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TOKYO — A Japanese man recently named the world's oldest living male has died aged 112, a local official said on Tuesday.Chitetsu Watanabe, who was born on March 5, 1907 in Niigata, north of Tokyo, died on Sunday at his nursing home in the same prefecture, the official said.The news came less than two weeks after he was officially recognised by Guinness World Records.Watanabe, who had five children, said the secret to longevity was to "not get angry and keep a smile on your face".He admitted a penchant for sweets such as custard pudding and ice cream.The oldest man in Japan is now Issaku Tomoe, who is 110 years old, according to Jiji Press, although it was not clear if Tomoe holds the title globally.The oldest living person is also Japanese, Kane Tanaka, a 117-year-old...
February 25, 2020
World's oldest man dies in Japan at 112
February 24, 2020
Katherine Johnson, black NASA mathematician, dies at 101
February 24, 2020
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February 24, 2020
UK pianist Alexis Ffrench bids to change image of classical music
February 24, 2020
Protests in Chile hit LatAm's biggest music festival
PARIS — A Mona Lisa as puzzling as the smile of Leonardo da Vinci's muse — made out of nearly 300 Rubik's Cubes — sold for nearly half a million euros at auction in Paris on Sunday evening.Created by the French street artist Franck Slama, famous for the pixelated Space Invader mosaics that have popped up on city streets around the world, the "Rubik Mona Lisa" sold for 480,000 euros ($521,000), a record for the artist, Artcurial auction house said.Its guide price was 120,000 to 150,000 euros.Slama, who works under the pseudonym "Invader", has playfully styled himself the founder of a new school of art that uses the iconic 1980s puzzle as the medium: "Rubikcubism."The 2005 "Rubik Mona Lisa" was the first in a series of pieces inspired by...
February 24, 2020
Rubik's Cube Mona Lisa fetches 480,000 euros at Paris auction
February 24, 2020
Brazilian directors come out fighting at Berlin film festival
February 23, 2020
Raf Simons joins Prada as co-creative director
February 22, 2020
Eilish breaks record with James Bond theme
February 22, 2020
Harry and Meghan to stop using 'royal' brand