Three-time major winner Stan Wawrinka says 2026 will be his last year on tour.

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest have announced a final list of 35 countries that will take part in the glitzy pop-music gala next year.

New Zealand’s Alice Robinson has won a World Cup super-G for her first career victory in the discipline.

Swiss skier Loic Meillard leads the opening run of a World Cup slalom and is in position to claim his second victory of the Olympic season in two days.

Iceland's national broadcaster has announced it will boycott next year's Eurovision Song Contest due to discord over Israel's participation.

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Germany will host the 2029 Women's European Championship.

Barcelona says three-time Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí will be out of action for about five months after successfully undergoing surgery on her fractured leg on Tuesday.

Ski star Lara Gut-Behrami has suffered a potentially career-ending left knee injury during training in the United States.

European qualifying for the 2026 World Cup has concluded with Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Scotland and Austria securing the region’s remaining automatic spots.

Anthropic has announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure, including new data centers in Texas and New York.

Spain and England will renew their great rivalry in women’s soccer in a qualifying group for the 2027 World Cup.

The Swiss village of Blatten might have been left for dead after a devastating landslide five months ago.

Olympic champion Marco Odermatt held off a challenge by home crowd favorite Marco Schwarz to win the season-opening men’s World Cup giant slalom in the Austrian Alps.

France has missed a chance to secure a spot at the 2026 World Cup after being held to 2-2 at Iceland.

Swiss glaciers have faced significant melting this year, with a 3% drop in total volume, marking the fourth-largest annual decline on record.

Roger Federer leads the list of nominees for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2026.

Spain has joined the group of countries threatening not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest unless Israel is excluded from the competition over the war in the Gaza Strip.

The Netherlands has joined several countries urging the Eurovision Song Contest to exclude Israel due to its actions in Gaza.

Swiss federal prosecutors have finally ended their case against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini after 10 years and acquittals after two trials.

Next year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Vienna.

Nations are crafting the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution.

Montse Tomé had expected to keep her job as coach of Spain’s women’s national team after leading it to the final of the European Championship last month and doesn’t know why her contract wasn’t extended.

Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders held signs in front of the United Nations buildings in Geneva where talks for a global accord to end plastic pollution are taking place.

Spain’s women’s national team is making a coaching change two weeks after reaching the final of the European Championship.

The U.S. was knocked off the top spot in FIFA’s latest women’s rankings by world champion Spain.

Switzerland’s president and other top officials are traveling to Washington in a hastily arranged trip aimed at striking a deal with the Trump administration over steep tariffs.

A Dutch group has filed a class action lawsuit against FIFA and five other football associations.

The European Union’s top court has ruled that some decisions by international governing bodies, such as FIFA and the IOC, can be challenged outside Switzerland, opening up a system that currently binds athletes, officials and clubs to accept verdicts there.

Despite UEFA’s commitment to women’s soccer with a $1 billion strategy through 2030, its president Aleksander Ceferin wasn't seen at the Women’s European Championship except for on the opening day and the final.

The women's soccer players of Spain have gone from nobodies to title contenders in less than a decade.

England and Spain are set to face off in the Women's European Championship final, echoing their World Cup clash two years ago.

Some captains are wearing them, some are not.

Spain has ruthlessly ended Switzerland’s dreamy midsummer run through its home Women’s European Championship in a 2-0 win in the quarterfinals in Bern.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine's new government plans to boost domestic arms production to meet half its military’s needs within six months.

Host nation Switzerland has put its Women’s European Championship campaign back on track with a 2-0 win over Iceland, eliminating its opponents in the process.

Norway winger Caroline Graham Hansen showed why she was second in the Ballon d’Or vote last year to her superstar Barcelona teammate Aitana Bonmatí.

India’s push toward winning the 2036 Olympics hosting contest has seemed to stall a little in the first big decision of Kirsty Coventry’s IOC presidency.

The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role on Monday.

The U.S. conceded four goals in the first half, failed to get a shot on target and were embarrassed in a 4-0 blowout loss to Switzerland in a friendly.

The Mexican national soccer team will change hotels in Los Angeles ahead of their Gold Cup match on Saturday because of safety concerns amid the protests against immigration raids in the city.

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

Tage Thompson scored at 2:02 of overtime to the give the United States a 1-0 victory over Switzerland on Sunday for its second world hockey championship and first since 1933.

Classically trained countertenor JJ of Austria wins 69th Eurovision Song Contest with his pop-opera song “Wasted Love.”.

Acts from more than two dozen countries will take the stage in Basel, Switzerland, to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.

One song generating a lot of froth at the Eurovision Song Contest is “Espresso Macchiato.”.

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest is approaching its grand final in the Swiss city of Basel.

Ukraine’s musicians can’t escape war, even at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Competition in the Eurovision Song Contest has kicked off with the first of two semifinals.

The Eurovision party is officially underway.

U.S. and Chinese officials say they have reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90 day pause so they can keep talking to resolve their trade disputes.

The United Nations agency that fights HIV says it plans to slash its workforce by more than half as a result of sweeping funding cuts from longtime donors in the United States, Asia and Europe.

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in May in Basel, Switzerland.

The Swiss president says Switzerland is among 15 countries with which the United States plans to conduct “privileged” negotiations to help reach a deal in the wake of sweeping U.S. tariffs on dozens of countries that have shaken global markets.

The Swiss town of Neuchâtel is offering residents a novel form of preventative or preparatory medicine.

Soprano Renée Fleming will make her directing debut in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” at the Aspen Festival with three performances from July 21-26.

Franjo von Allmen wins gold in the men’s downhill at the Alpine skiing world championships to complete a sweep of the speed events by the Swiss team after Marco Odermatt took the super-G.

The media group Semafor has visions for creating an economic forum for the United States that rivals the annual event in Davos, Switzerland.

The Trump administration has rescinded a plan for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars after it was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek said it was hit by a cyber attack on Monday that disrupted users’ ability to register on the site.

The World Economic Forum's annual gathering of elites in Davos has ended with many business leaders, world-class academics, top government officials and other elites casting an upbeat tone about economic prospects, efforts to end wars and technological progress.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media.

President Donald Trump promised global elites lower taxes if they bring manufacturing to the U.S. and threatened to impose tariffs if they don’t.

Leading business and political figures attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have discussed and debated topics such as technology, tariffs, climate change, Ukraine, Gaza and the global economy this week.

Atle Lie McGrath has protected his first-run lead and completed a Norwegian sweep of the podium in a World Cup slalom at Wengen.

FIFA has apologized to the Ukrainian soccer federation for displaying a map during its World Cup qualifying draw that excluded Russia-occupied Crimea from the country’s territory.

Finnish advocacy group Oikeutta Elaimille, or Justice for Animals, and Humane Society International have released images taken from an “undercover investigation” at three fur farms in western Finland in late October to highlight the behind-the-scenes realities of the trade.

Cornelia Huetter of Austria navigated the tricky and steep terrain to win the first-ever women’s World Cup downhill held on the Birds of Prey course.

British lawmakers are expected to vote on a law proposed to help terminally ill adults end their lives.

The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled.

The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara is suggesting that dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front could be one way to settle the decades-long conflict.

Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule say they have suspended the process of taking applications for its use as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed.

Winter sports are facing a long-time crisis because of climate change and the International Ski and Snowboard Federation has teamed up with the United Nations weather agency.

Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%.

Swiss 18-year-old cyclist Muriel Furrer has died one day after sustaining a head injury in a crash at the road world championships.

Police in northern Switzerland say several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a new “suicide capsule.”.

South Korean shooter Jinho Park completed a full set of Paralympic medals after winning the men’s 10-meter air rifle standing SH1 final in Paris.

The Swiss city of Basel will host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest from May 13 to 17.

Sudan’s paramilitary leader has announced plans to attend cease-fire talks in Switzerland next month arranged by the United States and Saudi Arabia.

England coach Gareth Southgate is expecting his players to peak in the final stages of the European Championship after blaming their sluggish performances so far on increased expectations among the public.

England beat Switzerland 5-3 in a penalty shootout to reach the semifinals of Euro 2024 after a 1-1 draw in extra time.

Defending champion Italy has crashed out of the European Championship with a 2-0 defeat to Switzerland in Berlin.

Amazon is reviewing claims that the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI is scraping content — including from prominent news sites — without approval.

Turkey has welcomed a decision by an international watchdog to remove it from a so-called “gray list” of countries that have not fully implemented measures to fight money laundering and terrorism financing.

Germany found a stoppage-time goal from substitute Niclas Füllkrug to draw 1-1 with Switzerland on Sunday and ensure the host nation finished top of its group.

Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust.

With less than three weeks to go until Britain’s election day, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is running out of time to change the tune.

Health authorities say a man in Mexico died from a type of bird flu called H5N2 that has never before been found in a human.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused China of helping Russia to disrupt a Swiss-organized peace conference on the war in Ukraine.

David Pastrnak and David Kampf scored as the Czech Republic shut out Switzerland 2-0 to win the ice hockey world championship.

Dylan Cozens scored two goals and had an assist to rally Canada past Switzerland 3-2 for the sixth win from six games at the ice hockey world championship.

Swiss Eurovision fans were getting ready to give a hero’s welcome to singer Nemo, who won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code,” an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing a nongender identity.

The head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that the world economy has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of higher interest rates and the shock of war in Ukraine and Gaza, but “there is plenty to worry about,″ including stubborn inflation and rising levels of government debt.

The head of the International Monetary Fund says strong economic activity in the United States and emerging markets is projected to help drive global growth by about 3% this year.

Switzerland says it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path toward peace in Ukraine after more than two years of war, in hopes that Russia might join in the peace process one day.

Europe’s highest human rights court has ruled that its member nations must better protect their citizens from the consequences of climate change.

Lara Gut-Behrami has secured the women’s World Cup overall and giant slalom titles after finishing 10th in the GS at the World Cup finals.

Spain's prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state.

Geneva-based commodities trading firm Gunvor said Friday that it has reached $661 million settlement with U.S. and Swiss prosecutors after a conviction for bribery of foreign officials in connection with the petroleum industry in Ecuador.