World’s oldest person eyes new record

France's Sister Andre, believed to have become the oldest person alive this week at the age of 118, yesterday said she would now like to beat the record of oldest person ever. "People say that work kills, for me work kept me alive, I kept working until I was 108," the Catholic nun told reporters yesterday in the tea-room of the hospice where she lives in the Mediterranean city Toulon. Sister Andre has a record to beat in mind: that of Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 in Arles, southern France, aged 122 -- the oldest confirmed age reached by any human being so far.