Bailout talks in crisis as IMF chief charged with sex attack

European debt crisis talks have fallen into disarray as the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was charged with sexually assaulting a maid in a New York hotel.

Strauss-Kahn has agreed to undergo forensic tests in a bid to prove he is not guilty of the assault, the Guardian reports. His court hearing was delayed and he remained in jail last night after consenting to a medical examinations at the request of the government. He had been due to be arraigned in a Manhattan court on Sunday but the hearing has now been put over to Monday. At the weekend Strauss-Kahn was taken from the first class cabin of a Paris-bound Air France flight at JFK airport before police formally arrested him on charges of a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawfu...