Beijing has scoured the world for mining and logging concessions. Now, Chinese enterprises are snapping up vast tracts of land abroad and forging rubber-farming deals. Officials in poor countries tout the "miracle crops" that'll lift struggling populat

Beijing has already scoured the world for mining and logging concessions to feed its galloping economy and now it's snapping up vast tracts of land to feed its people and industries.

A new state law extends health-care coverage to more young adults. But it also could cost municipalities and businesses, already stretched thin, a lot more money.

One year into Richard Anderson's tenure at the helm of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, the company is on the brink of becoming the world's largest carrier through its purchase of Northwest Airlines. But some of the biggest challenges may be yet to come.

(Adds Marcegaglia, Berlusconi remarks and background.) ROME -(Dow Jones)- Steel magnate Emma Marcegaglia, the new head of Italy's powerful Confindustria business association, Thursday said although the Italian economy was in trouble, she was optimistic t