Google drops the mic ... when April Fools' Day pranks go wrong

Some users claim to have lost their jobs over Google's Gmail April fool ... while we round up the best of the rest of the day's gags

The first of April is normally a day of frothy fun, where newspapers and brands compete to produce the best jokes and the worst puns to fool their readers.

But this year some of the more complex pranks did not go quite to plan.