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Bodies recovered from avalanche

This content was published on Jan 5, 2010 A search of the accident site was stopped during Monday’s bad weather but continued on Tuesday, with rescuers finding all three missing people, the Swiss Air Rescue Service said. They were two Swiss aged 38 and 47 and a German aged 37. Four people are already known to have died in the accident in the…

Animal of the year is a bee

This content was published on Jan 5, 2010 Eucera nigrescens, whose German name translates as long-horned bee, is described by Pro Natura as a “furry pollen taxi”. It plays a vital role in pollinating the Ophrys holosericea orchid. The orchid, named in German after the bumble bee, fools the insect by imitating the shape and smell of the female. The male bee comes…

Europe’s highest station pulls in the crowds

This content was published on Jan 5, 2010 The Jungfrau Railways announced on Tuesday that 651,000 people had visited Europe’s highest railway station, the second best result in the company’s history and a 3.7 per cent increase on 2008. A 100,000 drop in Asian tourist numbers was compensated by a marketing campaign and special offers within Switzerland, which attracted more locals to the…

Nestlé swallows slice of North American pizza

This content was published on Jan 5, 2010 The deal secures Nestlé’s solid footing in the US market, the largest pizza market in the world. Kraft Foods is the leader in the frozen pizza category with estimated sales of $2.1 billion in 2009 and has enjoyed double-digit growth in the US and Canada over the past four years. It follows Monday’s announcement that…

Tracking scammers, hackers and phishers

This content was published on Jan 4, 2010 Swiss government officials are confronted every day with the reality of illegal Web use, including hardcore pornography, racism, the spread of harmful computer viruses and the misuse of personal data. In October hackers targeted the foreign ministry. More recently there have been reports of attacks on Swiss websites featuring postings by people defending Islam, following…

$24 billion lawsuit filed against Credit Suisse

This content was published on Jan 4, 2010 The lawsuit filed in a federal court in Boise, Idaho, seeks $24 billion (SFr24.7 billion) of damages against Credit Suisse and commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, and class-action status for more than 3,000 investors who bought land or homes. Credit Suisse spokesman Duncan King said: “We believe the suit to be without merit…

Alone – but not alone

This content was published on Jan 4, 2010

Novartis moves in closer on US eye-care group

This content was published on Jan 4, 2010 The Basel-based group said it would complete purchase of food and drinks company Nestlé’s 52 per cent stake and then intended to buy the remaining 23 per cent stake from minority shareholders. The group said in a statement on Monday that the entire cost of purchasing Nestlé’s 77 per cent stake in Alcon shares would…

Bringing ET out of the realm of sci-fi

This content was published on Jan 3, 2010 Stéphane Udry, a professor in the astronomy department of Geneva University, tells swissinfo.ch why he thinks we are not alone – and why he believes any extraterrestrials out there are benevolent. An avid reader of science fiction, Udry was attracted to astrophysics because it is not purely theoretical. His PhD in Geneva was on the…

Swiss text in the New Year

This content was published on Jan 1, 2010 Swisscom reported 25.7 million text and multimedia messages sent on Thursday, a three per cent increase compared with the operator’s service on the same day in 2008. Orange counted around 14.8 million messages – half a million more text messages than in the previous year. Another 14.7 million messages were sent on the other major…

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