Fur and finance, snow and supremacy: there are just two weeks to go before global leaders converge at the World Economic Forum's annual jamboree in the Alpine resort of Davos. Off the piste the heady mix of royalty, billionaire tycoons and top politicians are officially tasked with tackling "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models". Rarely has a conference title had more poignant urgency: the European Union leaders' summit on the advancing debt crisis follows immediately on January 30. Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Nicolas Sarkozy, Christine Lagarde of the IMF and Mario Draghi, the boss of the European ... (full story)