Cluster: Swiss Identity

Federer blown away in Monte Carlo

This content was published on Apr 15, 2011 The 16-time grand slam champion wasted seven breakpoints in windy conditions. Melzer, who broke once in each set, sealed victory when Federer chopped a weak forehand into the net. The Austrian next takes on David Ferrer of Spain in the semifials. “I don’t think I played terrible. I thought it was okay,” Federer said. “Obviously,…

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Classical music is seeking ways to win younger audiences

This content was published on Apr 15, 2011

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Search for missing twins returns to Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 15, 2011 Some 140 people and 11 sniffer dogs took part in the search for the missing six-year-old girls who disappeared while on an access visit with their father on January 30. There were possible sightings of the girls in France the days following their disappearance and on board a ferry to Corsica but the search is…

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Exhibition: Eau & Toilette – Washing, Dressing, Smelling

This content was published on Apr 14, 2011 A special exhibition at the most beautiful castle on Lake Constance focuses on body care and personal hygiene from the end of the Renaissance to the early 20th century and permits a rare glimpse at bathing culture, beauty, hygiene and fashion.

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GASTRONOMY: 1st Swiss Sausage Festival

This content was published on Apr 14, 2011 A fun exhibition for all the family withsausage tasting, theatre, artworks, exciting contests and a host of other events. Bratwurst will be served at five different locations in Lucerne: in the Museum of History Lucerne, in Restaurant 1871, in Café-Bar LOKAL, in the Doggwiler butcher shop and at the LUGA fair.

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A “Swindian” among the Sioux

This content was published on Apr 14, 2011 There in addition to raising a family, she works at a school where the Sioux language and culture is passed on to young members of the Oglala Lakota tribe. Born in Brazil, Stadnick always felt drawn to the northern part of the American continent. “My interest was not sparked by Western movies, no, it was…

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Fewer air rescue missions carried out in 2010

This content was published on Apr 14, 2011 Rega said rescue missions resulting from winter sports activities continued to rise last year, with avalanches contributing to the causes of such rescues. The organisation registered 83,000 new donors in 2010, a 3.8 per cent increase overall. In French-speaking Switzerland, new registered donors rose by 6.8 per cent.

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Website targets children with alcoholic parent

This content was published on Apr 14, 2011 Children with an alcoholic parent are six times more likely to develop an addition themselves later in life, Addiction Info told a news conference in Bern on Thursday. Some tens of thousands of children in Switzerland grow up with an alcoholic parent and most suffer from feelings of guilt and lack of security because the…

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Swiss named 2014 Olympics sports director

This content was published on Apr 13, 2011 Switzerland’s ice hockey league says Augsburger is leaving in August after two seasons as its chief executive, and will start his Olympic duties in Russia in September. Augsburger said in a statement that it was “a great honour” for the Sochi organising committee to have shown such confidence in him. “As a long-time official in…

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NGOs highlight plight of illegal immigrants

This content was published on Apr 13, 2011 The alliance described Switzerland’s existing immigration and asylum policies as hypocritical, contradictory and absurd. “The immigrants are used in the labour force but they are denied basic rights,” a statement said. Some improvements for illegal immigrants have been achieved over the past decade, but the fundamental problems remain, according to the campaigners. The alliance, formed to…

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