A conviction could send Cosby, 79, to prison for the rest of his life.

Bill Cosby's chief accuser took the stand at his sexual assault trial to tell her story publicly for the first time, saying the comedian gave her pills that left her paralysed and helpless, before groping her.

Bill Cosby has also suggested racism "could be" behind the scores of accusations against him.

Three women who accused Bill Cosby of the intentional infliction of emotional distress have had their claims dismissed.

A sequestered jury from an outside county will decide the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a suburban Philadelphia judge has ruled.

Bill Cosby's lawyers are pushing to have the actor's trial moved from the Philadelphia suburbs because of worldwide media reports that brand him "a serial rapist".

A judge will let only one other accuser testify at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial to bolster charges that the actor drugged and molested a woman at his estate near Philadelphia.

A judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against comedian Bill Cosby, although he still faces criminal charges in Pennsylvania.

US entertainer Bill Cosby's lawyers are set to argue that prosecutors are reaching back to the "casting couch" era to round up female accusers and build a "stale" sexual assault case against him.

Bill Cosby has lost an attempt to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out. In a ruling, the judge who refused to dismiss the case earlier this month denied Cosby’s appeal against that decision.

A judge refused to throw out the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby last night, sweeping aside claims that a previous district attorney had granted the comedian immunity from prosecution a decade ago.

Bill Cosby’s top legal adviser has said he never would have let the comedian testify in a 2005 lawsuit if he thought Cosby could still face sexual assault charges in the matter.

The former district attorney who declined a decade ago to bring sex-crime charges against Bill Cosby has testified that he believes his decision is binding on his successors and forever closes the door on prosecuting the comedian.

Bill Cosby’s lawyer has claimed that the sexual assault case against the comedian was politically motivated, brought by a newly-elected district attorney to make good on a campaign pledge.

Bill Cosby has been charged with felony sexual assault over an incident in 2004 at his Philadelphia-area mansion, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said yesterday, in the first criminal case involving the comedian after years of mounting accusations.

Bill Cosby, 78, has filed legal papers against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, condemning her “obvious attempt to smear” him.

Bill Cosby, in sworn testimony a decade ago, said he had paid women after sex to keep the affairs from his wife, suggested he was skilled at understanding nonverbal cues for sexual consent and called one of his accusers a liar.

While many of Bill Cosby’s accusers feel vindicated by his decade-old admission that he gave at least one woman quaaludes before sex, some of his Hollywood friends are reserving judgment, saying the testimony doesn’t prove he committed a crime.

Bill Cosby’s admission that he obtained quaaludes to give to women he was pursuing for sex could bolster defamation claims lodged by his accusers, the women’s lawyers said after The Associated Press reported on newly released court documents.

ENGLAND: They just cannot Let It Go ... Leigh Dryden and her three boys can lay claim to being Britain’s biggest Frozen fans after watching the film an astounding 500 times.

The US Navy is revoking Bill Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer, saying allegations of sexual abuse made against the comedian are serious and conflict with the navy’s core values.

Bill Cosby is being sued by a woman alleging he molested her in 1974 at the Playboy Mansion in LA when she was 15, in what is believed to be the first court case arising from a recent wave of sexual misconduct accusations against the comedian.

A Southern California woman has sued Bill Cosby, claiming the comedian molested her in the 1970s when she was 15.

Bill Cosby has resigned as a trustee of Temple University in Philadelphia amid a string of sexual assault allegations.

US comedian and actor Bill Cosby’s record of big donations to colleges and other institutions has been a key part of his rosy public image – but the rising tide of allegations made by women accusing him of sexual assault is threatening to overshadow his generosity.

Putting children to bed earlier may be a simple way to keep their weight down, research has shown.

US actor Patrick Cronin returns to his Cork roots for an iconic role, says Colette Sheridan

A Limerick hockey player admits she’s flabbergasted by the online frenzy surrounding a wonder goal she scored in America last weekend.

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from “collusion” among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years.

ABBY MANN, writer of socially-conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for Judgment at Nuremberg, has died aged 80. The cause of death was not given.

DONEL HARDY and John Allison figure they must be a very lucky couple indeed.

Bill Cosby has settled a civil lawsuit filed by a woman who said the entertainer drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home outside Philadelphia.

THE earliest confirmed autopsy in North America was conducted more than 400 years ago by French colonists desperate to determine what was killing them as they endured a rugged winter on St Croix Island, scientists have concluded.

COMEDIAN Bill Cosby is at the centre of a sex scandal following allegations that he drugged and sexually molested a woman.

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson tore into organised religion during his lecture at an American university last Monday.