CHICAGO: The oldest known person in the world has died peacefully at her home in the United States aged 116, media reports said on Thursday. Jeralean Talley, who kept up her bowling hobby until the ripe-old age of 104, passed away on Wednesday in Inkster, near Detroit, the Detroit Free Press said. The deeply religious Talley was born in the southern US state of Georgia at the tail end of the nineteenth century on May 23, 1899.

"Just remember her as being a very beautiful, forgiving person," said her daughter Thelma Holloway, 77, adding that Talley had been in a hospital for a week before being brought home on Saturday. "She went away peacefully," Holloway said. Talley is survived by her daughter as well as three generations of grandchildren, the newspaper said. Her husband of 52 years, Alfred Talley, died in 1988 when he was 95 years old.

Hooch claims 53

MUMBAI: Fifty-three people have died in Mumbai and 28 others are being treated in hospital after drinking toxic home-made liquor, police said on Friday, in the latest incident of alcohol poisoning in India. Dhananjay Kulkarni, Mumbai police deputy commissioner, said the victims had started to fall ill on Wednesday morning after consuming the illicit moonshine. "The number of dead has risen to 53," the commissioner told AFP late on Friday, up from an earlier death toll of 41. "Twenty-eight others are receiving treatment after consuming the spurious liquor. Crime branch is investigating and three suspects are being held in custody," Kulkarni added. The three men, aged 30, 47, and 50, were arrested on Thursday night, he said. The commissioner also said eight police officers have been suspended for a "negligent approach while discharging their duty" for failing to stop production and sale of the liquor on their beat. Bootleg liquor is consumed across India and is sold for less than a dollar for a 25cl bottle.