Switzerland

Switzerland

HSBC to pay 38 million euros to settle Swiss money-laundering probe

HSBC has agreed to pay Geneva authorities some 38 million euros to settle a money laundering investigation at its Swiss private bank, Geneva’s

04/06/2015

Switzerland

FIFA's week of rolling heads

Sepp Blatter went quietly. The head of FIFA withdrew with his chin up, saying he felt he didn’t have the football world’s unanimous support. He put

03/06/2015

Switzerland

Large Hadron Collider smashes energy record

Smashing particles and records: the Large Hadron Collider has reached the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV.

03/06/2015

Switzerland

Large Hadron Collider opens "new chapter in physics"

03/06/2015

Sport

FIFA presidency: Who's next?

With Switzerland’s Sepp Blatter announcing he will resign as the president of FIFA after 17 years in the role, attention will now turn to who will

02/06/2015

Switzerland

US report claims FBI opens corruption inquiry into FIFA president Sepp Blatter

FIFA chief Sepp Blatter has said that he is to step down just four days after being re-elected to a fifth term.

02/06/2015

Switzerland

Fifagate: Further pressure on Blatter as allegations of 10m dollar bribe emerge

The UK Press Association (PA) says it has obtained evidence proving FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke was aware of a 10-million-dollar payment to

02/06/2015

Switzerland

FIFA corruption probe: more arrests and suspensions

US prosecutors investigating FIFA corruption believe Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant made 10 million dollars in bank transactions central to the

02/06/2015

Switzerland

US and Iran seek common ground as nuclear deal deadline nears

US Secretary of State John Kerry has met his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in a bid to overcome obstacles to a final nuclear agreement, a

31/05/2015

Switzerland

Defiant Blatter hits back at critics after FIFA re-election

Sepp Blatter has turned on his critics following his re-election as head of football’s world governing body for a fifth term. FIFA’s president

30/05/2015

Switzerland

Blatter re-elected for fifth term as FIFA president

Not even the corruption scandal that has recently hit FIFA could stop Sepp Blatter being re-elected for a fifth term as President of world football’s

29/05/2015

Switzerland

FIFA: Palestinians drop vote to get Israel suspended from world football

A handshake between the representatives of Israeli and Palestinian football associations at the FIFA congress marks the end of the motion to get

29/05/2015

Switzerland

Blatter the unsinkable amid FIFA's corruption storm

The small Swiss town of Visp where Joseph Blatter grew up is surrounded by mountains – yet the young Sepp’s destiny was to be far from Alpine peaks

29/05/2015

Switzerland

(UPDATE) FIFA's other match: Palestinians drop motion to suspend Israel from world football

The Palestinians have complained for years that Israel discriminates against its players and officials, but the PFA president has been persuaded to back down on FIFA vote.

29/05/2015

Switzerland

Sepp Blatter shrugs off scandal ahead of FIFA presidential vote

Embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter appeared unfazed as the 65th Congress of football’s world governing body opened in Zurich. His speech to the

29/05/2015

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Protesters demand the resignation of FIFA's Blatter

29/05/2015

Switzerland

Sepp Blatter expected to be reelected as FIFA president despite corruption scandal

Sepp Blatter appears relaxed about his reelection as FIFA president, even as world soccer’s governing body is engulfed in corruption charges. Blatter

29/05/2015

Switzerland

Sepp Blatter: corruption scandal casts 'long shadow over football'

FIFA President Sepp Blatter says the latest corruption scandal to hit the governing body has cast a “long shadow over football.” Speaking at the

28/05/2015

World

'FIFA lives in a kind of 'Alice in Wonderland' world'

The ‘beautiful game’ has been plunged into turmoil as seven powerful football figures face extradition to the US to face corruption charges

28/05/2015

Switzerland

FIFA scandal: Blatter keeps low profile, sponsors threaten to review ties

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been avoiding scheduled appearances in Switzerland, as world football’s governing body is gripped by another

28/05/2015

Switzerland

Football 'corrupted': Five main points in FIFA and World Cup scandals

Bribes US justice authorities are pursuing their case on four fronts against FIFA, the powerful international governing body of association football

28/05/2015

Switzerland

EU and Switzerland agree to clamp down on tax evasion

A deal has been signed between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland in an effort to clamp down on tax evasion. The European Commission (EC)

27/05/2015

Switzerland

Football's most powerful figures await extradition to US

Several of the global football industry’s most powerful figures are in detention waiting extradition to the United States after being arrested in

27/05/2015

Switzerland

"This is good for Fifa" world football's governing body reacts to arrest of senior executives

Fifa has responded to the arrest of six of its senior executives at the request of US authorities on corruption charges. The organisation’s head of

27/05/2015

Switzerland

'Rampant corruption:' US orders arrest of senior FIFA executives

FIFA is reeling after Swiss police arrested seven senior executives, including two vice presidents, at the luxury Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich in a

27/05/2015

Switzerland

Swiss police arrest several senior Fifa executives in a morning raid at a five-star hotel in Zurich

Swiss police have arrested a number of Fifa executives following a morning raid on a five-star hotel in Zurich. The arrests were made at the request

27/05/2015