The woman mauled by a chimpanzee in Stamford, Conn., in February 2009 is making a last-ditch appeal to Connecticut lawmakers in her bid to sue the state for $150 million. Charla Nash is attending a hearing on Friday to describe to lawmakers the ordeal she has endured for the past five years.

Charlie Sheen’s ongoing feud with ex-wife Denise Richards took a bitter turn when the Anger Management actor asked her to “get out” of his luxury mansion. Sheen has asked Richards to move out of the multi-million dollar manor along with daughters, Sam and Lola, RadarOnline reported.

Stephen Hawking has claimed victory in a bet with a rival scientist after an experiment indicated that his theories about the origins of the universe were correct. Prof Hawking, director of research at Cambridge University’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, clinched bragging rights over former colleague Prof Neil Turok following American researchers’ discovery of evidence of cosmic ‘inflation’.

The FBI is helping Malaysian authorities to analyse data from a flight simulator belonging to the captain of a missing Malaysian airliner, a U.S. official said on Wednesday as investigators grasped for clues 12 days after the plane vanished.

A college student from Winnetka, Ill. learned the hard way about not paying attention after she was charged nearly $800 for a 10-minute cab ride without first checking her receipt. The incident occurred in December when 20-year-old Becky Siegel was running late to meet friends at a restaurant in downtown Chicago. After taking a train to the Ogilvie Transportation Center, …

Star Trek actor Chris Pine pleaded guilty Monday, March 17, to drunk driving in New Zealand and had his licence suspended for six months, reports said. Pine, 33, was charged after he failed a breath test this month in the South Island town of Methven, where he had been attending a party after completing the science fiction film Z for …

On Monday, a police chaplain told Lori Baker that her 24-year-old daughter Samantha had been killed — hit by a pickup truck while crossing a street in Spanaway. Baker was in disbelief, but had no reason to doubt the report, as the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office had identified the body. “This wasn’t one of her friends that told me, …

The Montana bride Jordan Graham who pushed husband off cliff could face life in prison. U.S. prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for Graham who struck a deal in December and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the high-profile July 7 death of her husband of eight days, Cody Johnson. She is due to be sentenced next week.

Renowned fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the long-time girlfriend of ‘Rolling Stones’ icon Mick Jagger, committed suicide by hanging at her New York City apartment, the Medical Examiner’s Office said on Wednesday, confirming previous media reports

Occasional song singer Kian Egan reckons that his former group Westlife would have been pretty disappointed back in their heyday with the kind of record sales being achieved by those One Direction scamps. Even though 1D scored the best selling UK album of 2013, the units shifted overall wouldn’t have impressed Team Westlife circa 2001, Egan says. Though of course …

A 10ft tall bird-like dinosaur dubbed the “chicken from hell” has been revealed by scientists. Anzu Wyliei weighed 500lbs and lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex 66 million years ago. It sported a cockscomb crest on top of its head and also had rudimentary feathers, sharp claws and a toothless beak. It is thought to have eaten both vegetation and small animals.