International Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

BEIJING , The man in line to oversee China's massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors.

TORONTO , Adam Oates was devastated. Growing up in Toronto just wanting to play hockey, his chances of being drafted into the NHL came and went. "I didn't get drafted. You're a Canadian kid, that's all that matters," Oates said. "You go to high school, 'Did you get drafted yesterday?' 'No.' That's devastating for a kid in Canada, in Toronto. My parents [said], 'Hey, keep playing.

Divided government still rules in the nation's capital after last week's Tuesday's vote, but unity is increasingly the name of the game in cities such as Annapolis, Topeka, Concord and Little Rock. In a little-noticed footnote to last week's election, state legislature elections this year have produced the highest number of states with one-party rule in 60 years.

LONDON (AP) , George Entwistle, the director general of the BBC, resigned on Saturday night over a TV program the network had aired that wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex-abuse scandal. In a brief statement outside BBC headquarters, Entwistle said he decided to do the "honorable thing" and step down after just eight weeks in the job.

After sending signals this week that compromise was possible, both Barack Obama and John Boehner on Saturday reiterated their opposing positions on Saturday, with the president insisting on higher taxes on the wealthy and the Republican House speaker calling for tax code reform and overall lower tax rates.

VATICAN CITY (AP) , The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in Maine, two other states and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.

In the weeks since the Washington Nationals' season ended unceremoniously, Davey Johnson hasn't spent too much time reliving how it all unraveled. There was too much for him to do around his Florida home. Too many things to fix. A fishing tournament to win. A charity golf tournament to help plan.

One day after President Obama accepted the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, Republicans say the general is still expected to answer congressional questions about the Obama administration's handling of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in Libya that claimed the lives of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) , A shootout between rioting prisoners and security forces at a prison in Sri Lanka's capital killed at least 27 inmates, while police said Saturday that they arrested five prisoners who had managed to escape and were searching for others.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) , A Turkish military helicopter carrying soldiers on a mission against Kurdish rebels crashed because of bad weather on Saturday, killing all 17 troops onboard, officials said. Thirteen...

BEIRUT (AP) , Twin suicide bombings shook a southern Syrian city on Saturday, killing at least 20 regime troops, an activist group said. The early morning blasts in Daraa targeted an encampment for government forces in the city, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) , The men's basketball game between No. 10 Florida and Georgetown on the deck of a ship was called off at halftime Friday night because the court became too wet. Florida led 27-23 at the break in the Navy-Marine Corps Classic when the matchup aboard the USS Bataan was stopped by the court condensation. The game will not count and will not be made up.

The election has strengthened President Obama's hand on immigration, and Dream Act organizers said it likely means a flood of hundreds of thousands of new applications for his nondeportation policy , but it's not clear that anything has changed in the decade-long stalemate in Congress on the issue.

Perennially outgunned Maryland Republicans hoped the strategy of using the Internet to petition laws to the ballot might help make the minority party relevant in state politics again. But on Tuesday,...

Maryland casinos could soon start 24-hour operations and table games could pop up by January, which analysts say could bring the state millions of dollars in revenue long before a sixth casino opens. Maryland voters gave final approval Tuesday to a statewide gambling expansion, which was crafted this summer and was the focal point of the most expensive campaign in state history.