Hong Kong - A public hospital in Hong Kong Tuesday said it had lost the body of a baby boy and had set up a committee to investigate how the blunder took place.

The city's Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital said the body of the infant had gone missing last Friday. Police and the Hospital Authority had been informed, a spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman expressed "great concern and regret" over the incident and told government-run radio station RTHK that a full apology had been given to the parents.

The committee would establish how the incident had taken place and make recommendations to avoid future incidents, the spokesman said. The circumstances of the baby boy's death were not known.

Sydney, Jan. 6: South African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher, who top-scored with 89, has rated the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) pitch among the three toughest third-day wickets he has encountered in his 11-year career.

"It''s not nice staring down the wicket and you make sure you run on the side of it so you don''t fall down," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Boucher, as saying.

"But we can''t control that. It''s the playing surface we have been given and we''ve just got to try and play on it as best we can," he added.

However, pitch curator Tom Parker said he was influenced by forecasts of showers for the eve of the Test and the first morning to keep watering to a minimum.

Tel Aviv, Jan 6 : Journalists covering the present Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip have claimed that Israel is not allowing foreign press to enter the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Accusing Israel of playing games with the media, the Foreign Press Association said that Tel Aviv's stalling tactics had exasperated it.

They suggested that Israel was mixing genuine security concerns and games.

"We are waiting day by day, hour by hour," said Glenys Sugarman, executive secretary of the FPA.

"We just don''''''''t know when we will get in," Sugarman added.

Nairobi/Goma - Confusion reigned Tuesday over who was in charge of the main rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo after reports that General Laurent Nkunda had been ousted were denied.

A group of officers from the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) on Monday sent a statement to the BBC saying they had ousted Nkunda for "bad governance."

However, a spokesman for Nkunda, who has been leading a rebellion in the east of the sprawling nation, then denied this was the case.

Fighting between the CNDP and government troops exploded in October after beginning to ramp up in August.

Washington, Jan 6 : Birthing has perks beyond the miracle of life, which include - orgasm. According to a new DVD, non-medicated labor possibly can be climactic.

The documentary entitled "Orgasmic Childbirth" revealed that biologically speaking, birth can be a sexual experience.

The pleasures of birth allow for better mother-infant bonding. Orgasmic pleasures are a continuation of the act of conception itself. They''re in the best interest of the baby, and an ideal starting point for healthy family relationships, reports Fox News.

Research conducted by Dr. Beverly Whipple in 1989, as well as others, indicates that orgasms can be induced in some women during childbirth.

Cotabato City, Philippines - A vice mayor of a southern Philippine town was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen, police said Tuesday.

Froilan Rufino, 50, vice mayor of President Quirino town in Sultan Kudarat province, 930 kilometres south of Manila, died of three gunshot wounds to the head.

Police Senior Superintendent Benhur Mongao said Rufino was inside his residential compound in Patiko village when two gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at him Monday evening.

"No one saw the suspects because it was dark at the victim's place," he said.

Mongao said investigators were still determining a motive for the killing, which happened while Rufino was alone at the house.