RIYADH — At the culmination of realizing years of dreaming, jubilant Saudi citizens gathered in public squares, parks, and in front of television screens to witness a monumental moment in the nation's sports history: the official announcement of (...)
FIFA revealed the nominees for The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024 on Friday, highlighting football's brightest stars across men's and women's categories. The awards will feature fan voting, which is open on FIFA.com until December 10.
Best Men's (...)
Police in Switzerland have made multiple arrests after a woman reportedly ended her life using a so-called suicide pod.
The controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to commit suicide was used for the first time, (...)
A major IT outage has brought banks, media outlets, and airlines grinding to a halt on Friday, causing chaos at airport check-in, canceled flights, and disrupted services worldwide.
Reports of outages have been streaming in from around the globe, (...)
ZURICH — Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed Al-Jadaan said that Saudi Arabia is looking forward to exploring new areas to further deepen collaboration with Switzerland, including the insurance field, while tapping new markets and implementing best (...)
ABHA — Abha International Airport has become the first silent airport in Saudi Arabia. The airport authorities have announced on Thursday the decision to transform the airport into a silent one. There won't be any more announcements with regard to (...)
The World Economic Forum's (WEF) special meeting in Riyadh this week provided a fresh perspective on some of the world's major development issues and growth opportunities.
As host nation, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia injected ambition and optimism (...)
Canadian police have made arrests and issued nine warrants in the largest gold theft in the country's history.
More than 6,500 gold bars worth C$20m (£11.6m), were stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport, in April 2023, along with millions in cash.
The (...)
At least five people have been killed and others injured in a motorway crash involving a coach near the eastern German city of Leipzig.
The FlixBus coach veered to the right on the busy A9 autobahn before falling on to its side.
The FlixBus service (...)
Swiss voters have given themselves an extra month's pension each year — in a nationwide referendum focusing on living standards for the elderly.
The government had warned that the increased payments would be too expensive to afford.
But almost 60% (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been grounded in Switzerland after his plane had a "critical failure" due to an oxygen leak, officials said.
America's top diplomat was due to return from the World Economic Forum in Davos when the flight (...)
The Switzerland Tourism Authority organized a distinguished press conference in the heart of Jeddah in the presence of many representatives of various media outlets and social media influencers, led by Abdul Khaliq bin Abdullah Al-Zahrani, Director (...)
A US-based security company has sued Air Canada over gold bars and cash worth millions that were stolen from Toronto's airport in April.
Brink's International alleges the airline was "reckless" and had failed to prevent the theft.
The goods, worth (...)
RIYADH — The current month of October will be decisive with regard to Saudi Arabia's preparations after the official announcement of its intention to bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. This is in view of the fact that the International Federation (...)
The 2030 World Cup will be held across six countries in three continents, FIFA has confirmed.
Spain, Portugal and Morocco have been named as the co-hosts, with the opening three matches taking place in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.
The opening (...)
ZURICH — King Abdulaziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity Mawhiba has presented Saudi Arabia's preparation to organize the International Chemistry Olympiad 2024.
In front of the representatives of 89 countries and with the (...)
In October 2022, at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich — the international "Home of Football" — Anthony Cioppa gave a presentation on the rapidly developing artificial intelligence (AI) project SoccerNet.
The presentation was the culmination of five (...)
Celebrities and fans have paid tribute to Tina Turner, the soul star behind hits like The Best and What's Love Got to Do With It, who has died aged 83.
Beyoncé said she was the "epitome of passion and power", while Sir Mick Jagger called her a (...)
تتسابق شركات التكنولوجيا لتضمين نماذج لغة الذكاء الاصطناعي في العديد من المنتجات لمساعدة الأشخاص على القيام بكل شيء بدءًا من حجز الرحلات إلى تنظيم التقويمات الخاصة بهم لتدوين الملاحظات في الاجتماعات.
لكن الطريقة التي تعمل بها هذه المنتجات - تلقي (...)
Four bankers who allowed a friend of Vladimir Putin to deposit huge sums in Swiss banks have been found guilty of lacking due diligence.
The former executives at the Zurich branch of Russia's Gazprombank were given hefty fines for helping musician (...)
Chintan Suhagiya is only 26, but already has seven years' experience working in India's diamond industry.
Starting out, he ferried diamonds around his company, based in the world's diamond polishing capital, Surat in western India.
But over the (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Tuesday afternoon at Irqah Palace in Riyadh, extended the exemption period of small enterprises by one year, from the date of expiration, from paying the financial fee.
The (...)
Innovative science is often a source of inspiration for artists. When photographers Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato encountered autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) at KAUST's Red Sea Research Center, they did not just see scientific (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, chaired the Cabinet's session held on Tuesday afternoon at Irqah Palace in Riyadh.
At the outset of the session, the Cabinet was briefed on the content of the two letters (...)
The 13th meeting of the joint Saudi-Swiss Economic Committee and the Saudi-Swiss Investment Forum was held here today with the attendance of Minister of Investment Eng. Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih and Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin, head of the (...)
