Pope Francis was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction Saturday by President Biden, a White House press release said.
Tomiko Itooka, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan, died from natural causes on Dec. 29, according to Guinness World Records.
Notre Dame Cathedral is reopening its doors Saturday in Paris over five years after a devastating fire nearly destroyed the 861-year-old Gothic wonder.