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Jars filled with various animal phalli are on display at the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik May 8, 2008. (Bob Strong/Reuters)

Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ

Thu May 15, 10:22 AM ET

HUSAVIK, Iceland (Reuters) - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.

  • "No, after you - I'm just here to rob the place!" Thu May 15, 10:23 AM ET

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man politely waited his turn in a queue at a busy central Sydney post office before jumping over the counter, grabbing money from two tills and running off, police said on Thursday.

  • Wedding day fireworks land groom in jail Thu May 15, 10:23 AM ET

    ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Bridegroom Kedir Mohamed wanted his wedding day to go with a bang and decided to celebrate by letting off firecrackers after the ceremony.

  • A model displays a creation of Giorgio Armani during a fashion show in San Vittore prison in Milan, May 14, 2008. A group of fashion designers have created a local cooperative called 'Sartoria San Vittore' to help prisoners learn job skills. Female inmates have learned tailoring skills from cooperative members and have made costumes for theatre and television. The Armani outfit was given to the prisoners to use in their fashion show. It was not made by the prisoners. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
    Inmates showcase designs at prison show Thu May 15, 10:25 AM ET

    MILAN (Reuters) - The models are strutting past and the celebrities are carefully eyeing the collections, but it's not at every fashion show that you see prison guards by the catwalk.

  • "Snake man" slithers out of prison cell Wed May 14, 10:34 AM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday.

  • New Mexico's float, depicting aliens on a spaceship, takes part in the 119th annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California January 1, 2008. (Mark Avery/Reuters)
    Green aliens, UFOs said to visit Wed May 14, 1:54 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public.

  • People pass the Channel 4 television station emblem outside their headquarters in central London April 23, 2008. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
    Watchdog raps Skins over "orgy" poster Wed May 14, 10:32 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - The advertising watchdog has banned a poster for a teenage TV drama series that featured a dishevelled, semi-naked young woman sitting on a bed, surrounded by couples apparently taking part in an orgy.

  • A model (C) displays lingerie maker Triumph International Japan's 'Photovoltaic-Powered Bra' during an unveiling in Tokyo May 14, 2008. The camisole bra, which the company calls it as 'earth and human friendly', features a solar panel which can display messages on the removable small electric board when the cell generates electricity. The bra is also equipped with pads designed to hold beverages so that the usage of cans and plastic bottles can be reduced, the company said. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
    Solar bra brings conservation closer to the heart Wed May 14, 10:31 AM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod.

  • Hotel director Marianne Dorfer stands in frontVilla Trapp, the original Sound of Music family home, in Salzburg May 13, 2008. Georg von Trapp and his family used to live in this house from 1923 till their emigration to the U.S. in the late 1938. The original von Trapp family home will be reopened as a hotel in July to give people for around 100 euros ($155) a night the chance to lay their head to rest where the von Trapp family once lived, get married in the house's chapel or have a Sound of Music dinner in the family dining room. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)
    Von Trapp's "Sound of Music" villa to become hotel Wed May 14, 10:28 AM ET

    SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - "The Sound of Music," one of Hollywood's greatest money-spinners, will scale new heights when the original von Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as a hotel in July.

  • Man sues airline over flight spent in toilet Tue May 13, 2:11 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour JetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extreme humiliation."

  • Woman mistook naked thief for husband Tue May 13, 2:08 PM ET

    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian woman woke up to a real-life nightmare, discovering that the naked man who had slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her husband, a newspaper said on Tuesday.

  • A smoker takes a break with his cigarette at a smoking area in Tokyo February 8, 2007. (Issei Kato/Reuters)
    A new wrinkle in smoking enforcement... Mon May 12, 1:10 PM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.

  • Man pokes shark in eye during attack Mon May 12, 12:50 PM ET

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian swimmer survived a great white shark attack by poking the creature in the eyes as it dragged him through the water after badly savaging his left leg.

  • Olympics bonuses tailored to prevent squandering Mon May 12, 12:50 PM ET

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is offering its athletes big cash incentives for Olympic gold medals -- but will pay out in installments to stop them squandering it.

  • Nepal king makes animal sacrifices to power goddess Mon May 12, 12:49 PM ET

    KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's King Gyanendra, facing imminent ouster from the throne, made perhaps his last royal public appearance at a shrine outside Kathmandu on Monday and offered annual prayers to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power.

  • Men charged after skull dug up, used as bong Fri May 9, 1:27 PM ET

    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.

  • "Self-important and irritating" Fri May 9, 1:26 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - England is an irritating and insular country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts, a new guide warns tourists.

  • Book lifts lid on star of eerie first Dracula film Fri May 9, 1:26 PM ET

    BERLIN (Reuters) - The first screen portrayal of Dracula was so eerie, some critics asked whether the actor himself could be a vampire. But since his death, little has been done to resurrect Max Schreck's reputation -- until now.

  • Royal jewels, rare watches to test auction market Fri May 9, 1:25 PM ET

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Auction houses offering royal jewels and rare luxury watches in Geneva next week shrug off any suggestion that the global economic downturn will dampen what they say is still a strong market for high-end pieces.

  • A Tim Hortons coffee outlet displays doughnuts for sale at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary March 24, 2006. (J.P. Moczulski/Reuters)
    Woman fired for giving 16-cent treat to toddler Thu May 8, 12:46 PM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - An attendant at a Canadian restaurant who was sacked for giving a bite-sized doughnut, worth 16 cents, to an agitated toddler was given her job back on Thursday after the case received wide media attention.