FORMER IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn entered a plea of not guilty yesterday to charges he sexually assaulted a New York hotel maid in a case that cost him his job and a chance at the French presidency.

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn moved from a temporary space in a high-rise to a plush, four-bedroom brick townhouse in New York today, where he will remain under house arrest as he awaits trial for attempted rape.

New tests have found that the DNA of former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn matches material found on the shirt of a hotel maid who says he tried to rape her.

Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of You Light Up My Life who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

The New York apartment building where former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under house arrest on sexual assault charges has become a new tourist hot spot.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from jail to house arrest in a landmark apartment building near New York's ground zero after the luxury apartment where he had arranged to stay fell through because the neighbours objected to the media frenzy.

DOMINIQUE Strauss-Kahn has been released from a New York City jail. The former head of the International Monetary Fund posted $1 million cash and a $5m bond yesterday.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from a New York City jail.

Over the objections of US prosecutors, a judge agreed to free former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn from jail on one million US dollars bail on the condition he be confined to a New York apartment under armed guard while he awaits trial on attempted-rape charges.

A JUDGE agreed yesterday to free former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a New York City jail on the condition he post $1 million (almost €700,00) in bail and remain under house arrest, under the watch of armed guards, at a private apartment in Manhattan.

THE woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn will strongly deny to jurors any assertions that she willingly had sex with the IMF chief, her attorney said.

The US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said Dominique Strauss-Kahn is "not in a position to run" the International Monetary Fund after his arrest over an alleged sexual assault.

Guards at New York City's massive Rikers Island jail complex are taking unusual precautions to make sure IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn does not come to any harm behind bars.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn woke today in a notorious jail on an attempted rape charge as the outside world swirled with questions about the truth of the accusations.

The IMF board has said no decision has been made on the future of its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Rapper Lil Wayne has been released from prison in New York after serving eight months for a gun offence.

Lil Wayne has asked fans to stop sending him mail in prison.

Rapper Lil Wayne will be going solo for the remainder of his prison sentence.

Lil Wayne has been sentenced to three years' probation on a drug possession charge.

A New York teenager accused of robbery has been cleared of all charges after providing a Facebook alibi.

Rapper Foxy Brown is out of jail.

Foxy Brown was singing a different tune when she showed up in court four days after refusing to appear to face assault charges.

McDonald’s Hamburglar may well go to prison after all under a plan to put a fast-food restaurant in New York City’s Rikers Island jail system.

A mysterious electrical problem in New York blamed for subway delays, flight cancellations and power cuts on the hottest days of the year persisted for a fifth day today, leaving 25,000 city customers without power.

A sketch by surrealist artist Salvador Dali has been stolen from the lobby of New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail.