Lake Zurich

The long arm of American justice had already been shaking up Switzerland, a country with a vaunted culture of secrecy. The arrests of several officials of FIFA, soccer's governing body, in a highly coordinated operation during which plainclothes Swiss officers raided a five-star hotel overlooking Lake Zurich, have a firm legal basis in both countri...

The Baur au Lac, which overlooks Lake Zurich, provided an unlikely setting for the apprehension of six global soccer executives who were arrested on corruption charges and now face extradition to the United States. The operation took less than two hours and was strikingly peaceful - no handcuffs, no guns drawn.

Swiss investigators today pointed to signal-jumping as the likely cause of a head-on train collision in the west of the country that killed a driver and injured 26 other people.

American singer Tina Turner married her companion of 27 years, German music producer Erwin Bach, on the banks of Switzerland's Lake Zurich.

The long arm of American justice had already been shaking up Switzerland, a country with a vaunted culture of secrecy. The arrests of several officials of FIFA, soccer's governing body, in a highly coordinated operation during which plainclothes Swiss officers raided a five-star hotel overlooking Lake Zurich, have a firm legal basis in both countri...

The Baur au Lac, which overlooks Lake Zurich, provided an unlikely setting for the apprehension of six global soccer executives who were arrested on corruption charges and now face extradition to the United States. The operation took less than two hours and was strikingly peaceful - no handcuffs, no guns drawn.

Swiss investigators today pointed to signal-jumping as the likely cause of a head-on train collision in the west of the country that killed a driver and injured 26 other people.

American singer Tina Turner married her companion of 27 years, German music producer Erwin Bach, on the banks of Switzerland's Lake Zurich.