How the future president liked to get high.

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Barry Obama: Pot Connoisseur

Results of an opinion poll that could decide the future of the UK’s highly radioactive nuclear waste are to be revealed on Tuesday.

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Poll marks UK nuclear waste path

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres wants talks with the club about his future after suffering the ‘worst moments’ of his career.

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Unhappy Torres considers future

Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan is due to make a statement on a green paper which could set out the future of the assembly’s electoral arrangements.

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Assembly election proposals due

Last week, the once-future Treasury secretary and current JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon revealed a $2 billion loss. This previously undisclosed derivative trade should be a wake-up call for those claiming that finance has been “reined in” and no longer presents a threat to the global economy. Read full article > >

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JPMorgan’s debacle, and its parallels to AIG

Roberto Di Matteo refuses to be drawn on his long-term Chelsea future – even after winning the Champions League.

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Di Matteo quiet on Chelsea future

Charles Green says administrators at Rangers have told Ticketus they are terminating its contract over future ticket sales.

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Ticketus contract ‘terminated’

Jackie Chan confirms he will be steering away from action roles in the future.

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Chan movie is "last action role"

As Facebook floats itself on the stock exchange, technology experts attending the Future Everything conference in Manchester give their views on the company’s worth.

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VIDEO: ‘Is Facebook worth $100 billion?’

When is a photograph not a photograph? At the Torpedo Factory Art Center , the exhibition “Diverging Mediums: Photography vs. iPhoneography” asks whether there’s a difference between pictures shot — and often tweaked — on iPhones and those taken with more traditional cameras. The show’s side-by-side pairings of pictures by fine-art photographers and pictures by members of a group dedicated to iPhone photography raises intriguing questions, but leave the answers open to discussion. Read full article > >

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‘Diverging Mediums — Photography vs. iPhoneography’ ponders the future of photography at the Torpedo Factory Art Center

When I was a kid, the future promised all kinds of whiz-bang technologies. Jet boots. Robot maids, like on “The Jetsons.” And, most exciting for a 12-year-old with a subscription to Gourmet magazine, “smart” refrigerators that performed tricks like alerting you to eat that lettuce in the back of the produce drawer before it spoiled and went to waste. Read full article > >

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Saving food, one sheet of paper at a time

At the end of this year, Nancy Keenan will step down from her post as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the country’s oldest abortion-rights advocacy group. The 60-year-old Keenan said she is leaving out of concern for the future of the pro-choice movement — and thinks she could be holding it back.In recent years, Keenan has worried about an “intensity gap” on abortion rights among millennials, which the group considers to be the generation of Americans born between 1980 and 1991. While most young, antiabortion voters see abortion as a crucial political issue, NARAL’s own internal research does not find similar passion among abortion-rights supporters. If the pro-choice movement is to successfully defend abortion rights, Keenan contends, it needs more young people in leadership roles, including hers. Read full article > >

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Exclusive: NARAL President Nancy Keenan to step down

As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Addressing the mobile problem

As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Addressing the mobile problem

As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Addressing the mobile problem