The leader of the International Monetary Fund, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled off a plane in New York moments before it was to depart for Paris and arrested over sex attack allegations involving a hotel maid.

A nine-year-old girl fatally stabbed an 11-year-old girl in the chest with a steak knife during a fight over a ball, authorities in New York said.

A nine-year-old girl fatally stabbed an 11-year-old girl in the chest with a kitchen knife during a fight over a ball, authorities in New York said.