Weinstein accusers' lawyers could get 10 times more than clients, sources say
Lead attorney for women could receive 25% of payout in settlement which would end most civil lawsuits
Lawyers representing alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein could get as much as 10 times more than some of the accusers themselves if a controversial settlement deal goes ahead, legal sources have told the Guardian.
Last week it was reported that more than 30 women accusing the disgraced Hollywood mogul of sexual misconduct had reached a tentative settlement deal. If approved in court, the settlement will bring to an end most of the civil lawsuits pending against him.
Alaska set for record-breaking warm season despite tumbling temperatures
Weather estimated to drop to minus 60 degrees
Bettles, Alaska hasn’t climbed above 0 degrees in nearly 10 days. Sunday’s high temperature was minus 47 degrees. And at minus 56 degrees this morning, the quiet community of roughly a dozen year-round residents set a daily record low. The frigid temperature rivalled the average winter temperatures found on the surface of Mars.
Bettles is not alone. Much of Alaska’s interior and far north are enduring lows of 35 to 55 degrees below zero. During the daytime, it doesn’t get much better. Highs of around minus 40 are pretty common.
Fairbanks, meanwhile, was forecast to “warm” into the minus 20s on Friday, with a chance of snow flurries and freezing fog.
Hong Kong: Several arrested in protests against mainland shoppers
Fifteen pro-democracy demonstrators who targeted a shopping mall near the border with mainland China have been detained. Hong Kong's protest movement has increased efforts to cause economic disruption over the holidays.
Plain-clothed police backed up by riot officers dispersed a crowd of pro-democracy protesters inside a Hong Kong shopping center on Saturday.
At least 15 people were arrested as clashes broke out inside the mall in Sheung Shui district, close to the border with mainland China.
Car bomb kills dozens in Somali capital Mogadishu
The death toll from a car bomb explosion at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital has risen to at least 76 people, according to an ambulance service official.
Police said the devastating blast targeted a tax collection center during the morning rush hour in Mogadishu as Somalia returned to work after its weekend.
"The number of casualties we have confirmed is 76 dead and 70 wounded, it could still be higher," the director of the private Aamin Ambulance service, Abdukadir Abdirahman Haji, told AFP.
"The number of casualties we have confirmed is 76 dead and 70 wounded, it could still be higher," the director of the private Aamin Ambulance service, Abdukadir Abdirahman Haji, told AFP.
Democracy has taken a detour this century. Can it get back on track?
Updated 0844 GMT (1644 HKT) December 28, 2019
Impeachment proceedings against an American president should be a serious democratic exercise aimed at finding the truth. But remarks from both sides of the aisle suggest the process against Donald Trump will be a futile vote along party lines.
There's something broken in the system, experts say, and Americans are losing faith in it. Americans' public trust in governance is at near historic lows and while the public is split on impeachment, a Pew Research poll shows the majority of Americans don't think either party will be fair or reasonable.
The US is but one of a long list of nations growing frustrated with their democracies. If last century was defined by liberal democracy's rise, the 21st century is so far defined by its decay.
Hong Kong's year in seven intense emotions
28 December 2019
Nobody saw it coming. Hong Kong's year of protest and violence stunned everyone from observers to participants. What started the crisis was political - but emotion has fuelled it.
We picked seven to explain this year of tears, exhilaration, broken relationships and personal pride. Text by the BBC's Grace Tsoi, portrait photographs by Curtis Lo Kwan Long.
Saturday 30 March 2019 was the last normal day. Clear and sunny, it began like any other weekend in Hong Kong with its singular cocktail of frenetic leisure - family lunches, shopping late into the neon-lit night and cute selfies at every opportunity.
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