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High wire artist starts seven-day challenge

This content was published on Aug 20, 2011 Starting in Zugspitze cable car station in Germany on Saturday afternoon he walked a 995-metre-long cable car line unaided, climbing 348 metres to a height of 2,950 metres above sea level. A spokesman for the artist told swissinfo.ch he did the walk successfully and it would be submitted for entry in the Guinness Book of…

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NGO champions human rights in Libya

This content was published on Aug 20, 2011 The non-governmental organisation’s secretary general, Khaled Saleh, spoke to swissinfo.ch shortly after his return from the rebel-held eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where he also met Swiss aid representatives. Libyans are expecting a lot from Switzerland, especially regarding benefiting from its experience in building democratic institutions and civil society organisations, said Saleh. Opposition fighters, whose…

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Preserving the Old

This content was published on Aug 20, 2011 Cristina Della Pietra took me on a tour of the museum, where she showed me a photo of her grandfather carrying a pack full of hay that towered over his head. Cristina is proud to be a ‘Walser’, which is to say a descendant of those who crossed over from canton Valais during the 13th…

Federer fails to make Cincinnati semis

This content was published on Aug 20, 2011 The Swiss struggled with his groundstrokes during a 6-2, 7-6 (3) loss to the Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych, who has won three of their past four matches. Federer failed to break Berdych’s serve, making 29 unforced errors and hitting three forehands wide during the tiebreaker. “I definitely didn’t feel I was getting a great read…

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“Power” trails add value to rural region

This content was published on Aug 20, 2011 The 15 signposted routes criss-cross the eastern region. They take walkers to natural and cultural sites where there is said to be an abundance of positive energy. Throughout the summer, the media – including swissinfo.ch – was given a sneak preview of the trails and the pseudoscience behind the claim by life-force believers that these…

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The Cow Trail

This content was published on Aug 19, 2011 Here were massive steps built up a rocky section of hillside. They looked fit to carry Cesar’s army. Then they dissolved into a cowpath. Surely anything made to such a scale would have a road on each end. It made no sense to me that a huge staircase would exist on its own. I asked…

Innovation is “vital” in tackling African drought

This content was published on Aug 19, 2011 Addressing the opening of an annual conference on cooperation and development, Micheline Calmy-Rey, who also holds the rotating Swiss presidency, said emergency aid for the millions of people affected would not suffice. Switzerland could set an example by coming up with sustainable development solutions in a disaster that would last “years”. Innovative ideas were “vital”,…

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European Heritage Days

This content was published on Aug 19, 2011 Every year, during one weekend in September, the public are invited to visit normally inaccessible historical monuments and cultural assets. This year visitors can go underground to discover tunnels, crypts, fortresses, churches, cellars, archaeological findings and other secret places normally hidden from view.

MUSIC: Lucerne Festival – Night music

This content was published on Aug 19, 2011 The Lucerne Festival in Summer 2011 explores the phenomenon of the night with music by composers who are visionaries and dreamers, mystics and masters of dark sounds. The Romantics considered music to be an art of the night, perfectly suited to the world of dreams, of darkness, of the unconscious.

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Cancellara recovers after bee sting puncture

This content was published on Aug 19, 2011 Cancellara was hospitalised in Switzerland as a result of the sting, he said on his Twitter feed. The Swiss rider posted pictures of himself on Twitter receiving oxygen and with one eye almost closed by swelling. He said it was the second bee sting he had suffered in recent days, which had made it worse. Cancellara…

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