Switzerland

Switzerland

Swiss village votes in favour of paying new residents to live there

Albinen estimates that in the next five years, five to 10 families will benefit from the scheme

30/11/2017

Living

Inside the Audemars Piguet workshop

30/11/2017

Switzerland

The Swiss village that will pay you 60,000 euros to live there

Albinen may offer prospective residents a bounty if they settle

23/11/2017

Sport

Carter appeals Olympic disqualification

The Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter who was retroactively found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has attended his appeal hearing

15/11/2017

Living

Chopard wins the 'Aiguille d'Or' Grand Prix of watchmaking

09/11/2017

Business Series

Follow live, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) 2017

The Watchmaking World’s "Oscars ceremony" will be announced on November 8th at the Théâtre du Léman in Geneva.

08/11/2017

Switzerland

The Great Escape: Seven-year-old runaway boards plane at Geneva airport before being spotted by police

The seven-year-old girl was able to avoid all security checks from the train to the plane.

02/11/2017

Cult

Hidden treasures of Nazi art dealer go on display

An art stash hoarded by the son of a Nazi art collector has finally gone on public display.

02/11/2017

Switzerland

No insults on syllabus as Swiss school starts Klingon classes

Fans have developed the fictional 'Star Trek' language since the 1960s into a coherent syntax-based means of communication between Klingon-speakers.

30/10/2017

Sport

PSG boss questioned over bribery claims by Swiss prosecutors

Paris Saint Germain chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi was interrogated for hours by Swiss prosectors investigating the sale of World Cup media rights

25/10/2017

Switzerland

Public invited to show off the power of their minds

An experiment in Lausanne, Switzerland, is inviting the public to hook themsleves up to a brain interface and try and move machinery with the power of thought alone.

24/10/2017

Eco-Innovation

Android in the Alps

Exploring Austria with the new Porsche Design Huawei 10 Mate

23/10/2017

Switzerland

Teenager arrested in Swiss axe attack

The attack, believed to have been carried out by a 17-year-old Latvian national, left several wounded in the small town of Flums, in north-eastern Switzerland

23/10/2017

World

"Nuclear weapons don't make us safe" - ICAN

Beatrice Fihn from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons calls on all nuclear states to disarm.

18/10/2017

Switzerland

Azerbaijan and Armenia meet over disputed territory

The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have met in Geneva for the first time since June 2016 amid tension over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh

16/10/2017

Switzerland

More than a million francs worth of gold lost in Swiss sewers every year

More than a million Swiss francs worth of gold is flushed down every year found a new study.

13/10/2017

Switzerland

Bad news for bees

Three-quarters of the honey produced around the world contains nerve agent pesticides that can harm bees and pose a potential health hazard to humans.

06/10/2017

Switzerland

Global warming 'threatens Swiss Alps'

Swiss Alps under pressure as scientists stress negative effects of global warming.

05/10/2017

Cinema

Boston Marathon attack movie 'Stronger' warmly received

Boston Marathon attack movie 'Stronger' warmly received by critics

04/10/2017

Cinema

Zurich Film Festival honours Glenn Close

Famous faces walk the red carpet in Zurich.

03/10/2017

Eco-Innovation

How a bakery came to love sailing

A real passion for human adventure and extreme sports drove the Cornu family to believe in Alan Roura, the youngest skipper to ever enrol in the Vendée Globe race – or the ‘Everest of the sea’ as this

27/09/2017

Switzerland

Flush with cash: toilets in Switzerland found stuffed with €500 notes

Over €83,000 in high-denomination banknotes was found stuffed in toilets in Geneva’s financial district

19/09/2017

Switzerland

Non-stop rain over 72 hours floods eastern Switzerland

Eastern Switzerland is suffering flooding after 72 hours of non-stop rain.

03/09/2017

Sport

FIFA World Cup Trophy goes on tour

29/08/2017

Switzerland

Swiss suspend search for missing hikers amid fresh landslide fears

Swiss police are expecting more landslides in the remote valley where eight people went missing

26/08/2017

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Second mudslide hits devastated Bondo in Swiss Alps

The search continues for eight hikers, missing presumed dead, as a second mudslide hits the village of Bondo in the Swiss Alps.

26/08/2017