The legendary formula one driver died at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland on Monday night surrounded by his closest family members
Despite calls for a postponement and sponsors’ concerns about football’s image, Sepp Blatter won’t budge on the timing of Fifa’s presidential poll.
Two Fifa executive committee members were banned and fined following an investigation into allegations they had offered to sell their vote.
Manchester United and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo was on Monday named Fifa World Footballer of the Year for 2008.
Russia’s Nikolai Valuev successfully defended his WBA title on Saturday night with a win over former world champion Evander Holyfield.
UBS will cut 5 500 jobs in one the biggest purges seen so far in the financial markets crisis, as the Swiss wealth-management titan slashes at the investment bank that plunged it…
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died aged 102, the organisation that republished his book on the mind-altering substance said.…
UBS AG doubled its writedowns from the subprime crisis, parted company with its chairperson and asked shareholders for more emergency capital on Tuesday in a second dramatic…
Fifa president Sepp Blatter showed his solidarity with the construction workers who are getting 10 stadiums in South Africa ready for the 2010 World Cup. Blatter met with leaders…
Société Générale, at the centre of a huge trading scandal, began investigating trades executed by Jerome Kerviel months before his activities were exposed in January, a media…
Paintings worth about -million were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery in the second dramatic art theft in the area within days, police said on Monday. Oil paintings…
Frequent power failures in South Africa won’t affect the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the man who is expected to be the country’s next president said on Tuesday. African National…
Brazil, the only bidding country, were named as the host nation of the 2014 Soccer World Cup finals by Fifa, world soccer’s governing body, on Tuesday. Brazil, who have won the…
Fifa’s executive committee has voted unanimously to end its policy of rotating the hosting of World Cups through its six continental confederations. Executive committee…
Fifa’s executive committee is expected to drop its controversial Soccer World Cup rotation policy when it meets at the organisation’s headquarters in Zurich on Monday. World…
An amateur palaeontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe’s largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus. The dinosaurs’ bones came to…
The Brazilian football association (CBF) formally submitted its plans for staging the 2014 World Cup on Tuesday but kept the details close to its chest. A Brazilian delegate,…
Pele and Samuel Eto’o headed the list of international stars on Thursday when Fifa announced the line-ups for a match to honour Nelson Mandela’s 89th birthday. More than 50…
The opening match and final of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa will take place at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. Fifa’s executive committee said on Wednesday…
Assets held by the world’s richest people rose by 11,4% last year, a study showed, but a slowing world economy might put a brake on the lavish expansion rate in coming years.…
