BBC news with Marion Marshall.

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and a hotel maid who accused him of attempting to rape her have reached a settlement in a civil case. The announcement end an episode that cost him his job and his hopes of becoming French president, it's not clear how much he paid, as our correspondent Laura Trevelyan reports.

Well, the agreement itself is confidential, so we don't know the figure that the two parties settled on. Dominique Strauss-Kahn himself was not here in court, but Nafissatou Diallo was. She spoke briefly to reporters she thanked everyone around the world who had supported her and that was it. And really this case remains something of a mystery. We still don't know what happened in that Hotel Sofitel back in May, 2011 when the then head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn had a sexual encounter with Nafissatou Diallo. Prosecutors here in New York dropped that case because they decided that Nafissatou Diallo had what they called “credibility issues”.

The Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has given the army temporary power to arrest civilians in the run-up to Saturday's referendum on a controversial new constitution. Opponents say supporters of Mr. Mursi planned to demonstrate on Tuesday. The BBC Cairo correspondent says the move will increase fears among some Egyptians that the country is slipping back to authoritarian rule.

The former Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi has gone on trial in the capital Tripoli. Mr. al-Mahmoudi is the fourth senior official from the Gadaffi era to be prosecuted in Libya. From Tripoli, Rana Jawad reports.