The world's oldest person, a nun said to be 118, has died in her nursing home.
French nun Lucile Randon, also known as Sister André, was born in 1904 and took on the title of world's oldest person last year following the death of Kane Tanaka from Japan last year at 119.
A born survivor, she lived through the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and in 2021 she shrugged off Covid with few symptoms, despite the when the virus killing ten residents at her nursing home in southern France, saying "I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die."