French woman clinches oldest person title

A French woman has now clinched the title as the world's oldest person, according to  Guinness World Records, after Kama Chinen, a Japanese woman, died one week short of her 115th birthday.

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The Gerontology Research Group affirms that Eugenie Blanchard, a 114-year-old French woman living on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, was born on 16 February 1896.

Chinen became the world's oldest person after an American woman died in September 2009.

The United Nations cites Japan as having the world's highest life expectancy. Chiyono Hasegawa, 113, is now Japan's oldest person.