The world’s oldest person has dies in a nursing home in Japan at the age of 114, an official said today.

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.

NINTENDO announced yesterday that it will replace 3.2 million straps for its popular Wii computer game controllers after receiving a rash of reports that the device flew out of players’ hands.

A magnitude-5.9 earthquake rocked northern Japan this morning near the area where the country’s deadliest earthquake in a decade struck last month. At least eight people were injured.

A two-year-old boy was rescued today after surviving for four days buried in a landslide from the powerful quake that ravaged northern Japan .