Barack/Nixon The eerie similarities between two of our biggest sports fans in chief Obama and Nixon are soul mates in their need to tell voters, "I am a sports fan!" If you understand why Nixon had to talk about sports, you begin to understand why Obama does, too.

Afghans 'not ready' as US starts pull-out British soldiers are on full alert as a bloody Taliban backlash is predicted, Jonathan Owen reports. Nato powers meet in Chicago to review policyEstimates using Nato data suggest it will take more than four years before Afghan National Security Forces will be able to fight unaided.

RFK Jr. rejects blame during eulogy at wife Mary Richardson Kennedy’s funeral Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shamelessly told a crowd of mourners at tragic wife Mary Richardson Kennedy’s funeral yesterday that her suicide was not his fault.

China 'collecting Dalai Lama blood samples' Chinese agencies are secretly collecting samples of the Dalai Lama’s blood, urine and hair and are stepping up efforts to harm him, the Tibetan government in exile said on Sunday.

Is Elizabeth Warren Native American or Not?Either way, there's little evidence she benefitted professionally.

What China Can Teach Facebook As Facebook launches its IPO, it's worth taking a moment to consider what the Chinese market can teach the global social-networking leader.

On the trail of Steve Jobs He was the ultimate tastemaker, but Steve Jobs lived in surprising suburban ordinariness. The second most remarkable thing about Steve, though, was that for someone who changed the world so fundamentally – it's because of him that we all have computers – he seemed to have been brought up, worked and died within a small radius of his childhood home near Palo Alto, California. Somehow I always imagined Steve – barefoot Buddhist, design guru, tastemaker – not as a hometown boy, but someone more metropolitan or bohemian, or who would seek out a remote "spiritual" place to live.

Investors seeking a British FacebookLondon has become the scene of a big-money race to find an internet firm with potential to be as profitable as the US social networking site

Mark Zuckerberg's status: marriedSurprise update as Facebook founder weds university sweetheart Priscilla Chan after social network's share market listingThe couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif. home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Ms. Chan's graduation from medical school.

How to end partisan gridlock Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein / WashPostFour solutions that might make a difference."Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it’s down to blood relatives and paid staff)."