Des O’Sullivan previews an event set to bring plenty of Hollywood glamour to Newbridge, Co Kildare.

A French attorney has said he is aware of new allegations by a German woman who claims filmmaker Roman Polanski sexually assaulted her 45 years ago.

THE Festival of Youth Orchestras takes place at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Saturday. Along with groups from all over the country, Cork School of Music’s Chamber Orchestra will be taking to the road.

Madonna is dating her 26-year-old backup dancer Timor Steffens.

Madonna has come under fire for posting pictures of her teenage son with a bottle of alcohol.

Top seed and home favourite Roger Federer suffered an early exit from the Credit Agricole Suisse Open as big-hitting Daniel Brands powered his way into the quarter-finals.

Roger Federer’s latest attempt to find a way out of his slide sees him turn to the comforts of home.

Two years ago, police in Zurich, Switzerland, led Roman Polanski away to prison - but the Oscar-winning director returned last night to a very different reception in the city.

THE Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man yesterday after rejecting a US request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Switzerland today rejected a US request to extradite film director Roman Polanski on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

World number 21 Fernando Gonzalez will be out of action for 10 weeks with a knee injury, ruling him out of Chile's team for next month's Davis Cup quarter-final against Czech Republic.

Actor and film maker Woody Allen restated his support for fugitive director Roman Polanski, under house arrest over a 33-year-old child sex scandal.

Roman Polanski's lawyers issued a lengthy statement today, describing a request for his extradition from Switzerland as incomplete and unfair.

Roman Polanski's attorneys argued in US court filings that the Swiss government should not automatically assume an extradition request by Los Angeles prosecutors is accurate.

Fugitive film-maker Roman Polanski has broken his silence on extradition demands by the US over a 33-year-old under-age sex case.

Roman Polanski’s loss of a crucial California court decision set up his return to the United States more than three decades after he fled a statutory rape charge, Swiss legal experts said.

Roman Polanski’s victim cannot ask for the 32-year-old sex case to be dismissed against the fugitive film director or affect the case, US prosecutors told a court.

A Turkish film which tells the story of a six-year-old boy who stops speaking when his father disappears – Bal (or Honey) – won the top honour at this year’s Berlin film festival today.

Swiss authorities today refused to extradite Roman Polanski until a US court rules definitively that the director must face further sentencing in person in a 32-year-old sex case.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the US to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case, a Los Angeles judge said.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has asked a judge to sentence him in his absence over a child sex case, a Los Angeles court was told early today.

FILM director Roman Polanski was freed into house arrest yesterday after two months in a Swiss jail.

Film director Roman Polanski was freed into house arrest today after two months in a Swiss jail.

FILM-MAKER Roman Polanski, who is fighting extradition to the United States on a child sex conviction, will be released on bail tomorrow and taken to his chalet, the Swiss justice ministry said.

Roman Polanski will be held in jail until at least Friday because he needs more time to pay his $4.5m (€3m) bail, Swiss authorities said today.

Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will await a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the US on child sex charges.

A SWISS court granted Roman Polanski bail yesterday, accepting $4.5 million (€3m) to allow him remain under house arrest at his chalet. The director will stay in prison for up to 10 days while the Swiss government decides whether to appeal.

Lawyers for Roman Polanski clashed today over his legal strategy, with one saying the director will not surrender to US authorities after 31 years on the run and another suggesting that Polanski was ready to consider the move.

Jailed film director Roman Polanski suffered another setback in his fight against extradition today when a Swiss court refused him bail for fear he would flee the country.

As it is, though, Hollywood apart, most Americans seem to think that Polanski must have what is coming to him and that those who call for bygones to be bygones fail to understand that the law is bigger than any of thosewho break it.

A DEFIANT Roman Polanski yesterday vowed to fight US attempts to extradite him from a Swiss jail cell to be sentenced for having sex with an underage girl 32 years ago.

The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated today as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail.

An international row was brewing today over the arrest of film director Roman Polanski as artists and politicians leapt to his defence.

Third seed Igor Andreev tumbled out of the Swiss Open at the semi-final stage today as unseeded Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci set up a meeting with Germany’s Andreas Beck in tomorrow’s final in Gstaad.

FORMULA ONE boss Bernie Ecclestone was last night facing a multi-billion-pound divorce battle.

Italian designer Valentino, whose signature flaming red couture gowns have graced royalty, Hollywood stars and the international jet set for 45 years, announced today he was stepping down as head designer of the Valentino fashion house.

LIKE a blond Robbie Williams wired into the national grid, the Fine Gael leader burst onto the floodlit stage of his party’s ard fheis screaming: “Come on! Let me Enda-tain you!”

British singer James Blunt plans to move to an exclusive Swiss ski resort, local officials said today.