Tommy the house cat is a real lifesaver – he dialed 911 when his owner had a stroke.

Gary Rosheisen of Columbus, Ohio, said he’d spent years trying to teach Tommy to push the speed dial for 911 in case of an emergency – and it worked. “He’s my hero,” Rosheisen said.

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Residents of Normal, Ill., have started ducking their town’s unusual name and saying they’re from nearby Bloomington instead.

“Maybe they just feel Bloomington is more recognizable, since it’s the older and larger of the communities – or maybe they just don’t want to put up with the jokes,” said Mike Humphreys, an Illinois State University marketing professor.

Mark Peterson, Normal’s city manager, insists there are far worse names: “I came here from the Kansas City area – and lived near Peculiar, Mo.”

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Forget about diamonds. Couples are turning to the laboratory to create “biojewelry” – bone rings grown from their DNA – as a token of their love.

In an extreme test of devotion, they must submit to the removal of wisdom teeth and the extraction of a fragment of jawbone. Tobie Kerridge, the British inventor behind the idea, said each ring costs $11,700 to produce.

Matthew Harrison, 25, who plans to exchange rings with his girlfriend, said while some might find it “disgusting, I see it as a set of biological connections, instead of something like marriage, a legal connection.”

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The stork didn’t deliver this baby. An airplane did.

An Air Austral flight to France’s Indian Ocean island of Reunion landed with an additional passenger after a woman gave birth in the aircraft’s bathroom.

“I didn’t believe it, so I got up to go see, and the baby was already out,” said pilot Jean-Christophe Durieux.

The baby, named Elfayed, and the 25-year-old mom are fine.

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Two elderly sisters had a dramatic reunion over the weekend – talking for the first time since they lost touch 76 years ago.

The pair, born in north London, were sent to live with different relatives in 1929 when their mom died.

After Doris Coughtrey, 79, mentioned her long-lost sister, a neighbor used the Internet to help her trace Irene Baker, 85.

“We have so much to catch up on,” Doris said.