Upbeat earnings from Wm Morrison drove strength in supermarkets, buoying investor confidence and helping Britain's top share index rise for a seventh straight day, with miners also adding to gains. By 1019 GMT the FTSE 100 was up 30.20 points or 0.7 percent, at 4,473.82 after it ended 54.87 points, or 1.3 percent higher on

Dubai's Al Nassma, the world's first brand of chocolate made with camels' milk, is in talks to expand into new Arab markets, Europe, Japan and the United States, its general manager said on Tuesday. Martin Van Almsick said the United Arab Emirates company planned to enter Saudi Arabia first, followed by Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and

Yahoo Inc said it plans to introduce a major overhaul of its Internet home page on Tuesday, as the company strives to make itself more relevant to Web surfers and create new ways to sell advertising. The new homepage blends Yahoo's collection of online content and products with popular social networking services like Facebook and

The dollar edged higher on Tuesday in a slight recovery from sharp falls the previous session as caution set in ahead of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's congressional testimony. Bernanke will start his twice-yearly testimony on the economic outlook and monetary policy before the House Financial Services Committee at 1400 GMT. The Fed chief gave

World stocks approached a 9-month high on Tuesday while emerging stocks hit a 2009 peak as investors anticipated upward surprises from earnings results due later given a run of strong reports over the past week. On Wall Street on Monday, the S&P 500 index hit an eight-month closing high after troubled lender CIT reached a

Japan's Nikkei average climbed 2.7 percent to its highest close in two weeks as optimism grew about a recovery in the U.S. economy, reviving investor appetite for riskier assets and lifting blue-chip exporters such as Canon Inc. Mitsubishi Corp and other trading houses advanced on rising metals prices and firm oil. The Nikkei started the

U.S. small businesses say they feel slighted by the Obama administration and efforts to shore up the economy, with large companies taking much of the government's attention and stimulus cash. The government decision last week against bailing out small business lender CIT Group raised fears of thousands of companies left without funding for day-to-day operations,

At Microsoft's research centre in a leafy lane in India's tech capital, a new generation of researchers are being groomed half a world away from the software giant's sprawling headquarters in Seattle. Complete with beanbags and coffee served in steel tumblers, the centre is helping change the perception that India is no place for top-end