At 111, Japan's Tomoji Tanabe is the world's oldest man and has no plans to surrender his title.

Emma Faust Tillman, whose life spanned three centuries and 21 US presidencies, died last night at a nursing home in Hartford, Connecticut, the facility’s administrator said.

THE world’s oldest person, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, died yesterday at his home on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, a relative said. He was 115.

ELIZABETH “Lizzie” Bolden, recognised as the world’s oldest person, has died at 116.

MARIA Esther de Capovilla, the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died in Ecuador aged 116.