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A court in Switzerland acquits Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini of illegally arranging payments while they served as presidents of FIFA and UEFA respectively.
2022-07-8

Swiss newspaper "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" reports that Mossad was responsible for three bombings of German and Swiss firms in 1981 to try to halt Iranian and Pakistani development of nuclear weapons.
2022-01-2

Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health reports a record of 8,616 new infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 135,658. In addition, in the last two weeks, the positivity rate has risen from 14% to 32%, higher than the peak of 26% during the first wave.
2020-10-28

An avalanche at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland injures four, one seriously, with fears that up to a dozen skiers may have been hit according to witnesses. 240 rescuers including police and army search the affected piste area. No further victims are immediately found, or missing persons reported.
2019-02-19

The leaders of northern and southern Cyprus meet in Switzerland to restart talks about reuniting the island.
2016-11-7

Voters in Switzerland go to the polls for a federal election, with the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland gaining the most seats compared to the 2007 election, and the Swiss People's Party losing eight seats but remaining the biggest party in the Federal Assembly.
2011-10-23

Oswald Grübel, chief executive of Swiss bank UBS, resigns in the wake of a rogue trading scandal.
2011-09-24

UBS trader Kweku Adoboli is charged with fraud and false accounting.
2011-09-16

The UK's Metropolitan Police arrest trader Kweku Adoboli after Swiss bank UBS says it lost $2bn (£1.3bn) as a result of unauthorised trading by a member of staff.
2011-09-15

Switzerland's UBS reports that it has lost US$2 billion on unauthorised deals by Kweku Adoboli, one of its London-based traders.
2011-09-15