JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — After a newspaper reported in 1897 that the great American writer Mark Twain had died, a bemused -- but very much alive -- Twain famously quipped: "the report of my death ...
A South African who smoked since the age of 14 and claimed to be the world's oldest man has died of an asthma attack just hours after celebrating his 121st birthday. Jan Steenberg, affectionately ...