  The prolific field of B meson decays and CP violation is illustrated in a few
examples of recent results: The measurement of the CKM unitarity angle $\beta =
\phi_1$, the measurement of a significant violation of time reversal symmetry,
an unexplained isospin asymmetry in penguin decays, a hint on scalar charged
bosons from the semileptonic B decay to the heavy lepton $\tau$, and B decays
to baryons.
