Switzerland will make an announcement today about film director Roman Polanski’s extradition to the United States for a 1977 sex case.

Los Angeles prosecutors have met a British actress who claims she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski when she was 16 - years before she appeared in one of his films.

Roman Polanski's lawyers issued a lengthy statement today, describing a request for his extradition from Switzerland as incomplete and unfair.

Roman Polanski's attorneys argued in US court filings that the Swiss government should not automatically assume an extradition request by Los Angeles prosecutors is accurate.

Roman Polanski's lawyers filed a last legal volley in a California appeals court, saying that the 33-year-old sex case and its lengthy delays were an assault on the state's judicial system.

Switzerland will decide on extraditing Roman Polanski after a California court rules whether he can be sentenced in his absence over a 33-year-old sex case.

A Los Angeles judge said tonight fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the US to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case.

A US prosecutor filed legal papers renewing his opposition to sentencing fugitive movie director Roman Polanski in absentia in a 32-year-old sex case.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has asked a judge to sentence him in his absence over a child sex case, a Los Angeles court was told early today.

Roman Polanski’s long-running sex case could soon be settled in a court deal even as the fugitive film director remains under house arrest in Switzerland.

Roman Polanski’s long-delayed criminal case will return to a Los Angeles court tomorrow for a hearing.

Film director Roman Polanski was freed into house arrest today after two months in a Swiss jail.

Roman Polanski will be held in jail until at least Friday because he needs more time to pay his $4.5m (€3m) bail, Swiss authorities said today.

Roman Polanski is expected to trade the confines of a Swiss jail this week for house arrest in a luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will await a Swiss decision whether to extradite him to the US on child sex charges.

The US has formally requested the extradition of imprisoned director Roman Polanski for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl, the Swiss government said today.

Lawyers for Roman Polanski clashed today over his legal strategy, with one saying the director will not surrender to US authorities after 31 years on the run and another suggesting that Polanski was ready to consider the move.

Swiss justice officials laid the ground for the arrest of film director Roman Polanski, it was confirmed today.

Jailed film director Roman Polanski suffered another setback in his fight against extradition today when a Swiss court refused him bail for fear he would flee the country.

Swiss parliamentarians today backed their government for ordering the arrest of Roman Polanski on a US warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

The Swiss Justice Ministry has rejected an appeal from Roman Polanski to be released from prison pending his possible extradition to the US.

The Swiss Justice Ministry said today that it will decide this week whether to grant a request from film director Roman Polanski to be released from prison.

Roman Polanski will today try to win release from the Swiss prison cell where he is being held awaiting extradition to the US.

An international row was brewing today over the arrest of film director Roman Polanski as artists and politicians leapt to his defence.