KUALA LUMPUR: Etihad Airways, like many other global airlines, may be hard-pressed to maintain profitability in the next two years if fuel prices continue to stay at current high levels.

WASHINGTON - Aug 12/08 - SNS -- The world cotton 2008-09 forecasts show lower supplies, use, and ending stocks relative to last month, according to the latest forecasts from the USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board.

Emirates Airlines took delivery Monday of the first of 58 Airbus A380 superjumbo planes it has ordered and said it has signed up to buy another 60 aircraft from the European plane builder.

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Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- BG Group Plc , the U.K.'s third- biggest oil and gas company, conceded defeat in its hostile bid for Origin Energy Ltd. after the Australian company attracted an investment of as much as $8 billion from ConocoPhillips.