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*Boeing sold 220 jets or 209 after cancellations. *Airbus delivers 144 aircraft, Boeing 137 in Q1. PARIS/ NEW YORK, April 4- Airbus recaptured the aircraft industry's top spot in the first quarter as U.S. rival Boeing fell behind on orders and grappled with the grounding of its newest jet, the 787 Dreamliner, data from both companies showed on Thursday.
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HOUSTON-- Energy company Harvest Natural Resources Inc. says it will need to restate some financial results published between 2010 and 2012..
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LONDON, April 4- Rio Tinto has hired investment bank Macquarie to sell its majority stake in the Northparkes copper mine in Australia, a source familiar with the matter said, adding to a growing list of planned divestments.
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WASHINGTON, April 4- The president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank on Thursday defended his agency in face of attacks by conservative Republicans who want to close it and a new complaint by Delta Air Lines Inc that the bank's support for Boeing gives foreign airlines an unfair advantage.
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LONDON, April 4- Copper inched up on Thursday but was still hovering around its lowest level in eight months on concerns about high inventories and weak global demand, especially in top metals consumer China. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange was trading at $7,405 by 1502 GMT, slightly up from Wednesday's close at $7,386.50.
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SAO PAULO, April 4- She's one of the world's most popular presidents with an approval rating that is the envy of her peers in richer countries struggling with debt crises and political deadlock- 79 percent and rising. And yet, it's entirely possible that Dilma Rousseff could fail to win re-election as president of Brazil in October 2014.
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SAO PAULO, April 4- Automobile production in Brazil rose slightly in March but sales continued to lag compared with a year earlier, underscoring a fragile market that prompted the government to extend tax breaks on car and truck sales through the end of the year.
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*Sugar aided by potential for rising inflation in Far East. Cocoa prices were lower, weakened partly by origin selling while arabica coffee futures also fell. May raw sugar futures rose 0.13 cent or 0.7 percent to 17.63 cents a lb by 1403 GMT.
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NEW YORK, April 4- The U.S. national weather forecaster reiterated on Thursday its forecast that the much-feared El Niño phenomenon is unlikely to affect the Northern Hemisphere weather into the summer months.
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*Brazil, Thai mills operating at near production cost. *Brazil cane area up, Russian beet acreage seen down. LONDON, April 4- Top sugar exporters Brazil and Thailand are raising production to cut costs in an effective price war, aggravating an already heavily oversupplied global market as values slide to the lowest levels in over 2-1/ 2 years.
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SAO PAULO, April 4- Automobile production in Brazil rose 39.2 percent and sales climbed 20.8 percent in March from February, the national automakers' association said on Thursday. Production in the month rose 3.4 percent from March 2012, according to data released by industry group Anfavea.
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MEXICO CITY-- Mexico's National Council to Prevent Discrimination says it will launch an investigation of an online magazine column accusing maids of being "ungrateful, whining, abusive thieves." Such discriminatory language is against the law in Mexico, but freedom of expression also enjoys broad protection.
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LONDON, April 4- Former chief executive Frank Chapman and other top bosses at BG Group will get no performance bonus for 2012 because of the weakened position of the company, even though they met the criteria for one to be considered.
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*Sugar aided by potential for rising inflation in Far East. NEW YORK/ LONDON, April 4- Raw sugar futures on ICE turned higher on Thursday as hopes that monetary stimulus in Japan will spur more buying lifted prices that had dropped to nearly three-year lows on the expectation that more Indian supplies will reach the global market.
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LONDON, April 4- Copper bounced from an 8- month low on Thursday as the euro recovered against the dollar but doubts remained over the prospects for industrial metals as physical demand remains weak and inventories are at multi-year highs.
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WASHINGTON, April 4- The president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank on Thursday defended his agency from conservative Republicans who want to close it down, as well as against a new complaint by Delta Air Lines Inc that the bank's support for Boeing gives foreign airlines an unfair advantage.
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OLMOS, Peru, April 4- Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3- Workers ended a two-day strike at the OSX Brasil SA shipyard at Brazil's Port of Acu on Wednesday, after delaying construction and blockading an industrial complex owned by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista. The workers said Acciona failed to pay wages and provided substandard conditions.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 3- A U.S. judge has rejected efforts by Chevron Corp to secure documents from a California environmental advocacy group in a fraud case related to a $19 billion award for rainforest pollution in Ecuador.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3- Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday put off for a week the judgment of a landmark case that will decide how the foreign profits of mining giant Vale SA and other multinationals are treated by tax authorities.