GLENDALE, Ariz. – Nail Yakupov scored a power-play goal at 3:52 of overtime and the Edmonton Oilers fought back after giving up a goal late in regulation to beat the Phoenix Coyotes 2-1 Wednesday night.
Adios Jose: Raptors trade Calderon in 3-team deal for Rudy Gay, Hamed Haddadi
TORONTO – Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo had to part ways with the team’s longest-serving player to land an elite talent like Rudy Gay.
Exclusive: Citigroup may exit consumer banking in more countries
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc is looking to pull out of consumer banking in more countries in an effort to lower costs and boost profits, according to two people familiar with the matter. In December, Citigroup said it was withdrawing from consumer ba nking in five countries – Pakistan, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey and Uruguay – as part of an expense reduction plan that will save $1.1 billion a year and eliminate 11,000 jobs. The cuts were one of Michael Corbat's first major steps as chief executive, a position he took in October. … 
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez , received a passport on Wednesday under the island's new, freer travel law and said she would go abroad soon, after years of being denied that right. Sanchez' case was viewed as a test of the Cuban government's commitment to free travel, but the news was not as good for Angel Moya, another dissident who, Sanchez said, was denied a passport. "Incredible! They called to my house to tell me that my passport was ready. They just delivered it to me," Sanchez wrote on Twitter. … 
LONDON (Reuters) – Business minister Vince Cable said on Wednesday he could see some merit in incorporating growth into the Bank of England's objectives, adding his voice to an e merging debate over the bank's mandate. "I think the argument for having growth as part of the objectives seems eminently sensible and I think it is important we have a debate on how best that should be done," Cable said in remarks at a think tank event in London. … 
(Reuters) – Aubrey McClendon will no longer be running Chesapeake Energy Corp come April 1. But he is likely to remain deeply entangled with the company he founded 24 years ago. America's second-largest natural-gas producer said on Tuesday that McClendon is stepping down as chief executive and a board member. He is leaving behind legal predicaments and intertwined personal and corporate interests that analysts say could linger for years. Among the trickiest to unwind is his signature perk. McClendon controls interests of up to 2. … 
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc doubled its mobile advertising revenue in the fourth quarter, a sign that the No.1 social network is seeing early success in expanding onto handheld devices as more of its users migrate to smartphones and tablets. Investors want to see evidence that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 8-year-old company is delivering on promises to develop a full-fledged mobile advertising business, a challenge facing many of today's technology leaders including Google Inc. But the growth trailed some of Wall Street's most aggressive estimates. … 
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Time Warner Inc is considering selling its New York headquarters and has asked real estate b rokers to evaluate the building's value, in a move that could see it relinquish one of the last vestiges of its disastrous merger with America Online, two sources said. One source said on Wednesday that the company could still hang on to its portion of the Time Warner Center, a complex that Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes once called an "indulgence." The industry sources did not want to be named because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. … 
BEIRUT (AP) -- Israel's air force la unched a rare airstrike on a military site inside Syria, the Syrian government and U.S. and regional security officials said Wednesday, adding a potentially flammable new element to regional tensions already heightened by Syria's civil war. 
HAVANA (AP) -- Two Cuban dissidents who applied for passports to go overseas under recently enacted travel reform reported mixed results Wednesday, as one former prisoner was turned down while a prominent blogger excitedl y tweeted a photo of her brand new, bright blue travel document. 
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain published on Thursday a 159-billion-pound long-term defence equipm ent spending plan, a move aimed at reversing decades of mismanagement but which drew only qualified praise from experts. The plan covers spending from 2012 to 2022, the first time the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has outlined defence equipment spending over such a long period, reflecting the gestation time of major military projects. … 
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO's military power and global influence could be put at risk if allies continue to slash their defense budgets while em erging powers boost theirs, NATO's chief will warn on Thursday. Anders Fogh Rasmussen is also expected to warn in his annual report, due out later on Thursday, that too deep defense cuts could worsen the West's economic crisis by weakening defense industries that are key drivers of innovation, jobs and exports. … 
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As US Airways Group Inc and American Airlines parent AMR Corp hammer out the final details of a merger, one of the most thorny issues has been whether AMR Chief Executive Tom Horton stays or goes. After rebuffing an aggressive takeover push from smaller rival US Airways early in its bankruptcy, AMR of late has embraced a deal, but is now eyeing a high-level position for Horton in the merged airline, according to several people familiar with the matter. … 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chuck Hagel says his experience fighting in Vietnam alongside his younger brother will shape any decision he makes to unleash military force if the Senate confirms him to be Presid ent Barack Obama's defense secretary. 
SEVARE, Mali (AP) -- French forces met no resistance Wednesday in Kidal, the Islamists' last major town, as the two-week-old mission scored another success in its effort to dislodge the al-Qaida-linked militants from northern Mali. 
MILAN (Reuters) – Fiat SpA Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said the Italian automaker would like to see the minority holder of U.S. affiliate Chrysler Group LLC sell out as soon as possible. "The faster we do it, the better it is. It's up to them," he said, referring to a United Auto Workers union retiree healthcare trust called VEBA that owns 41 percent of Chrysler. Earlier this month, VEBA asked Chrysler to register 16.6 percent of its Chrysler shares for a future public offering, setting the stage for the third-largest U.S. … 
BERLIN (AP) -- Egypt's Islamist president turned aside repeated criticism of his past comments referring to Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs" as he visited Germany on Wednesday, insisting that the remarks were taken out of context and were aimed at criticizing Israeli attacks on Palestinians. 
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – For a gruff, no-nonsense technocrat known for intimidating even her closest aides, the tears rolling down President Dilma Rousseff's face were especially striking. After receiving a phone call at 7 a.m. on Sunday notifying her of a nightclub fire that killed 235 people in southern Brazil, Rousseff cut short a visit to Chile and was on the scene by midday. One photo showed her in a Santa Maria gym that had been turned into a makeshift morgue, cradling the head of a victim's mother with both hands as the two women cried. … 
SIENA, Italy (Reuters) – The secret document at the heart of the Monte dei Paschi banking scandal lay for months in a concealed safe in a 14th century Tuscan palace. Chief Executive Fabrizio Viola said he learnt about the safe's contents only last October, a full 10 months after he had been called in to sort out Italy's third biggest bank. The 2009 document revealing derivatives deals that have run up huge losses for Banca Monte dei Paschi came to light in the office of Viola's predecessor at the bank's headquarters in Siena. … 
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian punk rockers Pussy Riot on Wednesday lost an appeal against an Internet ban on their music videos, including one showing a protest song for which three band members were jailed. A Moscow City Court upheld a lower court's November decision deeming the videos "extremist". Wednesday's ruling that meant that four Pussy Riot videos were banned from the web. The videos were still available on sites hosted outside Russia, including the Google-owned YouTube. The court rejected an appeal by one band member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, who said the ban violated freedom of speech. … 
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's two largest political parties endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister Wednesd ay, all but guaranteeing him a third term at the beginning of the post-election process of forming a new government. 
WETASKIWIN, Alta. – The parents of a five-year-old boy who was shot dead as he slept in his bed on an Alberta reserve don't want to be part of a sentencing conference for one of three teens who fired the gun. 
LONDON (Reuters) – Four million Londoners cram onto the city's Underground passenger railway nearly every day, but it is a rarer event for Prince Charle s. He rode the British capital's bustling commuter network on Wednesday for the first time since 1986. The heir to the British throne and his wife Camilla took a one-stop journey from Farringdon to King's Cross on the Metropolitan Line as part of celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of a transport service affectionately known to Britons as the "Tube". … 
Scientists have the first hints of life from a lake long trapped beneath tons of Antarctic ice. 
LONDON (AP) -- Royalty means rarely having to mind the gap. 
SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) -- The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to "the whole country," as well as to architects and inspectors charged with making sure the building was safe, his lawyer said Wednesday. 
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- French-led forces have wrested control of three key cities in northern Mali from al-Qaida-linked militants, but the fighters have escaped with their weapons into a desert region the size of Texas and are poised to mount counterattacks. 
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The slump in Apple Inc's s hare price from its September high has badly dented the returns of hundreds of mutual funds that had maintained outsized holdings of the stock. But some went sour on the iPhone-maker just in time. Of the 321 funds that had more than 5 percent of their assets in Apple shares at the beginning of 2012, 53 of them – or slightly more than 16 percent – significantly cut back their weighting of the company before the plunge gained momentum, according to data from Morningstar. … 
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A South African university says a limited number of manuscripts in the fabled city of Timbuktu in Mali were damaged or stolen by Islamist extremists as they fled the city. 
ANKARA (Reuters) – T urkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he will take proposed constitutional reforms, expected to include the creation of an executive presidency, directly to parliament and if necessary to the people if no deal can be reached by April. A cross-party parliamentary commission drafting a new constitution had been expected to finish its work by the start of this year but has failed to reach a consensus. … 
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli President Shimon P eres on Wednesday began talks with political parties over who should form a new government, and appears certain to ask incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to assemble it. The formal consultation procedure to nominate a lawmaker to form a government, the president's only important executive power, began after Peres was presented with the official results from last week's general election. … 
SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) – Prosecutors in southern Brazil, where 235 people died when a fire ravaged the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria last weekend, are investigating whether city leader s and inspectors were negligent in allowing the club to operate. The investigation, which is separate from a criminal probe into the causes of the tragedy, comes after police said the club's sole exit was partially blocked and that fire extinguishers and emergency exit lights weren't working. … 
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek anti-austerity protesters stormed the office of the labor minister on Wednesday and clashed with police after 30 demonstrators were arres ted. The scuffles erupted after police detained members of the Communist-affiliated PAME group who had forced their way into the ministry and occupied Labour Minister Yannis Vroutsis's office for about two hours. … 
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia pulled out of an anti-crime accord with the United States on Wednesday, the latest sign of rising tensions between Moscow and Washington. 
MOSCOW (AP) -- A leading ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet says she wants to stay in Canada after receiving threats -- a move that follows an acid attack on the dance troupe's ballet chief and highlights tensions at the famed theater. 
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd on Wednesday kicked off a string of global launch parties for a long-delayed line of smartphones it says will put it on the comeback trail in a market it once dominated. The new BlackBerry 10 phones will compete with Apple's iPhone and devices using Google's Android technology, both of which have soared above the BlackBerry in a competitive market. They boast fast browsers, new features, smart cameras and, unlike previous BlackBerry models, enter the market primed with a large app library. (Writing by Janet Guttsman; Editing by Frank McGurty) 
CAIRO (Reuters) – With violence sweeping Egypt's cities and the economy lurching deeper into crisis, each passing day is adding new bricks to a wall of mistrust between the Islamist-led government of President Mohamed Mursi and a fractured secular opposition. Two years after the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, the epicenter of the upheavals reshaping the Arab world, is once again gambling with its future. … 
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- The awe-inspiring dunes and wild mountains of Algeria's Sahara have lured adventure travelers for decades, but their latest incarnation -- as a crossroad for the al-Qaida militants who attacked a natural gas complex -- is likely to make them even more inaccessible.