World Scene: Switzerland

$4.5m bail for Polanski

Roman Polanski was granted $4.5 million bail on Wednesday, clearing the way for the fugitive director to move within days from a Swiss jail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Alpine resort chalet. Polanski would have to remain in Switzerland as authorities assess whether to extradite him to the US for having sex in Los Angeles in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.