Harvey Weinstein, women who accused him of sexual misconduct, his former film studio's board members and the New York attorney general's office have reached a tentative $44 million deal to resolve lawsuits and compensate alleged victims of the Hollywood producer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people it said were familiar with the matter.

Local communities that occupied and stopped operations at an oil flow station in the Niger Delta have continued to agitate for compensation from international oil major Shell, over loss of livelihood and environmental pollution.

An East German refugee had applied for compensation after being traumatized during a hair-raising escape. He was trapped on a barbed wire fence when border guards found him.

A German city seized a pug from an indebted family and sold her on eBay, but her new owner soon noticed the dog had an eye infection and had to pay for the surgery. A court will now decide if the city owes compensation.

More than 1,300 people have tested positive at a Tönnies slaughterhouse, causing Germany's transmission rate to rocket. Germany's labor minister says the firm should pay compensation.

As colonial symbols come under scrutiny in Belgium, five mixed-race women have sued the Belgian state for "crimes against humanity". Now over 70 years old, these women were born in what was then Belgian Congo, the present-day DRC.

As colonial symbols come under scrutiny in Belgium, five mixed-race women have sued the Belgian state for "crimes against humanity". Now over 70 years old, these women were born in what was then Belgian Congo, the present-day DRC. The offspring of Congolese mothers and European fathers, they were abducted from their mothers to be placed in religious institutions and subject to the supervision of the state. These children were seen as a threat by the Belgian state, which feared that they would rise up against the colonial order. Our Brussels correspondents report.

Homosexual soldiers who faced discrimination in Germany's Bundeswehr army could receive financial compensation, according to the draft of a new bill. The judgments of military courts will also be revoked.

Land acquisition: More than 600 new claimants in court for compensation

Victims of alleged police brutality seek N1billion compensation in Rivers

Wife of slain vendor denies knowledge of N500m compensation demanded from Speaker Gbajabiamila

The Lagos State judicial panel of inquiry on SARS-related matters has begun hearing the petition of Titi Egbaiyeyomi over the detention and alleged extra judicial killing of her son Taiwo by SARS officers in November 2006.