The statement said that while searching a building in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, the two soldiers ordered the child to open bags thought to be booby-traps.

The investigation into the two soldiers, who both hold the rank of staff-sergeant, was launched based on information received from a special UN representative appointed to investigate matters involving children and armed conflict, and following complaint filed by the Israeli branch of Defence for Children International, the statement added.

The Horizons Abu Dhabi plan seeks to attract 1.65 million hotel guests this year. It also seeks to encourage global tour operators to submit innovative proposals to help stimulate consumer demand.

The initiative will give a platform to Abu Dhabi's tourism sector to expand its business in the emirate in collaboration with the international travel industry, the report said Thursday.

'Every proposal will be considered in full merit and without bias. ADTA is ready to back all concrete proposals with appropriate resources,' said Dayne Lim, ADTA product development director.

'Over the past 18 months or so, Abu Dhabi's visitor infrastructure in terms of accommodation, accessibility and attractions has expanded substantially, and with an increasing stable of leisure offerings being rolled out, it is only appropriate that we strengthen our international visitor attraction efforts,' he said.

In 2009, some 3,500 additional rooms were created in desert retreats, luxury beachfront resorts and five hotels on Yas Island, including the iconic Yas Hotel. This year, over 4,000 more rooms will be available for guests, as 10 new hotels are coming up.

ADTA hopes to strengthen its global travel trade partner network to create and implement packages to boost its inbound leisure business.

To boost its international promotional efforts, ADTA will participate in 20 overseas trade fairs not only in its traditional markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Europe, but also in potentially lucrative new markets like China, Japan, Russia, India and the US, among others.

'Whether it is domestic violence, sex trafficking, so-called 'honour' crimes or female genital cutting, violence against women and girls continues to be a horrific and all-too common crime,' Ban said.

In too many regions of the world, women still live in fear, he said in calling for stronger laws to protect women and efforts to inform men about ending domestic violence.

The UN has held a series of events on women's issues in recent weeks in conjunction with World Women's Day Monday.

The placement process for the graduating batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP)at the IIM-Ahmedabad, closed Thursday. All PGP students sitting for placements at IIM Ahmedabad have been placed in the firms of their choice, official sources said here Thursday.

'Despite a recessionary year, a larger batch, a new, untested placement process, all students of the batch were placed in the firms of their choice,' the spokesperson added.

'More than 40 offers extended by Global Strategy Consulting firms, Global Niche Consulting firms, Global Investment Banks and Global Private Equity firms, the four cohorts that constituted this cluster. Mckinsey&Co (8 acceptances including pre-placement offers), The Boston Consulting Group (8 acceptances including pre-placement offers), Monitor Group (5 acceptances), Bain and Company, Booz and Company, AT Kearney and Oliver Wyman went back satisfied with the quality of students recruited from IIM-A,' Mansi Chitalia, member student placement committee said.

'With 53 percent of the batch of the batch eligible, the thrust on lateral placements ensured that students could leverage their experience to the hilt. Firms like Deloitte Consulting, A&M, Yes Bank, TSMG, Cognizant, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon and Philips were some of the major recruiters during the process. More than 40 firms participated in the laterals process and extended more than 100 offers, an increase of 4 times over last

year,' she pointed out.

The year also marked the return of the Investment Banks for the Final Recruitment Process. As compared to last year that saw almost no presence of Investment Banks for final placements, this year saw I-Banks extending offers both through PPOs and final placements. 'While Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup were among the major recruiters to extend offers through the PPO route, we saw JP Morgan,

Merrill Lynch, HSBC and Nomura participate in the finals process,' Chitalia added.

Similar to last year, this year also saw international offers being made to students of this institute. Goldman Sachs offered multiple roles in London while banks like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank offered roles across Asia Pacific. In a marked development that probably is an indicator of conditions improving dramatically for IT firms, Cybage and Syntel Inc. made offers for their US operations. P&G, with 4 acceptances, continued with its trend of extending a majority of its offers for

Singapore operations.

Yes Bank (13 offers including laterals) and ICICI Bank (13 offers) were the top recruiters on campus this year.

This was closely followed by Deloitte that made 10 offers (including laterals) for its consulting arm serving the US offices. One of the top global consulting firms, the Boston Consulting Group and leading steel maker, Ispat Industries made 8 offers each for consulting and general management roles respectively.

The elite Tata Administrative Services and niche consulting firm, Feedback Ventures

re-affirmed their commitment to IIMA with 6 offers each. Public sector enterprises like Union Bank of India (2 offers), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (4 offers) and National Thermal Power Corporation (1 offer) also participated in the process.

Banking and consulting firms were the flavors of the season this time around with most top recruiters coming from these firms. While about 20 firms offering roles in the consulting space recruited 29 percent of the batch, the Banking and Financial services sector saw 27 percent of the batch joining the workforce. However, there was no dearth of opportunities for students interested in other sectors. 15 percent of the batch took up roles with marketing majors such as P&G, HUL, Nestle, Airtel, J&J, Nokia, Philips, Titan, Cadbury etc.

Similarly, 13 percent of the batch took up roles with firms operating in the systems domain with some of the star recruiters being Google, Inc. which offered Sales, Marketing, Account Management and Business Development roles, Microsoft, Amazon, Cognizant, Wipro, Mindtree and Rediff. Last but definitely not the least, General Management roles were offered by TAS, the Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra, Essar, Lodha Group and Philips amongst others.

This year five students opted out of the placement process to become entrepreneurs. Three students who had opted out of placements to try their hand at their own ventures (2 were from the batch of 2009 and 1 was from the batch of 2008) came back and used the IIMA placement service to get very good offers.

Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the missiles can travel with supersonic speed and hit the target at the distance of 40 km.

These technologically advanced missiles are apt in electronic warfare, Vahidi said, adding that the missiles break into small pieces and act as shrapnel, upon impact.

'The mass production of air defence systems is successfully underway and these systems will (soon) be delivered (to the armed forces),' Vahidi was quoted as saying by Press TV.

Sarkozy has asked Carla, 43, to end a holiday with her alleged lover, singer Benjamin Biolay, 37, and even chartered a plane to bring her home.

The French president confirmed Wednesday night that he will travel to Britain without Carla, amid reports that the marriage is over.

The president is travelling to London to meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition leader David Cameron. The Elysee Palace has confirmed that Carla 'will not be travelling to Britain Friday', The Sun reported.

French newspaper Journal du Dimanche has said: 'The presidential marriage is breathing its last'.

Sarkozy decided to travel alone after media reports said that his wife, a former model, had jetted to Thailand with Biolay several weeks ago. The pair are old friends.

The holiday 'was cut short by Nicolas Sarkozy himself. The president chartered a plane to bring his wife back to Paris,' Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve wrote.

According to rumours, the lovers were reported to be living together in the capital. And, Sarkozy, 55, is said to be having his own fling with environment minister Chantal Jouanno.

However a spokesman for Jouanno, 40, said she was 'scandalised by this rumour'.

Sarkozy and Carla married in 2008 after a three-month romance.

The tremblors, one of which reached 7.2 magnitude, caused panic in several areas across central-southern Chile, which was hit by a devastating quake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale Feb 27. Last month's quake and a subsequent tsunami claimed hundreds of lives.

The Chilean Navy issued a tsunami warning. Thousands of people poured onto the streets in panic, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Hundreds of strong aftershocks have rattled the South American country since the initial quake last month.

The ceremony at the Congress building in Valparaiso was to go on as planned. Guests looked nervously at the ceiling as large lamps shook.

Pinera, 60, is to succeed outgoing President Michelle Bachelet, who is set to leave office with record popularity. She has the support of 84 percent of Chileans in the quake's aftermath, according to an opinion poll that was made public Wednesday.

'We were down by two goals in the first 11 minutes and that was killing. The 2-0 headstart that the Germans got determined the course of the match,' the England coach said after his team's impressive show ended at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium here Friday evening.

'Our lack of experience made it difficult. The absence of penalty corner specialist Richard Mantell also showed.'

Mantell's World Cup campaign ended when he dislocated his ankle in the Pool B outing against Pakistan. Earlier, Mantell's brother Richard and Matt Dalley - both strikers - had to withdraw from the squad due to injuries.

Crutchley said his team played attacking hockey but in the end had to bow to the Germans' 'fantastic' display.

'They showed why they are number one in the world. They kept on finding the openings. We chased shadows,' he said.

However, Crutchley said it was a good performance from England, which reached its first World Cup semi-final after 1986.

'This performance is a big step to move forward,' he added.

England captain Barry Middleton said the Germans were clinical and their approach in the D was superb. 'Had we pulled one back (after conceding the two early goals), it may have been a different game,' he said.

'Since the allegations are of serious nature, I am handing over the probe to the assembly's house committee on child and women welfare,' Kaushik announced.

He added the probe committee will submit its report in the next assembly session.

Police had arrested Narayan Rao, the director of the Gurukul Ashram orphanage, last week after a local news channel carried out a sting operation in which Rao was allegedly filmed talking of money in exchange of an infant girl.

The orphanage has at present 52 children below 16 years of age, most of whose one or both parents were killed in Maoist violence in the state's restive Bastar region.

The incident came to light when family members of Pooja Jaiswal, missing since March 1, received information Wednesday night about her body recovered from the waters of Badhkal Lake in the Surajkund area of Faridabad.

According to Noida police, Pooja's body was found by Faridabad police in the Badhkal Lake waters near dense vegetation area March 3.

Her family members said Pooja had gone from her house to near Summervilla School where her team leader Daljeet Singh had called her for a 'Holi party'. He also reportedly asked Pooja not to bring her identity card and purse.

'When she did not return till next day, we got a missing complaint lodged at Sector-24 police station on March 2 night,' Pooja's brother-in-law Dalip Bhatia said.

On the same day, Pooja's family members met Daljeet Singh and asked him about her whereabouts but he enied any knowledge about her.

Superintendent of Police (City) Ashok Kumar Tripathi said: 'A case of murder had been registered at Sector-24 on family's complaint against Daljeet Singh and another colleague Sandeep Srivastava. Daljeet has been arrested. He objected to the girl's affair with another person.'

Sandeep, according to the family, had worked in the team and had knowledge about Daljeet's proximity to Pooja but still did not reveal to anybody.

Sector 24 police station Inspector B.R. Verma said: 'Daljeet has confessed to murder. The girl had an affair with a boy named Amit Chauhan and Daljeet was jealous. He took her to Surajkund March 1 evening, where they had a heated argument following which he pushed her into Badkal Lake.'