"They locked my father and my mother inside the toilet. Six of them, they raped me. They took our belongings. My father tried to stop them. They hit my father with gun and carried him away. Since that day, I've not heard from my father. He's nowhere to be found."

In his first interview since losing his job as the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has admitted that he was

morally

at fault when he had sex with a hotel maid in New York, but he told French television that he hadn't raped her. From Paris, Christian Fraser reports.

If Dominique Strauss-Kahn still

harbour

s any ambitions as a politician - and from the tenor of this interview, clearly he does - then this was a performance that ticked all the right boxes. There was

humility

: first an apology to his wife, Anne Sinclair, who has stood so loyally by him; and second to the French people, with whom he said "I have missed my appointment",

referring to

his aborted campaign to run for president. He admitted his actions in the Manhattan hotel room were a "moral failing", but he denied passionately quoting from the prosecutor's report in his hand that he sexually assaulted the maid.

Switzerland's biggest bank UBS says unauthorised trading by an employee in Britain cost it more than it first feared. UBS now puts the losses at $2.3bn, an increase of $300m. On Friday, the trader, Kweku Adoboli, was charged with fraud and false accounting. UBS said he'd