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World record delayed by ropy weather

This content was published on Aug 27, 2011 Nock, 46, was already 400 metres across the lake in canton Bern when he decided the wind speeds were too high. A second attempt is scheduled for Sunday morning. He is trying to finish a week-long challenge to break seven high altitude records in as many days. Starting in Zugspitze cable car station in…

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Justice minister pushes for faster asylum system

This content was published on Aug 27, 2011 In an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger and Bund newspapers on Saturday, Sommaruga, herself a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, spoke of reforms lasting many years. “Our asylum process today takes on average 1,400 days – that is much too long. A report I commissioned demonstrated that starkly,” she said. This long waiting time meant…

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ICRC surgical team arrives in Tripoli

This content was published on Aug 26, 2011 The four-strong delegation was able to evacuate 17 people left without care in a hospital in the south of the city. ICRC spokesman Steven Anderson told the Swiss news agency that the team had arrived with a lorry full of medical supplies. A second team is due to come from Tunisia at the weekend. The…

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Eduard Brunner: Music for Solo Clarinet

This content was published on Aug 26, 2011 Fantasie Eduard Brunner, clarinet

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Simplon Pass

This content was published on Aug 26, 2011 The peaks were buried in clouds, but I can’t use that as an excuse for avoiding the exact border. I’d already decided that learning about this pass would be vastly more interesting than scrambling over another glaciated peak. Plenty of huge mountains coming up in the next two weeks. So today I alternated between hiking…

Sion defeat Celtic in Europa League playoff

This content was published on Aug 26, 2011 Sion had already held the Scottish side to a scoreless draw last week in the away leg. The two other Swiss teams playing on Thursday were less fortunate. Thun, the current leaders of the Swiss Super League, were eliminated by English side Stoke City 5-1 on aggregate, losing the return game 4-1. Bern’s Young Boys…

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“Western” diseases spread to developing world

This content was published on Aug 26, 2011 Delegates at the Swiss Public Health Conference 2011 at Basel University have been hearing how environmental and lifestyle factors are big contributors to the problem – as is increasing urbanisation. The two-day meeting, entitled “Chronic Diseases – A Major Challenge” and gathering Swiss and international specialists in the field, has been considering the impact of…

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Magnolia tree offers help for bone disease

This content was published on Aug 25, 2011 The team led by Bern University’s Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine found that molecules extracted from the magnolia grandiflora tree directly blocked harmful bone degrading cells that naturally occur in the body. It is the first time that a plant molecule has been identified that can inhibit the cells. The findings were published in…

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Bin Hammam appeals against Fifa ban

This content was published on Aug 25, 2011 Explaining the appeal, bin Hammam wrote on his blog on Thursday that his suspension “was a political decision and an absolute abuse of power to deprive me of my right to contest for the Fifa presidency”. He said he did not expect the Fifa Appeals Committee to overturn his ban but had to go through…

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Inexperienced climbers overstep their abilities on the rock face

This content was published on Aug 25, 2011

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