A French judge is expected to extend Dominique Strauss-Kahn's detention for questioning in a prostitution ring case.

The prosecutor who charged Dominique Strauss-Kahn with sexually assaulting a hotel maid said he dropped the case because he ultimately was not sure what transpired between the two.

SHAMED former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn has blamed his sex scandal downfall on the fact “the flesh is weak”.

FORMER IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was tipped to become France’s next president before his US arrest on sex assault charges, later dropped, is suing several newspapers and an adviser of President Nicolas Sarkozy over reports about him, his lawyers said.

A POLICE probe into pimping at a French luxury hotel has uncovered evidence that Dominique Strauss-Kahn attended sex soirees with prostitutes paid for by businessmen.

FRENCH prosecutors will set up a face-to-face meeting between former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the young French writer who has accused him of attempted rape, they said yesterday.

ID Dominique Strauss-Khan get justice? Was he the victim of a system that convicts before charges can even be answered? Or is he a lucky boy, who can thank his powerful position for beating a rap that he deserved?

A judge dismissed the sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn today but put the order on hold for the accuser and her lawyer to ask that a special prosecutor should be appointed.

NEW York prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday, a stunning reversal that could revive the political future of a man many had seen as the next president of France.

FOR all that Bill Clinton might be defined by his marital transgressions, on the political stage he is far from alone: from earliest times, the dark arts have abounded with philanderers.

FRENCH detectives interviewed a young French writer yesterday over her claim that former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in 2003, a judicial official said.

AS ONE of my Facebook friends aptly put it, now that Queen Elizabeth and President Barack Obama have left our shores we’re back to the French and the Germans dropping in to tell us how to run the economy.

Austria's Finance Minister has called for IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn to step down to avoid damaging the institution in the wake of his arrest for sexual assault.

French voters have shrugged at politicians’ infidelities for decades but now some wonder if their tolerance has allowed criminal acts by one of the country’s best-known public figures to go unpunished.