117-year-old Jamaican woman becomes world's oldest person
A 117-year-old Jamaican woman named Violet Brown has become the world's oldest person, revealed US-based Gerontology Research Group. She lives in the same house she was born in and is Queen Victoria's last living former subject. Brown, born on March 10, 1900, had once said, "I live by the grace of God and I am proud of my age."