France's Sister Andre, also known as Lucile Randon, has become the world's oldest person following the death of Japan's Kane Tanaka.
Andre also became the oldest person in Europe after she recently celebrated her 117th birthday.
Born in 1904, Andre has now lived through two global health crisis as she was a teenager when the Spanish flu struck in 1918.
The world's oldest person from the Japanese city of Fukuoka died at the age of 119 on April 19, close short of turning 120. She spent her later years in a Fukuoka nursing home and died of old age at a hospital in her hometown in southern Japan where she spent all her life, city officials said. With Tanaka's death, the world's oldest person now is Lucile Randon, a nun from