Chris Froome has admitted it must be demoralising for rival teams at the Tour de France to try and come up with a plan to unseat the Team Sky rider as leader of the race.

Dublin is the second most expensive city in the eurozone in which to live for foreign workers, a study shows.

Mary Anne Noland wasn’t too enamoured with the possibility of a President Trump or a President Clinton - and she decided not to stick around.

Swiss banks have a new money-laundering worry: Venezuela.

Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent and unprecedented fact-finding mission to investigate a US air strike on a hospital run by the medical aid group in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people.

The US has submitted a formal request for Switzerland to extradite seven Fifa officials arrested in Zurich as part of a corruption probe that has rocked soccer’s world governing body.

Dublin has moved up two places in the rankings of the most expensive locations for foreign workers in the Eurozone.

Everton boss Roberto Martinez has hit back at what he feels has been some "cheap talk" about his players’ efforts of late.

A new study has put Dublin as the best place in Europe - and second in the entire world - for US citizens to live in.

A Swiss hostage has escaped from Abu Sayyaf extremists after more than two years of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines, officials have said.

The crisis in Italian football is a bit like climate change.

A snake has forced 450 passengers off a train in Switzerland while police searched for the reptile.

Swiss police are continuing to investigate how a 45-year-old Corkman died from a stabbing in an apartment in the city of Neuchâtel.

Signal-jumping is thought to have caused a head-on train crash in Switzerland, in which one person died and 35 were injured.

At least 35 people have been injured, five seriously, in a head-on collision between two regional trains in western Switzerland.

Forty-four people have been injured, four of them seriously, in a head-on train collision between two train in western Switzerland, police said tonight.

England manager Roy Hodgson is today set to rule out any Indian summer to Rio Ferdinand’s international career.

Swiss MPs have rejected a proposal to ban face-covering veils, such as the burka worn by some Muslim women, in public spaces.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is predicting a bright future for midfielder Jonjo Shelvey after a two-goal cameo substitute appearance in last night’s 5-3 Europa League win over Young Boys in Bern.

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Liverpool have left a host of senior stars behind for their Europa League Group A tie with Young Boys in Bern.

Swiss authorities say a self-styled healer has been indicted on charges that he intentionally infected 16 people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, between 2001 and 2005.

Wladimir Klitschko retained his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles with a sixth-round stoppage of Tony Thompson in Bern last night.

Roy Hodgson insists no amount of practice can prepare you for the trauma of a penalty shoot-out.

Fernando Torres has targeted more goals at Euro 2012 after his effort in Spain’s 4-1 friendly win over South Korea.

Spain 4 South Korea 1

A tourist bus that slammed into a concrete wall in a Swiss Alps tunnel, killing 28 people, was not speeding, Swiss police have said.

Dublin ranks higher than Paris, London or New York in a league of the world’s top cities for living standards.

ROBBIE KEANE will be hoping his experience of playing on an artificial pitch today will be a happier one than the last time he stepped out on astroturf.

Google’s street-view service for Switzerland could be switched off unless the country’s supreme court overturns a ruling requiring a guarantee of anonymity for anyone pictured, the company said.

THERE must be something in the water in Madrid. How else to explain the fact that Harry Redknapp joined Jose Mourinho in an outbreak of honesty yesterday, forgetting the phoney war and ditching the mind games?

Airlines are starting more than 120 new services from UK airports this summer.

A 54-YEAR-OLD man has admitted sexually abusing more than 100 handicapped children in care homes in Switzerland and Germany.

A 54-year-old man has admitted sexually abusing more than 100 disabled children in care homes in Switzerland and Germany, Swiss police said today.

More than a dozen Swiss soldiers were injured after a multiple tank pile up on a training ground today.

HAT-TRICK hero Peter Crouch fired Tottenham into the Champions League group stages last night and roared: bring on Europe’s finest.

Tottenham 4 Young Boys 0 (Tottenham win 6-3 on aggregate)

Harry Redknapp today admitted Tottenham would not deserve to be in the Champions League if they fail to win Wednesday night’s play-off second leg against Young Boys.

TOTTENHAM defender Michael Dawson plans to give Young Boys a taste of their own medicine in next week’s must-win Champions League showdown at White Hart Lane.

Jermaine Jenas will miss Tottenham’s Champions League play-off round first leg at Young Boys tomorrow night due to a calf strain.

Switzerland will make an announcement today about film director Roman Polanski’s extradition to the United States for a 1977 sex case.

AN experimental solar-powered plane completed its first 24-hour test flight successfully yesterday, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night.

An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely today after completing its first 24-hour test flight.