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At 38, Gael Monfis becomes the oldest winner of an ATP title by beating Zizou Bergs in New Zealand. French veteran Gael Monfils has become the oldest player to win …

Tomiko Itooka, the world’s oldest person, has died at 116. The title now passes to Inah Canabarro Lucas, a Brazilian nun just 16 days younger than Itooka. Itooka, born on …

Tomiko Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, in central Japan. Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to …

The 22 December annual Christmas lottery began during the Napoleonic wars in 1812 and has continued largely without interruption since then. ADVERTISEMENT Spain’s ‘El Gordo’ lottery has been broadcast with …

The editor-in-chief of Scientific American magazine, Laura Helmuth, has resigned after a series of social media posts denouncing those who voted for US President-elect Donald Trump as “fascists.” Scientific American …

On a cloudless September morning in Buffelsrivier, a desolate corner of Namaqualand some 530km (329 miles) north of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University soil scientists Cathy Clarke and Michele Francis watch …

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map etched in a clay tablet about 3,000 years ago, finding it features the location of ‘Noah’s Ark’ among the drawings. The Babylonian artifact, …

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva).  The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old.  The longevity …

Archaeologists have discovered what is thought to be the world’s oldest calendar. Etched in a 12,000-year-old stone pillar at the mysterious Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey, experts say it could …