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| Britain's Channel 5 owner exploring possible sale: FT Wednesday, Jan 01, 2014 02:45 PM PST (Reuters) - The owner of Britain's free-to-air Channel 5 is exploring a possible sale of the TV broadcaster, the Financial Times reported, citing two people familiar with the situation. Northern & Shell, which is owned by the British media baron Richard Desmond, bought Channel 5 in 2010 for 103.5 million pounds from the RTL group and has since turned the channel's fortunes around. Channel 5 made a profit of 20.6 million pounds in the first half of 2013 up from a loss of 16.1 million a year earlier. Northern & Shell also owns the Express group of newspapers, Daily Star and Daily Express, and other magazines including celebrity magazine OK! "As a media group with a broad portfolio of assets, we are often the subject of speculation, but it remains our policy not to comment on these matters," Northern & Shell was quoted by FT as saying. Full Story | Top |
| 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' actor James Avery dead at 65 Wednesday, Jan 01, 2014 01:12 PM PST  James Avery, a classically trained actor best known for his role as the wealthy uncle of the young rapper Will Smith in the 1990s television comedy "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," has died at age 65. Avery's death was confirmed to CNN by his publicist, and more widely in a Twitter message on Wednesday by one of the actor's TV co-stars, Alfonso Ribeiro, who played his son, Carlton, on "Fresh Prince." "I'm deeply saddened to say that James Avery has passed away. Avery's voice was heard in many animated TV series, including "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Iron Man," and he guest-starred on "That '70s Show" as a police officer. But the Atlantic City, New Jersey native gained fame on television playing family patriarch Uncle Philip Banks on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which starred Will Smith as a young rap artist from a tough Philadelphia neighborhood who ends up living with well-heeled relatives in the affluent Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. Full Story | Top |
| The invisible man: Bill Burns and the secret Iran talks Wednesday, Jan 01, 2014 07:59 AM PST  By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The night before a round of high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran, U.S. President Barack Obama told his chief of staff he had "absolute confidence we have the right team on the field." Obama was not referring to his public negotiating team, led by senior State Department official Wendy Sherman, nor even to his secretary of state, John Kerry, who was soon to sweep in from Tel Aviv to join the early November discussions in Geneva. Rather, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough recalled, Obama was talking about a secret group led by Bill Burns, Kerry's discreet, disciplined and self-effacing deputy. At times using U.S. military aircraft, hotel side entrances and service elevators to keep his role under wraps, Burns undertook arguably the most sensitive diplomatic mission of Obama's presidency: secret talks with Iran to persuade it to curb its nuclear program. In picking Burns, seen by his peers as a leading U.S. diplomat of his generation, Obama gave the envoy, who speaks Arabic, French and Russian, a chance to ease more than 30 years of estrangement between the United States and Iran. Full Story | Top |
| Factbox: Bill Burns - from junior diplomat to deputy secretary of state Wednesday, Jan 01, 2014 07:27 AM PST (Reuters) - Below is the trajectory of Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns 31-year rise from a consular officer at the U.S. embassy in Amman to the State Department's second-ranking official. 1982 Entered Foreign Service 1982-1984 Consular/Political Officer, Amman, Jordan 1984-1985 Staff Assistant, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs 1985-1986 Special Assistant, Deputy Secretary's office 1986-1989 National Security Council staff, Near East office 1989-1993 Deputy Director, Acting Director, Policy Planning Staff 1993-1994 Russian language training, Garmisch, Germany 1994-1996 Political Counselor, ... Full Story | Top |
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