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Driverless taxi debuts in Tokyo with car full of passengers
A self-driving taxi has successfully taken passengers through Tokyo in the first public test for autonomous vehicles.
Toyota to invest $500m in Uber driverless car deal
Japanese carmaker Toyota has announced it will invest $500. 0m in Uber and expand a partnership focused on developing self-driving vehicles.
Donald Trump accuses Google of rigging search results to show just 'fake news'
US President Donald Trump has accused Google of "rigging" the search results obtained through its search engine in order to make him look bad and only show "fake news".
US trade deficit unexpectedly widens in July
America's trade deficit in goods with the rest of the world widened last month, partly as the boost to exports from Chinese buyers trying to front-run their government's tariffs on US soybeans lapsed.
Russia gears up for biggest military excercises in four decades
Russia will hold its biggest war games in nearly four decades next month as part of a massive military exercise that will also involve Chinese and Mongolian troops.
Theresa May says no-deal Brexit 'not the end of the world'
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that a no-deal Brexit "wouldn’t be the end of the world", in what some observers said was an attempt to downplay the warning issued by Chancellor Philip Hammond during the previous week.