Newell Rubbermaid's Graco unit received reports of five amputations and two lacerations after children placed their fingers in the strollers' hinges while the canopy was being opened or closed, the agency said. The commission announced the voluntary recall today in a statement on its Web site.

The recall covers those Graco Passage, Alano and Spree strollers and travel systems with a plastic, jointed hinge mechanism that has indented canopy positioning notches, the agency said.

The products were sold at retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Toys "R" Us Inc. from October 2004 and December 2009, the agency said.

A Norwegian professor has said that breastfed children are not healthier because they were fed naturally but because of the conditions in their mother's womb tended to be better. Professor Sven Carlsen, who led the Norwegian team, said: "Baby formula is as good as breast milk."

He said the health of the child is determined by the hormone balance in the mother's womb. When a woman has high levels of male hormones in the womb the flow of nutrients to the baby is affected and the hormones also affect her ability to breastfeed, making her offspring more likely to be bottle fed.

This suggest that babies who are not breastfed have typically also been subjected to poorer conditions in the womb and it is this that has affected their health not the lack of their mother's milk, he said. The controversial theory was immediately dismissed by British experts who said the claims were 'irresponsible' and 'overblown'. Prof Carlsen, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, said he reviewed data from more than 50 international studies looking at the relationship between breastfeeding and health.

He said the study found no evidence that breastfeeding reduced the risk of asthma and allergies in children, which has been attributed to breastfeeding. The only benefit from breastfeeding supported by genuine evidence is a "small IQ advantage", he said.

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Martin's Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter, 40, along with another police chief, was accused of meeting with freelance photographers last May and offering items such as a poem, photos, legal documents about the surrogacy agreement, and pictures of ultrasounds. A photographer alerted the surrogacy agency, which reported the thefts to police.

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Carpenter, who was silent and held his head in his hands as the decisions were read, faces up to 10 years in prison at his sentencing Dec. 10. Until then, he must wear a home confinement device at his mother's home and will be tracked with a GPS device.

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Carpenter has publicly maintained he only went into the house to secure the premises after noticing a door ajar. He claims he did not take anything from the house and his discussions about meeting with photographers that were caught on tape was just him joking around.

"I stand by what I say. I didn't burglarize no home," Carpenter said in a videotaped interview with investigators, which was presented in court. "I don't want to give up a 17-year police career for something that was a joke."

Politicians and industry experts described the practice as "shocking" and said it would put further pressure on parents who wanted their babies to be perfect. Magazines have been heavily criticised in the past for airbrushing images of women to make them look thinner – a practice which eating disorder campaigners claim can help push impressionable young girls into becoming anorexic and bulimic. But this is the first time the industry has admitted using the technique to alter images of babies.

Practical Parenting and Pregnancy, a monthly magazine, has said it has retouched photographs of babies to "put them across in the best light". The practice came to light in a BBC documentary, My Supermodel Baby. In footage of a photo shoot for the magazine, the casting director explained how the photograph of baby model Hadley Corbett, five months, was airbrushed: "We lightened his eyes and his general skin tone, smoothed out any blotches and the creases on his arms," he said. "But we want it to look natural."

Daniella Delaney, the editor of the magazine which sells nearly 40,000 copies, told The Sunday Telegraph that photographs were airbrushed but that it was kept to a minimum. "We'll remove things and even-up skin tone, that sort of thing. But very little is done, in fact, because obviously babies are beautiful the way they are and that is what we went to get across."

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"Babies are not like adults you can't stop them from dribbling, so you might remove that bit of dribble from the chin. Or if the baby has just been crying, and their eyes are red, we might lighten the eyes. Or if they have just woken up because they have had a nap on the way in and we photograph them, we might remove a little bit of sleep. It is just those kind of things, very little really."

"This will confirm that Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson welcomed the arrival of a baby girl named Lucia on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles," says Gibson's rep, Alan Nierob, confirming earlier reports of the event. No further details were available.

"Everything is great! They couldn't be happier," a friend tells People. "Everyone's healthy and thrilled. He loooves it!" Gibson, 53, was at Grigorieva's side in Los Angeles until she and the baby went home from the hospital, then he flew to New York Sunday to resume shooting The Beaver, costarring Jodie Foster.