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Days earlier, video of the 9-year-old breaking down over taunts about his dwarfism went viral.
"I want to be brave like you," Zachary Ro told the openly gay candidate at a rally in Denver.
Watanabe, of Niigata, Japan, was awarded the honour after the death of fellow Japanese citizen Masazo Nonaka, who was 112 years and 266 days old.
Introducing Queen Siba, the standard poodle. Long may she reign.
“This remake of the tent scene in Blair Witch is unsettling," fired back former government ethics chief Walter Shaub.
This is the sun like we've never seen it before. The footage, taken by a 4-metre long solar telescope in Hawaii, shows our closest star at its most detailed ever. Each cell of turbulent plasma you can see is roughly the size of France, giving some idea of the immense scale of our 5-billion-year-old solar neighbour.
Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife and their daughter also were among those who perished.
The moment was captured on Kangaroo Island, which one shaken rescuer said has "bodies of charred animals as far as the eye can see.”
Thousands marched through Baghdad on Saturday for Iran’s top general, who was killed in a US airstrike.
Harrowing scenes showing fleeing kangaroos, burnt koalas and dead birds have appeared on social media.