Here come the driverless taxis
San Francisco finally permits a 24/7 service despite local resistance. Can autonomous carmakers now win over the world?
Driverless vehicles
Premier League to set out protocol forcing ‘bad’ owners to sell
English top flight discusses divestment process if individuals are barred as directors
Travel & leisure industry
Private equity lawyers are taught to eat what they kill
Law firms are fracturing partnerships by raiding each other for talent in London and New York
Mergers & Acquisitions
Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘People should not feel they are on the brink of extinction’
The writer on her five-decade-spanning trilogy, speaking out against her country’s authoritarian rulers — and why she will not rein in her critiques ahead of next week’s elections
Lunch with the FT
Moscow moves ahead with digital currency
Plus, updates on Binance and Coinbase
Central banks
A laboratory of solar energy gives Lyon its moment in the sun
A boom in residential panel installations is fuelling large-scale projects in French cities
Renewable energy
Belgium’s drug trafficking ‘even bigger’ problem than terrorism
Justice minister calls for EU extradition agreements to help catch kingpins
Terrorism
China unveils capital market reforms to boost investor confidence
Lower fees and longer trading hours part of plan to boost activity as policymakers’ concern over economy mounts
Financial & markets regulation
Tourism at inflationary hotspots tests ECB
Europe’s tourism boom is creating a headache for the region’s rate-setters
Travel & leisure industry
British retail sales fall more than forecast as wet weather curbs spending
Volume of goods bought drops 1.2% between June and July after expanding in previous three months
UK retail sales