World's oldest human reveals secret - breathing!

A 113-year-old Dutch woman has become the oldest registered living person after the previous title holder died in Puerto Rico.

World's oldest human reveals secret - breathing!

A 113-year-old Dutch woman has become the oldest registered living person after the previous title holder died in Puerto Rico.

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper assumed the title when Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan died at the weekend of pneumonia, aged 114, the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group confirmed.

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