An Australian man whose body is covered in tattoos has said he will donate his skin to the National Gallery after he dies.

"To donate skin is not the most amazing thing in the world but the tattoos are revolutionary," Geoff Ostling, 65, told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "It has never been done as a whole body before and not in a gallery."

There is no word on the identity of a body found under a tarp in the basement of a building used as a tattoo parlor.

The body was found when the owner of the building was showing it to a prospective tenant.

Two days after a frantic search for a missing six-month-old boy, the woman who reported him missing confessed that the boy never existed, and her story was all a hoax to lure back her ex-boyfriend.

Meagan McCormick had told Miami police last Tuesday that her son, Riley Archer Buchness had disappeared with his nanny Camille, the Miami Herald reported. But neither Camille nor Riley ever existed, police say, and the whole story was a ruse to get ex-boyfriend John Buchness back into her life.

An elaborate tattoo of Virgin Mary on the back of a Swiss man fetched $219,000 from a German collector at a Zurich gallery on Monday, on condition he allows it to be exhibited at least three time a year.

Gallery owner Jutta Nexdorf said the extraordinary deal also gives the "buyer" the right to take from the skin of Tim Steiner the tattoo upon his death.

eading Australian dictionary Macquarie has added 85 new words and phrases grouped in 17 categories from business to travel. The collection includes odd words such as 'toad juice', 'slummy mummies', and 'arse antlers' among others.

'Toad juice' is defined as a foul-smelling liquid fertilizer produced from pulverizing cane toads, pests that devastate native wildlife. 'Slummy mummies' refer to mothers who are oblivious to their personal appearance, an antonym of which is so-called yummy mommies. And 'arse antlers' is another term for a tattoo just above the buttocks.