Difficulties in hiring non-European staff and overcoming perceptions of corporate secrecy weigh on the sports body.
World football’s governing body is reportedly weighing a plan to relocate its Swiss headquarters to somewhere more conducive to hiring non-Europeans and less renowned for corporate secrecy.
FIFA's president Gianni Infantino, a Swiss-Italian lawyer who has run the international organization since 2016 after its longtime Swiss leader Sepp Blatter was ousted amidst corruption investigations, asked for an internal study into the feasibility of FIFA leaving Zürich, the New York Times reported.
By far the largest share of the US$236 billion a year in illegal profits comes from forced commercial sexual exploitation.
Football's governing body will mark the 100th anniversary of the World Cup in Uruguay, where the first was held in 1930.
The U.N. agency's first global guidance urges governments to quickly regulate generative AI in education and research.
It suggests most jobs are only partly exposed to automation, and are more likely to be complemented than substituted.
The humanitarian nightmare and attacks on civilians in Gaza dominated the U.N. Security Council's quarterly open debate.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
A new U.N. report shows how prioritizing debt over services like health care and education plagues the developing world.
