A federal judge has rejected a bid by two women to join a high-profile sexual abuse lawsuit and ordered scandalous sex allegations against the Duke of York and a prominent US lawyer removed from the court record.

Buckingham Palace has issued a second denial that the Duke of York had sexual contact with a woman who claims she was forced to have sex with him when she was under age.

Buckingham Palace has issued a second denial that the Duke of York had sexual contact with a woman who claims she was forced to have sex with him when she was underage.

The former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament will hear today if United Nations judges will overturn his conviction for orchestrating ethnic cleansing campaigns that killed thousands of Muslims and Croats.