The BBC's Stephen Sackur reports from Washington

For a second day, newspapers around the world been dominated by the crisis in Washington.

Although many newspapers - especially in Britain - are condeming President Clinton, others are asking why the president's personal life should be made so public.

In an editorial called "Hell is American," the French daily Le Monde, called the Starr investigation a "new McCarthyism," referring to Senator Joe McCarthy who led a bitter campaign in the 1950s to expose public figures suspected of having communist sympathies.

"A president naked in front of the world," read the front page headline in South Korea's Hankook Ilbo newspaper.

Some headlines from the eastern hemisphere rejoice at Mr Clinton's humiliation.

The president made news around the world

The Iraqi daily Babel - owned by President Saddam Hussein's son, Uday - hopes the Starr report will be "a death-blow for Clinton".

According to an editorial in the Bangkok Post, America cannot fulfil its proper role in the world with Clinton at the helm. It says the president must resign.

And the Times of India was tempted to paraphrase Macaulay: "We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the American public in one of its periodical fits of morality."

Asia looks away

Asia is more worried about the economy

But no all the world's media has been interested in the scandal.

Vietnam's state-controlled press has made no mention of the Lewinsky affair since the Starr report was published on Friday.

In China, where the personal lives of their politicians are strictly off-bounds to the media, there has been limited coverage.

Japanese papers have moved their coverage to the inside pages.

But an editorial in the in the Japanese Asahi newspaper calls Mr Starr's report "vivid and disgusting." The paper bemoans the damage done to the US president at a time his leadership is needed to deal with the Asian economic crisis, worldwide threats of terrorism and economic and political strife in Russia.

US press continues scrutiny

Predictably, the US media continued with its wall-to-wall coverage of the crisis facing the president.

The Washington Post - the newspaper at the centre of the Watergate investigation - said Congress must begin impeachment hearings against Clinton.

But it also lambasted Mr Starr's attempt to embarrass the president with a report that "resembles a steamy paperback".

The Sunday editorial concluded that Mr Starr's errors do not save Mr Clinton.

"For even when the excesses are stripped away, the case he has presented is serious, while Mr Clinton's current defence is contemptible."

The New York Times - traditionally a Clinton ally - wrote: "A president who had hoped to be remembered for the grandeur of his social legislation will instead be remembered for the tawdriness of his tastes and conduct."

The Philadelphia Inquirer joins in the calls for the president to resign, saying "it's the honourable thing."

The San Francisco Chronicle says: "As far as we're concerned, he can swing in the wind.