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#DroneFrontier Curious about drones? Here are the basics

From technology and uses to risks and regulations, here’s a crash course (no pun intended) on this rapidly advancing technology.

True Talk Dealing with death on a daily basis

Earning a living through death: working as an undertaker certainly wouldn't suit everyone, but Michael is anything but unhappy with his workday.

Fintech Switzerland

A new wave of digital financial technology (fintech) innovations are springing up in Switzerland that could either transform traditional financial companies - or replace them.

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Many rivers to cross Famed bridge-builder Christian Menn dies

Self-sufficiency Would the Swiss starve if all imports were blocked?

Watery end? Open-air public pools face chilling dilemma

Film award Wim Wenders to receive Zurich Film Festival tribute

$5 million fine Swiss bank settles US tax evasion probe

Bloomberg business

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PART 2: Journey to Switzerland From Serbia to the Swiss Alps: a bear's adventure

By Julie Hunt

Serbia’s last circus bear recently left his temporary home for the biggest adventure of his life: the 1400 km trip to Switzerland.

UPB Swiss wealth manager looks at London as Brexit looms

By Owen Walker, Financial Times

UBP, the Private bank, is about to buy a UK investment boutique - a sign of how Swiss wealth managers intend to increase their London business.

Education Social status plays ‘no role’ in career choice

By Isobel Leybold-Johnson

Swiss vocational training has a good reputation internationally, but fears have been raised that it is losing ground at home.

Inside Geneva Can the City of Peace resolve trade wars?

By Imogen Foulkes in Geneva

In the grand corridors of the World Trade Organisation, there is a new sense of urgency.

Opinion The making of International Geneva

By Sandrine Kott and Grégoire Carasso

2019 will mark 100 years since the creation of the League of Nations, precursor of the United Nations.

New Swiss stock exchange (gingerly) mulls cryptocurrencies

By Matthew Allen

The Swiss stock exchange operator SIX Group has not yet decided whether bitcoin will be welcome on its new digital platform.

Trying on identities American by birth, Swiss by imprint

By Jessica Dacey in Joshua Tree

A dog sits on a wooden bed, chewing on a bone. The bed seems outsized but it's one of the few keepsakes Claudia Bucher has from her Swiss father.

Podcast Lover, leader, prisoner and carer: The multiple lives of Ma Anand Sheela

By Anand Chandrasekhar

Once leader of the almost 5,000-strong Rajneesh spiritual commune in Oregon, Sheela Biernstiel now runs homes for the disabled in Switzerland.

Take a look Picture of the week

In this series, swissinfo.ch picture editors choose an image highlighting a news event of the past seven days.

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Ahead of the 2019 elections Recruiting voters to be part of the campaign

By Claude Longchamp

Traditional politics has relied on influencing public opinion largely through the press. The new politics is all about mobilising crowds.

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Part 1: Freed From Serbia to the Swiss Alps: a bear's adventure

By Julie Hunt

After being freed from a cage at a circus, and recovering at a Serbian zoo, Napa the bear is now having a Swiss adventure.

Swiss People's Party Christoph Blocher: ‘The Swiss have to stay out of the EU’

By Ralph Atkins, Financial Times

Christoph Blocher’s hilltop home above Lake Zurich is the best known private residence in Switzerland.

Atrocities Combating the spread of wartime rape

By Frédéric Burnand, Geneva

The Swiss non-governmental organisation Trial International is campaigning to put an end to rape as a weapon of war.

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Opinion Family separation under US immigration law has a long history

By Alexandra Dufresne

The US government’s separation of children and parents at the Mexican border has sparked disbelief around the world.

True Talk "Even deaf people are into music"

"Some deaf people can't talk but it doesn't mean they're stupid".

Risky business A new model for Swiss innovation

By Celia Luterbacher

The World Intellectual Property Organization has again named Switzerland the most innovative country. Where is there room for improvement?

Jaw-dropping Meet a Neanderthal woman from one of Europe’s oldest cave sites

By Bill Harby in Neuchâtel

A jaw with intact teeth - so little can tell us so much about life in a Swiss cave some 70,000 years ago.

Chasing a dollar Glencore: an audacious business model in the dock

By Neil Hume, David Sheppard and Henry Sanderson in London

The world's biggest commodity trader, Swiss-based Glencore, might have to change its risky business model.

SIX digital exchange How a behemoth crypto trading platform could impact Switzerland