Strauss-Kahn 'has no immunity'

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity from a lawsuit by a hotel maid who claims he sexually assaulted her in his room, according to court papers.

The papers quote the IMF and the US State Department as saying Mr Strauss-Kahn was not immune in the days after the May encounter at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan, New York.