's oldest Christian Bible digitizedLONDON — The British Library says the surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally. The library says the early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus had been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A cat which is approaching her 28th birthday may soon be declared UK's oldest feline. The cat named Jessie is owned by one Joyce Elliott, 57, of South Shields, Tyne and Wear.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - World's oldest man Henry Allingham attributes his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women". The Brit who has spent 113 years and 14 days on this earth, is presently living at St Dunstan's care home for blind ex-service personnel, in Ovingdean, near Brighton.

June 19th, 2009 Official: World's oldest man dies at 113TOKYO — Tomoji Tanabe, the world's oldest man, died in his sleep at his home in southern Japan on Friday, a city official said. He was 113. "He died peacefully.