Marie Curie

A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday.

Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Brussels – Slovenian Education Minister Simona Kustec reiterated her condemnation of Russian aggression at a session of EU education ministers in Brussels on Tuesday as she called for support for Ukrainian students, researchers and teachers at all levels of education, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport said in a statement.

Author Ahmet Erdi Ozturk is a young associated professor of politics and international relations and Marie Curie Fellow at Coventry University and London Metropolitan University.

Although the book has only been published very recently by Edinburgh University Press, it is already being touted as an important addition to Turkey-Balkan studies.

(CNN)The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years, and for only the third time in its history.