ZURICH

The tragic crash of Airbus A320 in mountainous terrain in southeastern France cost the lives of 150 people including 16 students and two infants.
Swedish football team Dalkurd FF from Borlaenge, in central Sweden, was booked to fly home to Sweden on the budget carrier after a trip to Catalonia.
However, their lucky stars made them change their traveling arrangements.

The 2022 World Cup final in Qatar will be played on December 18, Qatar's National Day.

The decision was ratified at a meeting of Fifa's executive committee in Zurich on Thursday, according to reports of the BBC News.

The 2022 edition of the tournament will be the first ever winter World Cup.

PM "seeking alternatives to Russian gas, not to EU"

ZURICH -- Aleksandar Vucic has told a Swiss newspaper that "Serbia is seeking an alternative to Russian gas, not to EU (membership) as its strategic choice."

Two trains slammed into each other near the Swiss city of Zurich early Friday, tipping over carriages and injuring at least five people, police said.
      
A conductor was in a serious condition after the crash, which saw ambulances, fire and rescue services rush to the scene as a rescue helicopter hovered above.
      

Swiss police announced that two trains have crashed in the town of Rafz early on Friday morning.

The town is located 30 kilometers north of Zurich.

Several of the carriages have been tipped on their sides, but neither of the two locomotives has been overturned.

Swiss police arrested a man in Zurich following a shooting on Thursday morning, the New Zuercher Zeitung reported.

The arrested person was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.

The reasons for the shooting that occurred during a large-scale police operation in the city were not immediately known.

By Roxana Zega

US stock-index futures rose, with the Standard & Poor?s 500 Index 3 points away from a record, as German growth data signaled a strengthening in Europe?s recovery and optimism increased about Greek debt talks.

ZURICH - The Serbian men's national football team has moved down one spot in the latest FIFA world rankings and now takes the 39th position.

Serbia now has 713 points, which places it above Poland (709), Nigeria (664) and Sweden (654), and bellow Cape Verde (756), Island (743) and Scotland (748).

Romania's women's tennis team will compete with Canada's team on April 18 - 19, away, in the playoff for the Fed Cup World Cup, according to the draw carried out in London, on Tuesday.

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Qatari sports executives, in a bid to refute calls for depriving Qatar of its 2022 World Cup hosting rights, have asked their human rights and trade union critics, as well as world football body FIFA, to give them more time to address criticism of the Gulf state's kafala or sponsorship system that puts employees at the mercy of their employers.