Carl Icahn looks increasingly likely to get his way, even if it’s not on his own terms. The activist investor’s fingerprints appear all over Xerox Holdings Corp.’s $35 billion attempt to acquire HP Inc. But it always looked as if he might prefer the deal to happen the other way around. Indeed, he pitched an acquisition of Xerox to HP ...

The Olympic torch will arrive in Japan on March 20 for a four-month relay to launch the opening ceremonies for the Tokyo summer games. But rather than anticipating the sight of Olympic torchbearers, much of Japan is fixated on a different relay: hundreds of masked passengers grimly walking off the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama. The ship has ...

India has more than a sixth of the world’s population. It’s also still a poor country. So what happens there is incredibly important for the welfare of the human race. For a long time, good things were happening in India. Cautious pro-business reforms in 1980s were followed by the dismantling of much of the country’s overbearing regulatory state in the ...