Business Secretary Vince Cable unveils plans designed to curb executive pay, including giving shareholders the power to block excessive bonuses.

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Heidi Klum and Seal have confirmed that their seven-year marriage is over. “While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul-searching we have decided to separate,” the couple said in a statement , according to the Associated Press. “We have had the deepest respect for one another throughout our relationship and continue to love each other very much, but we have grown apart. This is an amicable process and protecting the well-being of our children remains our top priority, especially during this time of transition.” Read full article > >

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Filthy-minded callers fluster cable news hosts.

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CSPAN Hit By Romney Pranksters

Police describe the rape of a 75-year-old woman in her home in Greater Manchester by a man who forced his way in as a “despicable” crime.

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Intruder rapes woman, 75, in flat

Influenced by cable and the Internet, the network news divisions of ABC, CBS and NBC have shifted the focus to differentiating their nightly shows.

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At ABC, CBS and NBC News, Accentuating the Differences

As part of a five-year deal, the race will be carried for three and a half hours on ESPN2, which reaches nearly every household with cable or satellite television.

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New York City Marathon to Be Shown Live Nationally

The cable network follows myriad story lines with a nearly relentless ardor in “24/7 Flyers/Rangers: Road to the N.H.L. Winter Classic.”

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TV Sports: With ‘24/7,’ HBO Refines a Winning Formula

As cable companies race to evolve, their front-line workers try to keep up with new dress codes and backgrounds in engineering and computer science.

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Today’s Cable Guy, Upgraded and Better-Dressed

Even before the first Republican presidential candidates declared they were running, pundits and political operatives alike were debating the Fox News Channel’s potential influence on the GOP race. As the cable news network with the strongest appeal among conservatives, Fox News seemed poised to play a kingmaking role in the 2012 primaries. Read full article > >

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Despite kingmaking expectations, Fox News seems neutral among GOP field

He was a classic Washington character: High school dweeb turned swaggering pol, with a gorgeous power wife , a gift for cable-news combat and an eye on higher office. But then he became the poster boy for whatever madness infected men in politics this year — Chris Lee , John Ensign , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Arnold Schwarzenegger , David Wu , Herman Cain . Weiner’s scandal didn’t just represent the volatile mix of sex and power — an old story — but the new impulse-control risks of Twitter (which also tripped up Ashton Kutcher and that guy who bashed Lara Logan , plus some very foolish young Hill staffers ). Weinergate also brought a modicum of social progress: Unlike so many other political wives, Huma Abedin did not stand alongside her man at his confessional press conference. All this for a sex scandal that, apparently, didn’t involve any. (See also: Rita Jenrette , who now says she never actually had sex on the Capitol steps .) But his soap-opera year had a sweet ending Wednesday — the birth of his and Abedin’s first child , a son, Jordan Zane Weiner . And yes, they’re still together. Read full article > >

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The Reliable Source Person of the Year 2011: Anthony Weiner

“I’ll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes,” former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Fox News’s Sean Hannity back in March about HBO’s upcoming flick detailing Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, in which Palin will be played by Julianne Moore. Well, on Wednesday, the teeth-gritting began: HBO sent out a video tease that offered a very quick look at Moore’s chameleon-like performance in “Game Change,” based on book of same name, which the pay cable network will debut in March. Read full article > >

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HBO releases first trailer for ‘Game Change’; stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Ed Harris as John McCain (Video)

“I’ll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes,” former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Fox News’s Sean Hannity back in March about HBO’s upcoming flick detailing Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, in which Palin will be played by Julianne Moore. Well, on Wednesday, the teeth-gritting began: HBO sent out a video tease that offered a very quick look at Moore’s chameleon-like performance in “Game Change,” based on book of same name, which the pay cable network will debut in March. Read full article > >

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HBO releases first trailer for ‘Game Change’; stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Ed Harris as John McCain (Video)

David Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change was “largely political”, Business Secretary Vince Cable tells the BBC.

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The government will accept a report which recommended separating banks’ retail business from their investment business “in full”, Business Secretary Vince Cable says.

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Banking report ‘accepted in full’

Among the themes of “All-American Muslim,” a cable reality show about the daily lives of five families in Dearborn, Mich., is the suspicion and bias that ordinary Muslims face in a nation uneasy about all things Islamic after Sept. 11, 2001. As it happens, reality has caught up to reality TV. Peppered by a conservative group’s complaints about the program, the Lowe’s home-improvement chain last week pulled its sponsorship — and has been fielding countercomplaints that the company had caved in to the very prejudices faced by the program’s protagonists. Read full article > >

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Reality TV catches up to reality with Muslim show