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Novartis sex discrimination trial begins

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 A lawyer for the plaintiffs on Thursday acknowledged to a jury at a federal court in Manhattan the Swiss company has extensive written materials warning against discrimination but accused it of “saying one thing on paper but another thing in real life”. Attorney Katherine Kimpel said women hired since 2002 at Novartis’s United States arm…

Fossil find could be “missing link” to humans

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 A team of researchers from Zurich University helped to uncover the skeletons in South Africa, that are said to be between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old. The find could re-write the history of human development. At least five skeletons – two of them nearly perfectly formed – have so far been excavated from caves,…

Credit Suisse stung by British finance regulator

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 The Swiss bank was ordered to pay £1.75 million (SFr2.86 million) as the British authorities step up efforts to clamp down on market abuse. A privately-held market trader, Getco and an agency broker, Nomura, were also found to have committed multiple breaches, according to the FSA. It added that all three firms had ignored repeated…

T-shirt turns tough after transformation

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 But researchers from Switzerland, the United States and China have discovered that cotton can be transformed into a material that is extremely tough as well as flexible. What scientists in South Carolina have done is to combine the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third-hardest material on earth. The result is a…

Jobless rate drops with arrival of Spring

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 It is the biggest March decrease in three years, said Seco’s labour division head Serge Gaillard. Just over 166,000 people were registered as unemployed. Most of them are foreigners, a Seco statement said on Thursday. The jobless rate among younger people dropped significantly to 4.8 per cent last month compared with February. Gaillard warned against…

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Solar Impulse completes first flight

This content was published on Apr 7, 2010 The Solar Impulse plane landed after one-and-a-half hours in the air near its base, a military airfield at Payerne in western Switzerland. Piccard, who in 1999 co-piloted the first non-stop round-the-globe balloon flight, said the aim of the test flight was to see if the plane, with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 and the…

Solar Impulse completes first flight

This content was published on Apr 7, 2010 The Solar Impulse plane landed after 1.5 hours in the air near its base, a military airfield at Payerne in western Switzerland. Piccard said the aim of the two-hour test flight was to examine if the plane with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 and the weight of a small car could keep a straight…

Easter is over… but try telling the hens

This content was published on Apr 7, 2010 With Easter over, the appetite for eggs has returned to normal and demand has dwindled – resulting in a surplus. The problem is to some extent solved with the slaughtering of more hens now than is normal. The government has also lent a hand by contributing SFr2 million ($1.87 million) to help bring the market…

Oil and grain keep flowing through Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 6, 2010 Last year, trading in commodities such as oil, grain and electricity contributed around two per cent of the total Swiss economic output – about the same as tourism. But the secretive sector is undergoing changes. Switzerland has long been a global centre in the commodities trading world thanks to its central European location, strong banking…

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