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Swiss skills win medals galore in London

This content was published on Oct 10, 2011 Sunday night’s glittering closing ceremony at London’s O2 Arena was a blaze of colour, noise and energy as 950 young competitors and thousands of supporters and delegations from all over the world watched the best teams receive their rewards. Only the heavily-industrialised nations, Korea and Japan, could outshine Switzerland’s impressive line-up of six gold, five…

Swiss seek improved trade with Brazil and Chile

This content was published on Oct 10, 2011 After visits to India and Russia in the first half of 2011, he is off to Brazil and Chile this week accompanied by a large business delegation. One of the main aims of the visit from October 12-18 is to stimulate negotiations for a free trade agreement with Mercosur, the trade block of South American…

Swiss regulator prepares for euro debt crisis

This content was published on Oct 9, 2011 In an interview with the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper, Patrick Raaflaub said the UBS and Credit Suisse had above average amount of capital in an international comparison, but it was not clear how quickly this capital could be mobilised to soften the shock of a new financial crisis. He described the situation at the global…

Switzerland’s champion plasterer, 2011

This content was published on Oct 8, 2011 Swiss champion plasterer is a woman

Basel commuter line operating again after crash

This content was published on Oct 7, 2011 The incident occurred around 6pm on Thursday near Olten station in northern Switzerland when two trains arriving and leaving within one minute of each other collided sideways. The force of the collision caused the derailment of two wagons and the engine on one of the trains. One of the two drivers was airlifted to hospital…

Pictures from an execution

This content was published on Oct 7, 2011

Old age catches up with the Zytglogge

This content was published on Oct 7, 2011 The Zytglogge has tolled every hour since its bell was cast and mounted in the clocktower in 1405 – until recently that is. City of Bern authorities said in a statement on Friday that the clock has recently sometimes had problems in striking the quarter hour, and whenever this happened, it caused the hour to…

Scientists discuss Next Big Thing in physics

This content was published on Oct 6, 2011 Some 150 international experts, government officials and directors of major research centres gathered at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the particle-physics laboratory which houses the smasher, for a four-day seminar that ended on Thursday. According to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), which organised the event, the science of particle physics “has…

EXECUTION HUNTSVILLE BIASIO – ORIGINAL

This content was published on Oct 6, 2011

Media “focus on entertainment over news”

This content was published on Oct 6, 2011 It found that disasters, football and scandals dominated reporting in 2010 – ahead of the Swiss diplomatic spat with Libya, cabinet elections and the UBS tax crisis. The report into media quality in Switzerland is the second of its kind, with last year’s inaugural study causing a furore after it suggested that the popularity of…

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