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Glencore Xstrata posts loss on asset write-downs

This content was published on Aug 20, 2013 Pro forma profit – which includes Xstrata earnings but excludes one-off charges – also fell 39 per cent to $2 billion, weighed down by lower commodity prices, said Glencore Xstrata in its first-half report on Tuesday. Combined revenue dropped 1.7 per cent to $121.4 billion. Swiss-based Glencore Xstrata, which operates more than 150 mining and…

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The Rhine recovers, but slowly

This content was published on Aug 20, 2013 From the Rhine’s alpine source to the riverbanks of industrial Basel, swissinfo.ch explores the Swiss stretch of the vital European waterway.

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Early poll finds clear majority in army vote

This content was published on Aug 16, 2013 Ahead of the nationwide ballot on September 22, a clear majority of people – 57 per cent – said they would reject an initiative by the Switzerland without an Army group. About one in three respondents came out in favour of the pacifists. (For details see graphic) Political scientist Claude Longchamp of the leading GfS…

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Who’s the King of the Swimmers?

This content was published on Aug 16, 2013 Not only do they swim, but the apes use a kind of breast stroke to do so, rather than the dog paddle favoured by other terrestrial mammals. Normally, apes drown if they get into deep water – which is why zoos use ditches to confine them. But Cooper the chimpanzee and Suryia the orangutan were…

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UBS ready to buy back “bad bank” toxic assets

This content was published on Aug 16, 2013 At the end of 2008, UBS was forced to hand over CHF38.7 billion ($41.5 billion) of its risky securities to the central bank’s Stabilisation Fund (StabFund), set up to prevent UBS’s mortgage related losses spiraling out of control during the financial crisis. The SNB granted UBS a loan of CHF25.8 billion to help finance the…

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Weighing up working in a globalised world

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Stiff competition draws filmmakers to cyberspace

This content was published on Aug 15, 2013 “People think watching a film in the cinema is not necessarily the holy grail anymore, which I think is a little bit sad and a little bit great at the same time,” says Australian filmmaker Justin Olstein as the crowd filters out of the screening of his short film Fun City at the Locarno Film…

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Direct democracy enters new phase of digital era

This content was published on Aug 15, 2013 After more than ten years’ experience of online voting in more than 100 ballots, the cabinet seems confident e-voting is the answer to the expectations of a young electorate. In a report published in June, the government declared that the introduction of e-voting was the logical consequence of developments in society and in the communications…

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Scientists teleport data over electronic circuit

This content was published on Aug 14, 2013 According to an article published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday, the Zurich team managed to teleport information in a so-called “solid-state system” in a device similar to a conventional computer chip. The data was teleported across a distance of six millimetres from one corner of the chip to the opposite side. No physical…

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