Rick Astley, dead or what?

This was rather amusing this morning, well, amusing in a rather macabre manner.

Given the way in which celebrities seem to be falling off their perches at the moment someone created a quite official looking AP report (usingthe name of a well known AP reporter) and posted it up on the CNN site. The report stated that Rick Astley had died in Germany.

This of course had the search engines buzzing. But, as above, it was a fake AP report. The easiest way to check that was to look at the actual AP feed, where it didn't appear.

As far as I know, the only newspaper (as opposed to blog) that got taken in was on in Malaysia. Way to check the facts, guys!