■ United States
`Stargazer' arrested
A man who got stuck in a California home's chimney claimed he fell in when he climbed onto the roof to look at stars. But police arrested him for investigation of residential burglary. "I've read and heard of things like that before but I've never seen it," said Brawley Fire Captain Manuel Sevilla. "The situation, it was more funny than anything." Police said the 27-year-old man told them he got stuck near the bottom of the chimney on Friday night and removed his pants and waved them around to set off the home's motion detectors. Officers responded twice to the home on Saturday morning but saw no signs of an intruder. They returned after neighbors reported commotion coming from the home.
■ Venezuela
Stone denies movie claim
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and British producer John Daly are denying claims by President Hugo Chavez on Sunday that they planned to make a film about a 2002 coup that briefly unseated him. "Rumors that I am directing a film about the 2002 coup in Venezuela are untrue and unfounded," Stone said in a statement e-mailed by his publicist on Tuesday. Daly also said in the statement that there had been "no discussions" for such a film.
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