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Right now, those vehicles always have a steering wheel, brakes and a driver ready to take over in case of a problem, but prototype cars without steering wheels are also being developed. A network of cameras, radars and lasers feeds information to the car's computers, helping to fill in the gaps in the GPS system, which knows how to get the car from point to point. Later this summer, the federal government is expected to release guidelines for the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. Intel CEO... Читать дальше...

British MPs have called for the decriminalisation of prostitution, and for sex workers’ convictions to be erased to improve their employability.

The taxman took to the busy streets of Pretoria’s central business district on Friday to mark the opening of the tax season.

Officials are warning of possible smoke and ozone pollution in the air ahead of Las Vegas' many fireworks shows set to light up ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the most significant official gestures of mourning and respect, an Associated Press analysis found.

The U.S. State Department said on Friday (July 1) that it was too early to say who was involved in a hostage situation at a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka or what the motivation might be, but it confirmed that all Americans working at the U.S. mission there had been accounted for. "We have accounted for all Americans working for the chief of mission authority" in Dhaka, State Department spokesman John Kirby told a press briefing. He said the situation was "very fluid, very live."

Both Ola and Uber are hitting at each other on nationalism.

Record numbers of Americans are expected to be traveling over the long holiday weekend. Both gasoline prices and air fares are down from 2015, making holiday trips more affordable for millions.

"Serial" podcast star Adnan Syed may have won a major legal victory, but the family of Hae Min Lee still believes he belongs behind bars.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A strike against Atlantic City's most vulnerable casino on the biggest moneymaking weekend of the year raised fresh questions about the future of the Trump Taj Mahal.

First-year West Point Academy cadet Tom Surdyke, 19, was on vacation Friday in Southampton, N.Y., with another cadet when he attempted to save a person from drowning.

The US authorities have informed Russia of imposing sanctions on a number of the country’s entities over breaching the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, a US Department of State spokesperson told Sputnik on Friday.

Dan Goure

U.S. Army, United States

Unfortunately, the Army has shown itself to be all too lethal when it comes to starting and then killing major acquisition programs.  

The U.S. Army is one of the most lethal fighting forces in the modern world. In 1991, it demolished the Iraqi Army in 100 hours. In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. Army marched to Baghdad in 18 days. The ratio of enemy combat vehicles destroyed to losses suffered by U.S. and coalition forces in both Iraqi wars was stunningly lopsided. Читать дальше...

Ben Hooper
SOUTH SHIELDS, England, July 1 (UPI) -- A customer at a British store captured video of a sneaky sea gull walking across the floor, grabbing a bag of chips in its beak and strutting out of the shop.

OMAHA, Neb. — Katie Ledecky set herself up to swim a third individual event in Rio, qualifying fastest for the 800-meter freestyle at the U.S. trials Friday. The Maryland teenager’s time of 8 minutes, 10.91 seconds in the preliminaries was third fastest in the world this year. She owns the 10 leading times in the

Now is a "key moment" for the EU's regulations, according to a former Commerce Secretary.

– Federal Government of Nigeria says it has saved the country of a whooping sum of $800million from the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Railway Project – FG renegotiated the contract with CCECC today, July 1 for an agreed contract sum of $11.117 billion from the  $11.917 agreed with past government The Federal Government of […]

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Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon executive produced a unique interactive web series for go90 called "The Runner," which plans to award at least $1 million in prizes over the next 30 days.

On the series, one person is chosen to be the runner. He or she has to arrive at six checkpoints across the US in order to collect as much as $500,000.

There are also five chase teams on his tail. So if the runner gets caught, he goes home with zip.

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Vertrekkend directeur van het Rijksmuseum Wim Pijbes heeft vrijdagavond de Zilveren Medaille van de gemeente Amsterdam ontvangen. Burgemeester Eberhard van der Laan reikte hem de onderscheiding uit.

Ikea recall, Goldman in BHS spotlight, Europe banks fail US stress tests

Puerto Rico on Friday said it will default on $779 million worth of constitutionally backed debt, its most senior bonds, making good on threats that the island would choose paying essential services for its citizens over obligations to creditors. Debt payments totaling just over $2 billion were due on Friday. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla told reporters on Friday that overall the U.S. commonwealth territory will not pay $911 million worth of its obligations.

There's a new arms race being waged in the sneaker industry: 3-D printing.