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Son uses dad to get girls
Australian actor Hugh Jackman’s nine-year-old son is using his dad’s Wolverine pedigree to woo the girls. Jackman says his son Oscar, spotting a group of teenage girls one day, turned to him and said: “Hey dad, 2 o’clock, hot chicks.” Jackman, chosen People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for last year, says the conversation made him squirm. But Jackman says his son marched right up to the girls and declared “Hey, you know that my dad’s Wolverine?” Jackman spoke to reporters on Tuesday while in Mexico City to promote X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
■UNITED STATES
Police hunt Miami cat killer
Miami police are calling on locals to help solve 20 brutal cat slayings terrorizing pet owners in the city, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. More than 20 cats have been found quartered or mutilated in the last two weeks, prompting Miami-Dade police to call for help. “It is occurring on an almost daily basis,” spokeswoman Rebeca Perez said. “We need people to tell us if they see anything suspicious to do with this individual.”
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Five rescued after 19 days
The military rescued five Ecuadorian fishermen whose boat had been drifting for 19 days in the Pacific, the army said late on Tuesday. “The Ecuadorians were launching signals from their craft, asking for help from a US Coast Guard plane that contacted” the authorities, the army said in a statement, without indicating the exact date of the rescue. The fishing boat, about 20m long, was spotted 83km off the coast of the southeastern state of Chiapas, close to the border with Guatemala. The captain, a cook, a machinist and two crewmembers said they rigged their boat out on May 6 from the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica before their motor broke down and they began drifting several days later.
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LA approves couple’s pets
A Southern California couple will not be allowed to have 15 goats. They’ll have to settle for 10 goats, two horses, a llama and an emu. Roberto Alguero and Iris Fiorito live in an unincorporated area near Claremont zoned for light agricultural use. They had originally asked for a permit to keep 15 goats, but Los Angeles County’s planning commission granted them a permit allowing 10, along with the rest of their menagerie. Neighbors filed objections complaining of the noise and stench at the farm-like house, but the Board of Supervisors ruled on Tuesday that the couple could keep the animals, provided they build a 1.8m wall and keep male and female goats separate. Fiorito concedes that “we know we have a few more goats than we should.”
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