"They are giving it a bit of a punt knowing that they can always accept a lower offer later," he said.But Rightmove warned it was a sign that sellers and estate agents still believed they could market homes at inflated prices despite mounting signs of a slowdown. Miles Shipside, its commercial director, said: "Some sellers and estate agents are unable to shake off ingrained spring boom mentality of recent years. The average asking price in estate agents' windows jumped by £4,300, or 2.3 per cent, between January and February.A Rightmove spokesman said the high asking prices showed that sellers were not desperate to sell. Sellers have rushed to put their homes on the market at high prices to try to take advantage of the traditional new year surge in activity, a survey showed today. Yv, aged 21, was forced into prostitution at the age of 15, when she was abducted and sold into the commercial sex trade for US$130 (£68). The suspicions of the home's social worker were confirmed when an adult prostitute contacted an outreach worker to say that Emily was picking up men on the street for paid sex Ironically, Emily was one of the "lucky" ones. I didn't panic - that was all."'Hotel Rwanda' opens nationwide on 4 March.

Ruud Lubbers tendered his resignation as the United Nations high commissioner for refugees last night, still insisting that he was innocent of the charge of sexual harassment of a female employee and blaming the international organisation for its handling of the scandal since details of the alleged offence were made public in this newspaper on Friday. Yet at the start of this decade, an estimated 300,000 children had been recruited into armed groups. Each time war has broken out in sub-Saharan Africa in the past two decades, there have been reports of boys as young as 11 sent into combat.. The knotted carpet industry in north India and Pakistan is infamous forbonded children.Child soldiers:International legal standards ban under-16s from working in the armed forces and under-18s from conscription. In 2001, four child migrants were rescued off a ship supposed to be taking them from West to Central Africa. On arrival, they were scheduled to work for eight years to pay for the 1,000km trip. Children become victims of bonded labour when they, or adult relatives, accept a loan and agree the child should work to pay it back Sometimes, children work for years to pay off a small sum.

I cried every night for three months." Net received no wages and eventually ran away. With the assistance of the Thai police, she reached a residential centre where she could learn new skills before returning home.*Name changed to protect identity CAMBODIA Yv* stands silhouetted against a window in a brothel in the southern port city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Net's mother was paralysed and could not work, so the burden fell on the children. Net met a man who said he could find work for her in Thailand.