LONDON: Portugal football star Cristiano Ronaldo is to join Spain to help ease his nation's debt crisis and Britain is to begin taxing fresh air, British newspapers reported in their April Fools' Day editions. According to the Independent broadsheet, Real Madrid winger Ronaldo has agreed to “act like a patriot” and defect to the Spanish national team, netting his debt-ravaged country 160 million euros ($227 million). Mirror reporter Flora Olip, coincidentally an anagram of April fool, revealed that the British government was to introduced a “gasp” bill to raise taxes from fresh air. The Daily Express joined in the fun, reporting that a British company had developed a modified Zimmer walking frame which incorporated a skateboard for pensioners who wanted something “a little more speedy”.
