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Banking with a difference

This content was published on Nov 24, 2014 Cultural projects might struggle to get loans from normal banks if high turnover is not guaranteed. Some are turning to the Alternative Bank Switzerland, where the emphasis is on principles rather than profits. (SRF/swissinfo,ch

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Bern museum accepts controversial art hoard

This content was published on Nov 24, 2014 The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern has said it will accept contentious works of art, stashed away until recently by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of one of Hitler’s art dealers. Gurlitt died in May and in his will named the museum sole heir to his collection. Germany will continue to carry out provenance research…

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‘Roger and Stan, my love to you is absolutely ridiculous’

This content was published on Nov 23, 2014 Roger Federer produced a vintage performance in front of the largest tennis crowd ever to win Switzerland’s first Davis Cup.

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Investigation dropped against former SNB head

This content was published on Nov 23, 2014 The case had been brought by Christoph Blocher, the billionaire figurehead of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, who had said Hildebrand had told the media of Blocher’s role in the affair. Hildebrand resigned in January 2012 after emails cast doubt on his claims not to have known about a foreign exchange trades made by his…

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A slow build-up of pressure is the best way to change FIFA

This content was published on Nov 23, 2014 Like many corrupt regimes, FIFA was once the west’s creature. Western Europeans founded it in Paris in 1904 and then ran it until 1974, when the Brazilian João Havelange ousted England’s Stanley Rous as president. But only on December 2 2010 did western countries grasp that they had become second-class citizens of FIFA. That day…

The famous church in Wasen – thanks to the spiral tunnels, travellers get to see it several times.

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What next for the Gotthard’s historic railway?

This content was published on Nov 23, 2014 The old Gotthard Railway line is a major European rail traffic artery. But that will change in 2016 with the opening of the new Gotthard Base Tunnel. The long-term future of this feat of Alpine engineering is uncertain and plans for a UNESCO bid have been derailed for now.

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The secret world of monasteries, revealed

This content was published on Nov 22, 2014 From Geneva photographer Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno comes “Monasteries,” a voyage into the hidden world of contemplative monks who shut themselves away for self-improvement.

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‘This is not how Germans like to see themselves’

This content was published on Nov 21, 2014 Catherine Hickley explains what effect the Gurlitt affair has had on a Germany still coming to terms with its Nazi past.

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First Ebola patient in Switzerland for treatment

This content was published on Nov 21, 2014 A Cuban doctor infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa has arrived in Geneva for treatment.

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‘Roger and Stan, my love to you is absolutely ridiculous’

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