A Kenya Airways Boeing B777-200ER plane is seen during a media tour at their maintenance hangar in Nairobi

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Kenya Airways says fleet delays curb growth, H1 up

Kenya Airways carried more passengers at improved yields to post higher revenues and pretax profit in its first half but its chief executive said fleet expansion delays were curbing growth.

Special Report: A fame-seeking Philly trader's rap falls flat

Tyrone L. Gilliams Jr., a commodities trader, part-time online preacher and hip hop event promoter, is not one for understatement.

At-home shopping leaps, driving UPS, Fedex demand

Costly fuel and harsh weather are leading more people to shop from home this year -- good news for FedEx (FDX.N) and United Parcel Service (UPS.N) as online sales jumped by double digits in the first quarter.

Google launches Chrome PCs, takes on Microsoft

Samsung and Acer Inc laptop computers using Google's Chrome operating system will go on sale in June, as the world's No. 1 Internet search engine tries to entice people to do more on the Web.

Virgin Airlines is now known Virgin Australia

Virgin and Delta deal ready to take off

Virgin Australia sporting a new name landed the rights to forge a coalition with Delta Air Lines on the Australia-US course but is still boosting efforts to find airline partners particularly in the Asian region.

Dubai

A security guard walks past a shipment of copper in a file photo.

Dubai firm plans $500 mln copper smelter in Tanzania

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Dubai-based City Energy & Infrastructure LLC plans to build a copper smelter and sugar plant in Tanzania over the next three years at a...

Nigeria

Nigeria's FCMB 9-month pre-tax profit up 62 pct

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Nigeria's First City Monument Bank said on Monday its pre-tax profit rose by 62 percent to 9.88 billion naira for the nine months to September, from 6.