CAIRO (AP) -- A curfew was to begin Monday after Egypt's president declared a state of emergency in three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by a weekend wave of unrest that left more than 50 dead and plunged the nation further into turmoil. Evander Kane taps in overtime winner for Jets; Winnipeg wins third straight
WINNIPEG – A breakaway goal may have put him in the highlight reels, but Evander Kane was happy with his tap-in overtime winner on Sunday.
Exclusive: Japan eased safety standards ahead of Boeing 787 rollout
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government stepped in to give Boeing Co’s now-grounded 787 Dreamliner and its made-in-Japan technology a boost in 2008 by easing safety regulations, fast-tracking the rollout of the groundbreaking jet for Japan’s biggest airlines, according to records and participants in the process. …
BaFin probes lenders Deutsche Bank over Euribor: paper
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German regulator BaFin has launched a special probe against four lenders including Deutsche Bank as part of an investigation into possible manipulation of the Europe Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor), the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Monday. A special probe is the most severe kind of investigation the regulator can launch against a bank. The German regulator is also investigating Portigon AG , Sueddeutsche Zeitung said, without citing sources. Portigon is what remains following the breakup of the bank that used to be known as WestLB. … Investigation into Boeing 787 battery problems moves to maker of monitoring system
TOKYO – The joint U.S. and Japanese investigation into the Boeing 787′s battery problems has moved from the battery-maker to the manufacturer of a monitoring system.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp won back the crown as the world's top selling automaker in 2012, posting record-high sales to beat riv als General Motors and Volkswagen . Toyota said on Monday it sold 9.75 million vehicles group-wide around the world last year, a record for the 75-year-old Japanese automaker and up 22.6 percent from 2011 when it was hit by a U.S. recall and disrupted supply chains following an earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand. The Toyota group also includes sales by Daihatsu Motor Co and Hino Motors Ltd . Toyota on its own sold 8. … 
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co sold a record 4.94 million vehicles globally in 2012, up 5.8 percent from a year ago, Japan's second biggest automaker said on Monday . In 2011, Nissan sold 4.67 million vehicles globally. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Mayumi Negishi) 
C AIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi declared a month-long state of emergency in three cities along the Suez Canal where dozens of people have been killed over the past four days in protests that his allies say are designed to overthrow him. Seven people were shot dead and hundreds were injured in Port Said on Sunday during the funerals of 33 people killed there when locals angered by a court decision went on the rampage as anti-government protests spread around the country. … 
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese equities rose on Monday as the yen extended losses to fresh lows, further improving earnings prospects for exporters as Japan's corporate reporting season ente rs full swing this week. Global investor sentiment improved on Friday due to brighter prospects for the European economy and its debt crisis as well as solid U.S. corporate earnings. Japan's Nikkei stock average traded 0.7 percent higher after jumping 2.9 percent on Friday to log an 11th straight week of gains, its longest such run since 1971. Against the yen, the dollar hit 91. … 
URIBANA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities transferred i nmates out of a prison on Sunday following a bloody riot two days earlier that killed 58 people and again highlighted chaos in the country's jails. It was the fourth high-profile incident in 18 months in a penal system that has experienced repeated fatal clashes and shootouts. Venezuela's prisons house three times the number of inmates they were designed to hold. … 
SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) – A nightclub fire killed at least 233 people in southern Brazil on Sunday when a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze and fleeing partygoers stampeded toward b locked exits in the ensuing panic. Most of those who died were suffocated by toxic fumes that rapidly filled the crowded club after sparks from pyrotechnics used by the band for visual effects set fire to soundproofing on the ceiling, local fire officials said. "Smoke filled the place instantly, the heat became unbearable," survivor Murilo Tiescher, a medical student, told GloboNews TV. … 
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Internal reviews by banks in Si ngapore have found evidence that traders colluded to manipulate rates in the offshore foreign exchange market, according to a source with knowledge of the inquiries. The discovery widens a global lending rate scandal into new markets, as fallout from the Libor case puts banks under added scrutiny and spurs both regulators and institutions to reconsider how certain key interest and currency rates are set. … 
LONDON (Reuters) – Bank of America has begun moving $50 billion of deriva tives out of its Irish-based operations into its British subsidiary, The Financial Times reported on its website on Sunday, citing people close to the operation. The move will allow the world's number 10 bank by assets to benefit from tax breaks stemming from accumulated losses in its UK business, the FT said. According to the Financial Times, bankers said Irish officials were uncomfortable with the scale of the business which posed a theoretical risk to Irish taxpayers. … 
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia prepared to put whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial more than three years after his death, with a preliminary h earing set for Monday in a move relatives and rights groups called politically motivated and a travesty of justice. Magnitsky's death in a Moscow jail has harmed Russia's image abroad and badly strained relations with the United States. His mother and her lawyer said they refused to participate. "I think it is inhuman to try a dead man," Magnitsky's mother Natalya told Reuters by telephone. … 
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Lee Hsien Yang, the brother of Singapore's prime minister and chairman of Fraser and Neave Ltd (F&N), will enter a new chapter in his corporate life – and could well leave F&N – as the group looks set to be taken over by Thailand's third-richest man. Lee, 55, the second son of Singapore's founding leader Lee Kuan Yew, oversaw a bidding war for F&N that led to Southeast Asia's biggest corporate takeover. The deal values the 130-year-old drinks and property conglomerate at around $11 billion and will reward shareholders handsomely. … 
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Five years ago during the c losing speeches of a summit in Chile, Spain's king told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" in an exchange that epitomized the fruitless meetings between Europe and Latin America at the time. Dominated by leftist rhetoric and instability in the Andes, the summits were sideshows to the rapid economic growth in Europe that followed the introduction of the euro a decade ago, and the concerns of Madrid and Brussels lay elsewhere. … 
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Seven years after suffering a massive stroke comatose ex- Israeli prime minister Ariel Shar on has surprised his doctors by displaying "a certain degree of consciousness," an expert who examined him using an MRI scan said on Sunday. The results of tests conducted by a joint Israeli-American team did not mean the former general and right-wing politician turned peacemaker was about to wake up from the coma he has been in since a January 2006 stroke. … 
(Reuters) – General Motors Co will add a third production shift at a complex in Brazil, a move it expects will create 2,630 factory and supplier jobs, the company said Sunday in a statement on its website. GM will add the shift at the Gravataà Industrial Complex, in the south of Brazil, where it makes the Chevrolet Celta and Onix, according to the company. The move, reported earlier on Sunday by Bloomberg, will create 1,450 new jobs at the plant and another 1,000 at suppliers located at the same facility. The company will create another 180 jobs at a new powertrain plaint. … 
U.S. scientists successfully drilled into Lake Whillans, a subglacial expanse of water hidden deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, they reported on Sunday (Jan. 27). 
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. 
Here are photos showing the aftermath of a fatal nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil. The club was hosting a party for university students, which turned fatal as hundreds of partygoers stampeded toward the exit. Firefighters and police say more than 200 are dead, and at least 200 are injured. 
PARIS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched through Paris on Sunday to support the French government's plan to legalize gay marriage and adoption, but the turnout fell well short of a mass demonstration against the project two weeks ago. Police estimated total attendance at about 125,000, while organizers put the number at 400,000. Two weeks ago, organizers of the anti-gay marriage protest claimed turnout of one million, while police put the number at 340,000, an unusually high turnout even in protest-prone France. … 
URIBANA, Venezuela (Reuters) – A prison riot in southwestern Venezuela killed 61 people, a hospital official said on Sunday, although the government has refused to give an official death toll in the bloody standoff that highlighted chaos in the country's jails. The violence took place on Friday at the Uribana jail near the city of Barquisimeto. Relatives who gathered outside the jail fumed at the lack of information from authorities who have started transferring prisoners to other facilities but have not confirmed how many were killed. … 
PARIS (Reuters) – European aerospace group EADS on Sunday published a list of three names it had proposed to the French government to defend France's defense interes ts in a restructuring of Europe's largest aerospace company. The list includes former Areva chief executive Anne Lauvergeon and former European Central Banker President Jean-Claude Trichet, who could also sit on the EADS board, as well as former French army chief of staff General Bernard Thorette. … 
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria's chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah or al-Qaida inspired groups, officials said Sunday, 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Heat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, a surprising study theorizes. 
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- No shirt ripping or bare-chested flexing this time. 
BERLIN (Reuters) – Britain is right to demand greater openness in the European Union but cannot expect to be accorded special rights that might unravel the bloc, senior member s of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition were quoted on Sunday as saying. British Prime Minister David Cameron triggered dismay in many European capitals last week with his call for radical reform of the EU and his promise of an "in-out" referendum on Britain's membership by the end of 2017, provided he wins a second term. … 
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina said on Sunday it had agr eed with Iran to establish a "truth commission" in a bid to resolve the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that Argentine courts accuse the Iran of sponsoring. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez agreed to open talks with Tehran on the attack last year in a sharp change in diplomatic policy that irked Israel and drew criticism from Jewish leaders in Buenos Aires and the United States. Fernandez said foreign ministers from Argentina and Iran had signed a memorandum of understanding during a meeting in Ethiopia. … 
Here are photos showing partygoers desperately trying to help friends injured in a deadly nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil. The party for university students turned fatal as the fire prompted a stampede for the exit. Firefighters and police say more than 200 are dead, and at least 200 are injured. 
ROME (AP) -- Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi praised Benito Mussolini for "having done good" despite the Fascist dictator's anti-Jewish laws, immediately sparking expressions of outrage as Europe on Sunday held Holocaust remembrances. 
ROME (Reuters) – Former prime minister Silvio Be rlusconi triggered outrage from Italy's political left on Sunday with comments defending fascist wartime leader Benito Mussolini at a ceremony commemorating victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Speaking at the margins of the event in Milan, Berlusconi said Mussolini had been wrong to follow Nazi Germany's lead in passing anti-Jewish laws but that he had in other respects been a good leader. … 
LONDON (Reuters) – Nick Clegg, leader of the junior party in Britain's ruling coalition, denounced Davi d Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on quitting the European Union, as polls on Sunday indicated the prime minister's move may gain him votes. "It is not in the national interest when we have this fragile recovery," said Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats strongly favor closer EU ties, in contrast to many members of Cameron's Conservative party. "I don't think it helps at all. … 
LONDON (Reuters) – Nick Clegg, leader of the junior party in the ruling coa lition, denounced David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on quitting the European Union, as polls on Sunday indicated the prime minister's move may gain him votes. "It is not in the national interest when we have this fragile recovery," said Clegg, whose Lib Dems strongly favour closer EU ties, in contrast to many members of Cameron's Conservative party. "I don't think it helps at all. … 
DHAKA (Reuters) – International labor rights groups called on Sunday for global clothing retailers to ensure adequate safety measure s for garment workers in Bangladesh after a blaze killed seven employees at a small factory. Saturday's fire gutted Smart Exports Garment Ltd, just two months after Bangladesh's worst ever factory blaze killed 112 workers and injured 150 at Tazreen Fashions Ltd, a multi-storey garment workshop in Dhaka's Ashulia suburb. In a joint statement issued after the latest blaze, three organizations asked retailers and brands to sign a fire safety agreement with … 
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others are marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again. 
A fire that swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday appears to be the deadliest in a decade. Here is a look at some other recent big nightclub fires: 
PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) -- Tens of thousands of mourners poured into the streets of the restive Egyptian city of Port Said on Sunday for a mass funeral for most of the 37 people killed in rioting a day earlier, chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. 
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena is seeking a financial investor to help revive the ailing lender and will remove a current cap on voting rights to help raise 1 bil lion euros ($1.3 billion), its chairman said. "I would like to have a long-term financial investor," Alessandro Profumo told Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore in an interview published on Sunday. "Nationality is not a problem. The important thing is that it believes in our project". Late on Saturday the Bank of Italy gave its approval to Monte Paschi's request for 3.9 billion euros ($5. … 
PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) -- Thousands of people who have turned out for a mass funeral for 35 people killed in rioting in the coastal city of Port Said are chanting against Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. 
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is set to boost the number of military personnel, Defence M inister Itsunori Onodera said on Sunday, as the new government led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) tackles a territorial spat with China over East China Sea islets. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led the LDP to a landslide election victory last month, promising to beef up the military and stand tough in the dispute over tiny, uninhabited islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. … 
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – It was just one seat in parliament but the loss of a by-election this weekend will force Singapore's long-ruling People's Act ion Party (PAP) to take a hard look at how it balances investor and voter needs in one of the world's biggest financial centers. With anger rising in the wealthy Asian city-state over soaring living costs, reliance on foreign workers and a widening income gap, the opposition Workers' Party took the PAP-held seat in the Punggol East ward by a convincing margin of nearly 11 percent in Saturday's poll. … 
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Andy Murray seized the early advantage in the Australian Open final by taking the first set against Serbia's Novak Djokovic 7-6 on Sunday as he seeks to become the first British man to win the title since 1934. The opening four games went relatively quickly and despite landing just one of his six first serves, Murray still won both of his service games to love. … 
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Any sign of Syria's grip on its suspected chemical weapons slipping as it battles an armed uprising could trigger Israeli military strikes, Israel's vice premier said on Sunday. Silvan Shalom confirmed a me dia report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had last week convened security chiefs to discuss the civil war in nearby Syria and the state of the country's chemical arsenal. … 
LONDON (AP) -- Prince Harry's off-duty time in Afghanistan appeared to be full of war movies, board games and elaborate candy trades. 
SEVARE, Mali (AP) -- A Malian military spokesman says French and Malian troops are patrolling the critically important city of Gao in northern Mali. 
SOFIA (Reuters) 211; Bulgarians are expected to vote in favor of building a new nuclear power plant in their first referendum in the post-communist era on Sunday, challenging the government's decision to abandon the multi-billion-dollar project. The plebiscite will be seen as a test of public support for the policies of rightist Prime Minister Boiko Borisov ahead of July elections, even though voting rules mean the result of the nuclear referendum is unlikely to be binding. …