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Giant Breast Statue Nominated For Turner Prize

The judges for The Turner Prize announced Tuesday that sculptures of cartoon-like women with huge knobby breasts and disco-dancing Palestinians are among the works shortlisted for Britain's most prestigious and controversial art award.

Abstract painter Tomma Abts, video installation artist Phil Collins, billboard artist Mark Titchner and sculptor Rebecca Warren have been nominated for the 25,000-pound (47,000-dollar) award, says AFP.

Volkswagen to Remove Offensive Billboards

Some Volkswagen billboards have come down after complaints that a word used in an ad was offensive to Hispanics. The ad for the new GTI 2006 had a photo of the sports car accompanied by the words "Turbo-Cojones."

Cojones, which means testicles in Spanish, has become a casually used term for boldness or guts in English, but hasn't lost its more vulgar connotations in its native language. There were complaints about a billboard in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. There were no complaints about billboards in New York and Los Angeles, but the company says it decided to pull the ads in all three cities.

Man Wants to Cash In On His Organs

A Croatian man wants to put his organs on the market to pay back loans.

In a weird twist, 40-year-old Nenad Vrbanic wants to cash in on his kidney and cornea to pay off debts and back loans totaling near 35,000 euros, according to local reports.