EU court finds Swiss assisted-suicide laws vague
An elderly Swiss woman who would rather end her life now than decline further in health found sympathy Tuesday from the European Court of Human ...
FIFA moves $200M museum project to downtown Zurich
FIFA says its $200 million museum will now be created downtown in its home city of Zurich. One year ago, FIFA announced the museum would be built ...

Cost-cutting gives Credit Suisse a huge Q1 lift
Swiss bank Credit Suisse Group said Wednesday that its cost-cutting efforts helped it record a huge jump in first-quarter profits compared with a year ...

FIFA: Blatter neutral in Asian election race
FIFA has dismissed claims that Sepp Blatter supports Yousuf al-Serkal's bid to be elected Asian Football Confederation president next week. FIFA says ...
Missing Danish woman's body found in a Swiss barn
Swiss police say they have found the body of a 20-year-old Danish law student who had been missing for three weeks. Police in the northern canton ...

FIFA: World Cup qualifying is clean of fixing
FIFA's top investigator believes the 2014 World Cup qualifying program has been clean of match-fixing after more than 500 matches played so far.
Blatter softens position on relegation for racism
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has softened his stance on calling for clubs to be punished with relegation after serious racist abuse, suggesting fans ...

Boateng joins FIFA's anti-racism task force
AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who led teammates off the field in protest at being abused by fans in January, has joined FIFA's anti-racism ...

Museum to showcase contemporary Latin American art
Long a cultural backwater, Rio de Janeiro has taken another leap toward becoming an art hot spot with this week's opening of a museum built around one ...

FIFA tightens audit rules in $800M funding program
FIFA has tightened financial accounting standards in its $800 million development budget as part of transparency and anti-corruption reforms.

CONCACAF financial scandal could hurt US
With a seat on FIFA's rule-making panel up for grabs, America's quest to maintain a place at the table could be hurt in the fallout from a regional ...
Decision time looms in politics of FIFA reform
In a conclave at FIFA headquarters this week, a group of football leaders will work secretively over two days in their first session of 2013.

FIFA suspends executive during ethics probe
The fallout from the Mohamed bin Hammam corruption scandal in world football led to FIFA suspending another leading Asian member of its executive ...
Costa Rica pulls out of hosting U17 women's WCup
FIFA is looking for a new country to stage the Under-17 Women's World Cup next year because construction delays means the stadiums in Costa Rica would ...

FIFA to propose tougher sanctions for racist abuse
FIFA aims to approve tougher sanctions for racist abuse at football matches when its 209 member nations meet in May. FIFA President Sepp Blatter led ...

Soccer faces epic fight against match-fixing
Soccer is falling under a cloud of suspicion as never before, sullied by a multibillion-dollar web of match-fixing that is corrupting increasingly ...

Anti-corruption advisers challenge FIFA to change
FIFA's anti-corruption advisers urged President Sepp Blatter's executive committee on Friday to "demonstrate leadership" and not undermine efforts to ...

Lawsuits contribute to big UBS loss in Q4
Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS AG, posted Tuesday a 1.9 billion francs ($2.1 billion) loss for the fourth quarter in the wake of a series of ...
Blatter: FIFA reforms must apply worldwide
Cleaning up world football depends on all 209 member countries and six continental confederations following FIFA's example, Sepp Blatter said Friday.
FIFA prosecutor to deliver scandal file in March
FIFA ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia should submit his report on a decade-old World Cup kickbacks scandal by March, and will later focus on ...

FIFA warns of 'long' fight against match-fixing
FIFA security director Ralf Mutschke warns that football has "a long way to go" to defeat match-fixing by organized crime gangs. FIFA was involved in ...

FIFA prosecutor Garcia kept 'busier than expected'
FIFA prosecutor Michael Garcia has been kept busier than he expected trying to clean up world football — and his workload will probably increase after ...
FIFA aims to help clubs avoid using agents
FIFA aims to "revolutionize" the transfer market by helping clubs avoid using agents, who took commissions averaging 28 percent in cross-border player ...

US forward Wambach named world's best player
United States forward Abby Wambach was named FIFA Women's World Player of the Year on Monday, adding the game's biggest individual prize to her London ...

Guardiola confirms he will be back next season
Former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola confirms he will return to football next season, but won't speculate where he might go. Guardiola says "I have ...