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In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez iis assisted by her granddaughter Martarita Cabrera at her home near the village of Campechuela, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)

Cuban state media say documents indicate woman is 125, perhaps oldest person on Earth

The Canadian Press - Tue Feb 9, 6:01 PM

HAVANA, Cuba - Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

  • File photo shows a couple kissing on the subway in Beijing. Single people in China have come up with an innovative way of pleasing their pushy parents during the annual Lunar New Year holiday -- they are renting fake dates. Photo:Peter Parks/AFP
    Chinese rent dates to appease parents AFP - 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

    BEIJING (AFP) - Single people in China have come up with an innovative way of pleasing their pushy parents during the annual Lunar New Year holiday -- they are renting fake dates.

  • Leading French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy, seen here in April 2009, has been caught red-faced for praising the work of a philosopher who, it turns out, was invented as a joke by a journalist from a satirical daily. Photo:Fabrice Coffrini/AFP
    Famed French intellectual cites bogus 'Botulist' philosopher AFP - Tue Feb 9, 12:35 PM

    PARIS (AFP) - French celebrity intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has been caught red-faced quoting a "Botulist" philosopher who, it turns out, was invented as a joke by a journalist from a satirical weekly.

  • There's only love at new supermarket Reuters - Tue Feb 9, 11:32 AM

    BEIJING, China (Reuters) - For Chinese singles in the market for love this Valentine's day, a Beijing supermarket may offer just what they're looking for.

  • Thief robs arcade with cup of coffee Reuters - Tue Feb 9, 11:32 AM

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A thief in the German town of Hamelin robbed an amusement arcade by threatening the attendant with a cup of coffee, authorities said on Tuesday.

  • An ITV satellite dish sits on top of the broadcaster's building, in London, August 6, 2009. REUTERS/Stephen Hird
    Broadcaster fined over killing a rat on TV show Reuters - Tue Feb 9, 11:01 AM

    SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - British broadcaster ITV pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was fined by an Australian court on Monday after a rat was killed and eaten on the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here."


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