Wikipedia:April Fools' Main Page/In The News/1 April 2009

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• The unexpected public hanging of Ireland's Taoiseach, Brian Cowen (pictured), occurs in Dublin, following months of economic uncertainty.
• NASA reports a shower of diamonds over the Republic of Sudan.
• German scientists unearth a row of suckers belonging to the ancient Octopoda order.
• A revolutionary new online tanning service receives one million hits within two months of being established.
• Henry Allingham of the United Kingdom credits cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women for his seemingly impossible immortality.
• The merging of Hartford and New Orleans is found to have severe environmental consequences.
• The Dutch announce their intention to return a human head borrowed from Ghana.
• The Vice-President of the Comoros declares war after an island in the Indian ocean decides to become a part of France.
• A newspaper discovers that pay-per-view porn is amongst a number of unusual things being purchased by British MPs on their claimed expenses.
• American scientists undergo enlightenment in order to study processes in the center of the Sun.
• A manufacturer is requested to increase production by over 300,000 in one week following the launch of two Turkish missiles at a former oil giant.