A top Philippine newspaper Saturday was taken in by a spoof cover of Time magazine depicting President Benigno Aquino with his mouth agape, running the picture on its front page.

"We stand corrected. It was an honest mistake," said a short statement issued by the Inquirer's editor-in-chief Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc.

She did not say who gave the paper the picture, which had the Filipino leader saying in its caption: "I'm just the face of the whole country."

The picture however remained on the paper's website on Saturday afternoon.

Time named Aquino on its annual list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World".

But he was not among the seven on the list who graced the covers of the magazine's US and global editions, according to the magazine's website.

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as if time magazine would actually use that photo.