The art world is furiously debating the ethics of displaying a sculpture made with the pickled head of a dead fetus attached to a seagull's body that was exhibited at a Swiss art museum.

Berne's Museum of Fine Arts removed the piece from a Chinese art exhibition earlier this month after a complaint that it was disrespectful to the dead, and following concerns its grisly appearance might traumatize visiting schoolchildren, Reuters reports.

Stephen King and John Grisham are among 16 authors selling the right to have a character in a book named for the highest bidder in an effort to raise money for the First Amendment Project, a California-based nonprofit group that promotes freedom of information and expression.

Details of exactly what each author is offering have been posted on Internet auction site eBay and the auctions will be held between September 1 and September 25, the group says, according to Reuters.

A gang of Brazilian prisoners spent months planning and toiling to dig a tunnel in attempts to ensure their freedom. Little did they know the tunnel would lead them right into the prison yard.

The prisoners at Timoteo prison in southern Brazil, dug out of their tunnel, which took 67 men several months to complete, just 12 inches shy of the main perimeter wall.