A 101-year old man from Phoenix, Arizona realized a lifelong dream Saturday when he was awarded legal American citizenship. The first centenarian to become an American citizenship in the state, Vicente Osorio Rios achieved his legal citizen status at a local court, in a ceremony witnessed by family members that altogether spanned three generations.

Oliver Sherwood, a two-year-old boy who is suffering from a rare illness that causes chronic high blood pressure, is being kept alive by four daily doses of the erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra. Viagra helps control Oliver's rare pulmonary hypertension by improving blood flow and opening his veins and capillaries to allow circulation. In adults, this boosts erectile function.

With his mother suddenly passing out while cruising at 70 mph along a three lanes of traffic, a nine-year-old boy took over the steering wheels of their car before parking it to safety. Jonathan Anderson said the car lost control and hit the road's central barrier when her mother, Marion blacked out while they were traversing the A38 in Plympton, Devon.

A talkative parrot who was never lost for words, lost his will to talk after straying in the wilds of Cambridgeshire for four days. According to his owner Cedric Tunnell, 66, Harley, an African Grey, loves to call them "Mom" and "Dad", could recite his telephone number and was constantly talking all of the time.

Authorities said Monday that a 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed because he was still not ready to go back to school after the Christmas vacation. "I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school. I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun," the boy Diego told AFP.