Simon Hobbs meets Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, the face of fashion, fast cars and now football
CNBC European Business brings you a special guide to the ideas, products and companies that are shaping our immediate future
Democracy reborn?
Empires of their own
Light years ahead
Commercial travel
Online and on-message
Open house
Cities within cities
Sam Harrop picks festive fizz of the highest order
Ian Wisniewski identifies six seasonal spirits
Pedal electric
The new Opec
Airlines' tunnel vision
A new gold
Online and upward
The business of charity
Thin is in
Measure it
Africa rising
Remote control
Seeing triple
With the IMF tentatively calling the bottom of the US residential property market by mid-2009, will real estate start to look good again? Mark Faithfull picks where and in what to put your money
The sky’s the limit
Panama’s shopping forecast
Sun of the terminator
Digital revolution
Brand of others
W, Istanbul and the Sheraton, Lisbon
Tours de force
Chain gangs
Josephine Moulds tracks down the hot stocks to watch this month
Learning Japanese
Know the slopes to be seen on this winter with our pick of the world’s top ski resorts
Jelly vision
Brian Viner visits Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina and discovers a course to rival America’s finest
Turkey may have avoided the worst of this year’s global economic meltdown, but with Western economies heading into recession, what does the future hold? David O’Byrne reports
The market for supercars is stumbling. Will the launch of the California buck the trend or is Ferrari flogging a dead horse? Kyle Fortune reports
Natural selection
Footie’s indian summer
A new film about Che and some revolutionary cigars to smoke