The World Economic Forum has held a meeting every year since it was founded in 1971. But why is Davos, as it is commonly known, so significant? View on euronews ...

The world’s most pressing problems are being solved by the people least affected by them. In conference rooms from Davos to ...

Downfall in Davos: Klaus Schwab fights for legacy after WEF whistleblower claims The ousted head of the World Economic Forum is battling allegations of impropriety and a second probe into his ...

GENEVA — U.S. President Donald Trump will take part virtually in the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos just days after his inauguration, the forum president said Tuesday.

Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, best known for hosting an annual meeting of political, business and other elites in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos, is retiring as chairman ...

The Geneva-based WEF made the announcement on Monday after revealing earlier this month that the 87-year-old Schwab, who for decades has been the face of the Davos get-together, would be stepping ...

The public prosecutor in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The WEF declined to comment on Schwab’s legal action, saying it was “a matter apparently directed ...

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide submerged a vacated village in the southwest.

GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Economic Forum said on Monday that its founder Klaus Schwab has stepped down from the board. This turns a page in the history of the organization that hosts the ...

A day before the World Economic Forum (WEF) was scheduled to start in Davos, the highest town in Europe has turned into a fortress with the deployment of 5,000 Swiss army personnel.