AP - The Ol' Ball Coach never experienced anything like this at Florida Field. Not as a player. Not as a coach. Not even as an opponent. Percy Harvin ran for a career-high 167 yards and two touchdowns, Tim Tebow accounted for three scores and No. 3 Florida thrashed 24th-ranked South Carolina 56-6 Saturday, handing Steve Spurrier his worst loss in 90 games at The Swamp.

AP - Southern Californians weathered a second straight day of devastation Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires destroyed 500 mobile homes, forced thousands of people to flee and shut down major freeways.

Reuters - Fires whipped up by hot hurricane-force winds darkened Los Angeles skies on Saturday, charring thousands of acres and hundreds of homes in the second-largest U.S. city and threatening its power supply.

AP - Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colors marched, chanted and danced in cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the vote that banned gay marriage in California and to urge supporters not to quit the fight for the right to wed.

AFP - World leaders agreed an action plan Saturday to boost flagging global growth and prevent future financial upheaval at a summit here, promising spending plans, a trade deal and reforms.

AP - Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts unfurled a 100-foot, laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage Saturday while drawing ever closer to their destination, the international space station.

AP - Presidents typically say they want to be surrounded by strong-willed people who have the courage to disagree with them. President-elect Barack Obama, reaching out to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republicans, actually might mean it.

Reuters - Russia is ready to discuss existing missile defense programs with the United States, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday, signaling an easing in Russia's outright opposition to U.S. plans.

Reuters - Astronauts orbiting the Earth aboard the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour unfolded a robotic arm on Saturday to inspect the ship's heat shielding as they sped toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station.

AP - Iraq's Cabinet will vote Sunday on a security pact with Washington that would keep U.S. forces in the country for another three years, a major step in efforts to balance Iraqi demands for national sovereignty with the security concerns of the two allies.

Reuters - Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday his efforts to end fighting in Congo were going fairly well and that President Joseph Kabila had not given conditions for talks with the rebels.

AP - The mayor of Los Angeles says about 500 mobile homes were destroyed in a wildfire plaguing the city.

AP - World leaders battling a historic economic crisis agreed Saturday to flag risky investing and regulatory weak spots in hopes of avoiding future financial meltdowns.

AP - U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole.