April fools!

If you read the articles attentively, you should know by now which articles were April Fools jokes. Most of you guessed correctly that the first article was fake, and so was the second. But could you imagine that the smoking tortoise really exists? Life's stranger than fiction!

The fake articles specify they are a joke somewhere on the page, so you can check for yourselves. You can also read the following articles:

April Fool's Day story round-up (The Telegraph)

Ben Schott's April Fool Almanac (Times online)

Read what La Vanguardia says today.