The average life expectancy around the world is 71 years, though this varies greatly due to region and country. However, imagine outliving your expected age by not one decade, but rather 5 decades!

Madame Jeanne Calment is the longest living human in history. She was 122 years, 164 days old before she died in 1997. Many have wondered what Jeanne’s secret was, that allowed her to live such a long ...

WASHINGTON - When she turned 120 years old in 1995, plucky Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment was asked what type of future she expected. "A very short one," she replied. But Calment lived two more years, ...

Jeanne Calment, a French woman, achieved an incredible feat of living to age 122, thus earning the honor of being the world's oldest person on record. But before her passing, Calment met and discussed ...

A record held by a Frenchwoman as the world's longest living person could be fraudulent and involve an identity swap, Russian researchers have claimed in a report that has sparked widespread ...

Everyone loves a bargain, a bit of financial good fortune to the buyer’s advantage. When it’s exceptionally good, we call it the deal of a lifetime. Sixty years ago, a lawyer made an arrangement that ...

The bad news for Jeanne Calment was that she took a terrible tumble during her regular bike ride and broke her leg. The good news was that she was 100 years old at the time and still took regular bike ...