Discover what the World Economic Forum (WEF) does, its annual Davos meeting, and its significant impact on global economic, social, and environmental issues.

About 2,000 anti-capitalist and anti-globalization protesters took to the streets in Swiss cities on Tuesday to demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s planned trip to the World Economic Forum ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - World leaders meeting in Davos this week are likely to agree that inequality is a problem but unlikely to do anything about it, the head of the International Labour Organization ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Swiss prosecutors on Friday confirmed that Israeli President Isaac Herzog had been the subject of criminal complaints during his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, as Israel ...

GENEVA-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will headline the annual elite gathering in Davos, Switzerland this month, underscoring the world's focus on the European debt crisis that for over two years ...

GENEVA -- U.S. President-elect 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. Børge ...

PHOTO: The world's mover and shakers are headed to Davos this week for the World Economic Forum. (Wiki Images) Davos has become to finance what Cannes is to film. This week (Jan. 21-25) the World ...

GENEVAGENEVA — Switzerland’s main Jewish organization on Monday denounced an antisemitic sign put up at a local ski shop near Davos, barring Jews from renting equipment from the store. Regional police ...

GENEVAGENEVA — The Swiss town of Davos will host 52 heads of state and government and nearly 600 CEOs as the World Economic Forum hosts its annual meeting in the Alps next week, organizers said ...

Three skiers from Russia and six from Belarus — including former Olympic and world champions — were approved Wednesday to ...

GENEVA, Jan. 31 -- Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday at bottle-throwing demonstrators in Geneva who protested the annual World Economic Forum meeting in the Swiss Alps. Police ...