April Fool's

4 April 2011 - It almost went unnoticed because of the Mongolia trip, but April's fool's day has quietly passed.  Usually, it is the day when newspapers compete to come up with the most inventive spoof stories - but not every bizarre report on 1 April is fictitious. The Metro newspaper in France carried an article about French President Sarkozy and many morninng commuters thought it was an April fool's prank. Not so, as the story is in fact, entirely true. It was reported that Sarkozy uses a £10,000 armour-plated umbrella to protect him from attackers. Carried by the head of state's security guards, the rainproof device is allegedly coated in high-strength Kevlar so it can reduce the force of bullets and resist knife attacks. April's fool? Non Monsieur.