Helg Sgarbi, dubbed Swiss gigolo by the media, has been sentenced to six years in prison Monday after admitting that he tried to blackmail Germany’s richest woman out of millions of euros.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has joined the cast of the new Melrose Place. She will play “small-town girl Violet, a character whose disarming naiveté masks the calculating, shrewd sex kitten within.”

Barbie celebrates her 50th birthday today and parties will be taking place across the globe to mark the occasion.

Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was certain that Ronald Cotton raped her in Burlington, North Carolina on the night of July 28, 1984. She picked him out of a lineup and, on the basis of her testimony, he was sentenced to life plus 50 years. However, 11 years later, new DNA evidence established his innocence.

Critically acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies. The movie is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34.

The much-anticipated release of Watchmen, the film adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, got mixed reviews, but that did not lessen the high level of interest among comic book fans.

A pastor has been killed and other people injured in a shooting at a church in Illinois. The gunman walked into a service at the First Baptist Church in Maryville and exchanged words with Rev. Fred Winters and then shot him with a .45 caliber handgun, the state police said.

It’s Daylight saving time once again!

The Ultimate Fighting Championship headed back to Nationwide Arena in Columbus Ohio for UFC 96. The Main event of the evening was a title bout between the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Keith Jardine.

According to a report, a U.S. federal judge has approved the use of the microblogging service Twitter to provide updates from a trial in a landmark ruling for the American legal system.