Bill Cosby will be retried in November on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago, after a jury failed to reach a verdict after deliberating for six days.

Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial has ended without a verdict after jurors failed to break a deadlock.

Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial have asked for a definition of "reasonable doubt" on their fifth day of deliberations, a day after telling the judge they were deadlocked on all charges.

Jurors in the Bill Cosby sex assault case have adjourned after considering charges that could send the comedian to prison for the rest of his life.

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

Bill Cosby acknowledged to police more than a decade ago that he fondled Andrea Constand after giving her what he said were cold-and-allergy pills meant to help her relax, his sexual assault trial has heard.

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.

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

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.

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.

A Pennsylvania judge has denied Bill Cosby’s latest bid to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out. The 78-year-old comedian must stand trial.

Comedian Bill Cosby won the right to delay providing evidence in a lawsuit in Massachusetts, in which he is accused of defaming women with public assertions that they fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against him.

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.

A New York venue has axed Bill Cosby's scheduled performance this weekend as the veteran entertainer was engulfed by more sex abuse claims.

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

Pressure on comedian as more women claim they were assaulted

A Florida woman has become the fourth in recent weeks to accuse veteran actor Bill Cosby of giving her pills that made her feel groggy, then forcing himself on her.

Another woman has come forward to claim that comedian Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her, it emerged today.

Comedian Bill Cosby is facing a string of new sex abuse allegations, according to court papers.

Veteran actor Bill Cosby has been rocked by a second allegation of sexual assault, it emerged today.