PROSECUTORS have dropped all sex-related charges against a 15-year-old New Jersey girl who was accused of selling her seven-year-old stepsister to a group of men and boys for sex.

PROSECUTORS yesterday opened an official investigation into claims that France’s richest woman secretly funded President Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign.

PROSECUTORS closed their case against music producer Phil Spector with sarcastic attacks on his team’s scientific experts and called on Los Angeles jurors to do justice for the actress found shot to death in his US home.

PROSECUTORS filed charges yesterday against Poland’s last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, in connection with his imposition of martial law in 1981 as the Soviet -backed regime tried to crush the Solidarity pro-democracy movement.