A number of sporting bodies in Switzerland generate multi-millions in revenues Switzerland should beef up its laws to make sporting organisations more accountable, ethical and transparent, says an anti-corruption watchdog group. The alpine state is home to the headquarters of more global sporting bo...

Disputed: model of a Gripen fighter jet (Keystone) Less than two years after Swiss voters grounded gove ment plans to buy some Swedish fighter jets for Switzerland’s air force, the gove ment is trying once again, as the Swiss media report. The question is whether voters will this time be able to hav...

Tehran is a draw these days for foreign leaders hoping to capitalise on the nuclear deal Switzerland, like much of the rest of the world, has an eye on deepening its trade relations and other opportunities emerging from Iran’s newly open marketplace; but that’s where many of the comparisons end, bec...

Parkes-Bärfuss today, at age 101 (Mara Truog) As the child of a working-class family in Switzerland, Claire Parkes-Bärfuss had a tough start in life. Later, in London, she met Princess Margaret. The long, eventful life story of this 101-year-old is now a book. The one-room flat in Eggiwil in the Emm...

It’s a conflict we all know, but it weighs particularly heavily on environmental scientists: air travel allows researchers to take part in inte ational projects to discuss problems face-to-face, but it’s also damaging our climate and our environment. It’s a classic dilemma, and solving it will take ...

Infantino would have a tough job on his hands to restore FIFA's credibility A Swiss citizen from canton Valais, with a long career in football administration, wants to become president of FIFA. Sound familiar? Gianni Infantino says he is not Sepp Blatter, but critics point to him being a football in...

Former Georgian PM Ivanishvili does not accept that he may be partially to blame for his losses (Keystone) Another case of suspected bank rogue trading may once again raise the tho y subject of who is responsible: the trader, the client or the bank itself. Legal battle lines are already being drawn ...

The Swiss are used to voting and often do so in advance by post (Keystone) British politicians on both sides of the Brexit campaign cast this summer’s referendum as a once-in-a-lifetime chance for voters to have their say on a defining issue for the nation. In Switzerland, such opportunities are rat...

The cost of dealing with ski accidents in Switzerland has risen dramatically since the tu of the century, partly because higher numbers of older skiers are being injured. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) A report from the Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA) shows the total for treating injuries from win...

Tackling completely new words and new ways of pronouncing existing words isn't easy (Keystone) What does it take for a mother-tongue German speaker to re-programme a language they have spoken their entire life? Some Germans who move to Switzerland are lea ing the dialect spoken in much of the countr...

Much of the visible construction work in Verbier was approved long before the controversialxa0Lex Weberxa0building regulations came into effect at the start of 2016 (swissinfo.ch) A strong currency, tighter restrictions on second homes, falling numbers of skiers and erratic snow conditions: Swiss sk...

Cameron announced his deal with the EU at 10 Downing Street on Friday (Keystone) As Switzerland waits for the outcome of Britain’s vote on staying in the European Union to resolve its own issues with the 28-nation bloc, the Swiss press sees huge hazards in “Brexit” and David Cameron’s deal with the ...

Here are the stories we’ll be watching the week of February 22: (Keystone) Tuesday With its regional variations, the Swiss-German dialect can be a real linguistic challenge, even – and perhaps especially – for lifelong speakers of High German. We meet some mother-tongue German speakers in Switzerlan...

Nepalese mountain guides, skilled at taking clients up Mount Everest and other huge peaks, are retooling themselves as guardians of a new ski culture in Nepal. Since last year they have been lea ing to ski by following in the tracks of Disentis-based Swiss mountain guide Ervin Jacomet and renowned F...