Switzerland

Sport

Alpine skiing: Puchner wins final downhill of season for first ever victory

Austrian Mirjam Puchner waited until the final downhill of the women’s 2015/2016 World Cup campaign to celebrate the first race win of her career

16/03/2016

Sport

Alpine skiing: Feuz takes downhill race win as FIll makes history with discipline title

Swiss skier Beat Feuz won the last men’s downhill race of the season on Wednesday at the World Cup finals in St. Moritz. Feuz finally hit the top

16/03/2016

Switzerland

"Rhetoric could derail Syria talks" warns UN after opening session

UN sponsored talks are due to resume today in Geneva aimed at creating a roadmap to end the conflict in Syria. But after day one the UN’s Syria

15/03/2016

Cinema

Human rights film festival shines a light on human wrongs

The idea behind the “International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights”: http://www.fifdh.org/site/fr/le- is to provoke debate and to shine a

14/03/2016

Switzerland

A fresh round of Syrian peace talks gets underway in Geneva

The conflict began five years ago this week

14/03/2016

Sport

Alpine Skiing: Lara Gut claims World Cup title as compatriot Holdener wins combined crown

The alpine combined event at Lenzerheide in Switzerland turned out to be a triumphant day for two home skiers. Wendy Holdener took the race win and

13/03/2016

Switzerland

Switzerland reveals plans to cut down on immigration amid EU row

Switzerland on Friday unveiled tough draft legislation to impose unilateral curbs on immigration should it fail to agree with the European Union by

04/03/2016

Switzerland

Supercars vye to rev up Geneva auto show

They’re not to everyone’s taste and they’re certainly not for everyone’s pocket but supercars may be screaming the loudest at this year’s Geneva

02/03/2016

Sport

Platini enters last chance saloon to overturn FIFA ban

Banned Uefa president Michel Platini has walked into the last chance saloon in a bid to overturn his suspension from all football-related activity

02/03/2016

Sport

French authorities to investigate Rio and Tokyo Olympic bids

Judges at France’s highest financial court in Paris are to investigate the bidding and voting processes for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro and 2020 Tokyo

02/03/2016

Business Series

Commodity markets rout slams miner Glencore's profit

2015 was a grim year for mining company and commodity trader Glencore with profit down by almost a third as prices for copper, nickel, zinc, iron-ore and coal slumped to multi-year lows.

01/03/2016

Sport

Gianni Infantino opens new FIFA museum

Celebrating the passion of the people for football – that in the words of FIFA President Gianni Infantino is the DNA of football’s world governing

28/02/2016

Switzerland

Swiss reject deportation of foreign criminals in referendum

Swiss voters have rejected a right-wing proposal to deport foreign law-breakers in a referendum. The end tally showed 58.9 percent coming out against

28/02/2016

Switzerland

Swiss vote in referendum to deport low-level criminals

A controversial black sheep poster urging voters in Switzerland to make it easier to deport non-Swiss criminals. The right-wing Swiss People’s Party

27/02/2016

Sport

Gianni Infantino appointment welcomed by Sepp Blatter

From the conference hall to meet the press and the first time Gianni Infantino was put under the media microscope as President of FIFA. There will be

26/02/2016

Switzerland

FIFA elects new president - Gianni Infantino

Gianni Infantino, general secretary of the European football body UEFA, has been elected to succeed Sepp Blatter as President of FIFA. Infantino, who

26/02/2016

Sport

FIFA's five presidential candidates

The FIFA presidential elections take place on Friday in Zurich Switzerland. Five contenders are in the running to replace banned outgoing president

25/02/2016

Sport

Blatter and Platini bans reduced from eight to six years

Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his once likely successor Michel Platini have had their bans from all football-related activity reduced from eight-years to six.

24/02/2016

Sport

Prince Ali's FIFA presidential election delay rejected

FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein has had his attempt to delay the elections rejected by the Court of Arbitration fro Sport

24/02/2016

Sport

Show me the money: FIFA, corruption and where the millions come from and go to

As FIFA elects a new president, euronews has an in-depth report on how world football's governing body plunged into the worst corruption crisis in its history and how it makes its millions.

24/02/2016

Sport

FIFA ethics investigator recommends life bans for Bedoya and Jadue

World soccer’s chief ethics investigator has recommended life bans for the former presidents of the Colombian and Chilean football federations after

18/02/2016

Switzerland

Frontrunners submit low-cost bids for 2024 Olympics

Here is an analysis of the bids of the two frontrunners, Paris and Los Angeles.

18/02/2016

Sport

Alpine skiing: Shiffrin makes winning return after injury

Olympic and World champion Mikaela Shiffrin made a winning return to the Alpine skiing world cup circuit on Monday when the American won a slalom

15/02/2016

World

Prince Ali bin al Hussein's bid to 'clean up' FIFA

FIFA is set to elect a new president on the 26th of February amid the worst crisis in its history. Rocked by a series of corruption scandals over the

15/02/2016

Sport

FIFA scandal: Valcke banned for 12 years

Jerome Valcke has joined the growing list of disgraced FIFA officials to be banned from football related activities after the Frenchman was handed a

12/02/2016

Sport

FIFA political disloyalty leads to reprisals - Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein

FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein on Tuesday claimed there is a climate of fear and reprisals within the football’s world

11/02/2016