The Life: Swiss Development Group, the property developer which is marketing its super luxury Du Parc Kempinski Private Residences, is looking to Middle Eastern investors to buy its multi-million-dirham penthouses. Read Article Anyone want a Swiss penthouse?
Switzerland began investigating allegations in the late 1990s that president Asif Ali Zardari and his late wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, had taken $12 million in kickbacks from Swiss cargo inspection companies and stashed the money in Swiss accounts. Read Article Swiss will not reopen $12m graft probe into Pakistan's Zardari
Verbier is one of the best-known Swiss ski resorts thanks to its heady mix of off-piste terrain, an extensive ski area, great nightlife and luxurious accommodation. Read Article My Kind of Place: Verbier, Switzerland
The US government has raised the stakes in its crackdown on Swiss banks through a prosecution that forced the closing of a 272-year-old Swiss firm for offering tax-evasion services to wealthy Americans. Read Article Oldest Swiss bank closed in tax service crackdown
UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank, must pay about 1.4 billion Swiss francs to US, UK and Swiss regulators for trying to rig global interest rates, triple the penalties levied against Barclays. Read Article UBS fined $1.5 billion in Libor-fixing scandal
Two UN agencies have mapped the intersection of health and climate in an age of global warming, showing that there are increases in meningitis when dust storms hit and outbreaks of dengue fever when hard rains come. Read Article UN maps to give early warnings on disease
Controls required to help guard against a repeat of the boom and bust cycle in the Dubai property market, Masood Ahmed, the director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, said. IMF official urges caution amid resurgence in Dubai property
Some warn of a return to the dark days of 2006 and 2007, but Sunni political pragmatism may show a peaceful way forward. Analysis by Iraq historian Reidar Visser How Iraq can pull back from the brink
