Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LONDON, April 1 (UPI) -- British newspapers marked April Fool's Day Tuesday with fake reports of France's president undergoing height-enhancing surgery and of flying penguins. The Sun jokingly reported French President Nicolas Sarkozy was preparing to be operated on by a made-up Israeli academic named "Ura Schmuck" to increase his height, The Guardian said in its fake report that Sarkozy's wife, supermodel Carla Bruni, had been hired by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to head a program aimed at bringing more style to Britain. Advertisement Meanwhile, The Daily Telegraph and The Mirror printed identical stories about footage of flying penguins set to be featured on a fictional BBC television special, "Miracles of Evolution." The hoax was given credence by the BBC's own Web site, which featured a link to a 90-second clip of the penguins taking off for a flight from Antarctica to the Amazon rain forest -- however, once clicked, the link leads to an advertisement for the BBC iPlayer video program. The Express followed the April Fool's story trend with a story about the clock face of London landmark Big Ben being replaced by a digital clock. Advertisement
