Reykjaviik, Iceland -- Icelandic officials are dickering with the owner of the world's only museum dedicated to the male sex organ. According to the "Iceland Review," the owner of the Icelandic Phallogical Museum says the city has cut funding so he's forced to offer his large collection of phallic specimens up for sale. Although the museum has aroused the interest of a British tycoon, curator Sigurder Hjartarson says it would "be a shame to sell the museum abroad."

VAN NUYS, Calif. -- Oh, the irony: An 85-year-old man plowed his car into the Department of Motor Vehicles building in Van Nuys, California, Friday -- right before he was supposed to take his driver's test. No one was injured, except the guy's ego. Officials revoked his license and an investigation is pending, reports the "Los Angeles Times."

NORTH FORT MEYERS, Fla. -- It was a one-sided police standoff this weekend in Lee County, Florida. Sheriff's deputies spent four-and-a-half hours surrounding a fugitive's trailer Sunday, only to find the man wasn't inside. The southwest Florida "News-Press" reports more than 24 officers were involved in the standoff, which ended with them gassing the empty RV.

ROME -- Mama mia, 'ats a gooda news! Italian scientists say pizza could help reduce risk of certain forms of cancer. Researchers at a Milan pharmacology center found that eating one or more pizzas a week dramatically reduce esophageal cancer and colon cancer.

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