New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are among the top five least corrupt nations, according to a new survey released by Transparency International. Canada is in the top ten. Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan are the most corrupt.

Switzerland's privacy commissioner planning to take Google to court over concerns that Google's 'Street View' feature doesn't meet Swiss privacy policy.

The general prosecutor in Tehran has confirmed that three U.S. citizens arrested near Iran's border with Iraq in July have been charged with espionage.

After agreeing to provide authorities in the U.S. with details of 4,450 of its American clients the Swiss bank UBS has now received requests from authorities in the U.K. and Australia for information on its cross-border wealth management services.

Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi has issued a travel ban of Canadians that would not allow the travel documentation offices to give visas to visitors from Canada,

Two distinguished theoretical physicists claim that the Higgs Boson, or 'God particle', may have come from the future to sabotage the 'Big Bang' machine because it is against nature.

French officials have arrested a physicist who works at the facility that houses the world's largest particle collider. He is suspected of having al-Qaeda links.

A French minster who has sprung to the defense of Roman Polanski, the filmmaker who may be extradited to the U.S. from Switzerland because of his sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, is facing calls to resign over his own sexual conduct.

The Swiss government will make a decision this week whether or not they will release filmmaker Roman Polanski from prison.

According to the United Nations human development index, Norway takes the number one spot. The UN human development index makes judgments based on the country's life expectancy, literacy, school enrollment and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.