Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a baseball as he attends a news conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas September 29, 2011. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez mocked a U.S. media report that he had been rushed to hospital with kidney failure linked to the socialist leader's ongoing treatment for cancer. "I'm fine, here having my first coffee of the day," a sprightly sounding Chavez, 57, said on Thursday. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT HEALTH SPORT)