$200,000 Whisky is Pure Hedonism

From mobile phones for the mass market to fine wines for the very rich. Russian millionaire Yevgeny Chichvarkin's new venture Hedonism Wines may contain the finest selection of wine and spirits in the world. They're definitely among the most expensive, with one bottle going for $200,000.

Asia's Best and Worst as 2012 Wraps Up

There's only a few more trading days to go in 2012. Bloomberg's David Ingles looks where the money was made in Asia this year.

As the churn continues (2:01)

Dec. 20 - Summary of business headlines: Stocks rally as hope trumps fear on fiscal cliff talks; NYSE to be sold to ICE for billions; Economic growth faster than thought; RIM, Nike beat forecasts, but Carnival warns. Conway G. Gittens reports.

Visitors flock to Turkish town to escape doomsday (1:02)

Dec. 20 - Tourists begin to arrive in Sirince, the Western Turkish town believed to be one of the few places on earth that will be saved from the end of the world predicted by the Mayan calendar. Sarah Irwin reports.

Life goes on despite 'Mayan Apocalypse'

Published 20 December 2012 05:33

Thousands of tourists are flocking to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to be part of the so-called "Mayan Apocalypse". Many of them believe the world is coming to an end this Friday, when a major cycle of the Mayan calendar ends. Some say the 5000-year-old Mayan civilization is entering a new era. So what do the Mayan people think themselves? Al Jazeera's David Mercer visited a Guatemalan highland village to find out.