James Patterson’s Private Vegas: a $300,000 self-destructing book for the superfan

A special edition of the crime-fiction king’s new novel will include a five-course dinner with the author, gold binoculars – and a very limited time to read it

Cartier owner’s shares hit by Swiss currency turmoil and Hong Kong protest

Shares in Swiss watchmakers were hardest hit, because the central bank’s decision to scrap the currency cap will make their goods more expensive in vital foreign markets

Swiss franc – what the economists say

What the experts are saying about the Swiss National Bank’s decision to abandon the currency cap

Japan’s Just A Way has been rated the best horse in the world for 2014

• Runaway success in Dubai Duty Free earns horse top spot
• Kingman in joint third place after being forced to retire

Philharmonie de Paris: Jean Nouvel’s €390m spaceship crash-lands in France

Paris’s gargantuan new concert hall is two years late, cost three times what it should, and its architect even snubbed its opening … Oliver Wainwright tackles a tyrannical new mothership