Nissan Motor Co Ltd said it will be ready to bring fully self-driving vehicles to market by 2020. The Japanese automaker said it plans to offer "multiple, commercially viable" vehicles that are capable of autonomous operation without driver input. The self-driving vehicles will be sold "at realistic prices for consumers," the company said at a
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Governments sought information on over 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of 2013 and the No.1 social network complied with most requests, the firm said in its first report on the scale of data inquiries it gets from countries around the world. The report follows allegations by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that practically
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Western forces could attack Syria within days, the United States and its allies have told rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad, opening up new risks in a war that is spreading hatreds across the Middle East. Participants at a meeting in Istanbul told Reuters that U.S. and other diplomats warned Syrian opposition leaders on Monday to
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As Steve Ballmer bows out of Microsoft Corp, the guessing game over who will replace him has started with a British bookmaker putting Nokia's Stephen Elop as the favourite. Ballmer, 57, unexpectedly announced his retirement last Friday after more than three decades at the world's largest software company, including 13 years as chief executive. With
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Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said that the UK authorities would “inform and consult with” the Cypriot government if they decided to use the British bases on the island to launch strikes against Syria. Speaking to a contributor of the British channel ITV, Kasoulides said that he held a meeting on Monday with the British ambassador
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President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades has said we were put a gun to the head to accept the haircut of deposits in accepting the terms for a bailout to save the Cyprus economy. Testifying before the Commission of Inquiry, which convened in its last session, Anastasiades said that he argued before the Eurogroup meeting
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U.S. President Barack Obama has not made a decision to order military strikes against the Syrian government in response to last week's alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus, a senior administration official said on Tuesday. The assertion by the U.S. official, which echoed the White House's comments on Monday, came amid mounting signs that Washington
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Oil prices rose to a six-month high on Tuesday as Western powers readied a military strike against Syria, and traders and analysts cited concerns over stability in the Middle East. Below are facts about Syria's energy sector and why developments there matter to global oil markets. SYRIA'S OIL AND GAS SECTOR * Syria has not
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Turkish Central Bank Governor Erdem Basci said on Tuesday he did not intend to hike interest rates to defend a sliding lira, which hit record lows on concern about the outlook for U.S. stimulus and the conflict in neighbouring Syria. In an interview with the state-run Anadolu news agency (AA), Basci said the central bank
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President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, referring to his decision to accept the Eurogroup agreement of March 15, told the Commission of Inquiry into how Cyprus’ economy and banking sector nearly collapsed that, faced with the choice of being likeable or useful, he opted to be useful. He said any proposal for a
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