Swiss Identity

Drug-busting with customs officers at Zurich airport

a customs officer looking through luggage

This content was published on Apr 12, 2024 Gino the sniffer dog helps in the search for cocaine smuggled into Switzerland via Zurich airport.

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Night trains from Switzerland face challenging revival

This content was published on Apr 11, 2024 Night trains are regaining popularity, but the Basel-Amsterdam route reveals the railway's struggle to meet growing demand.

Students sit at wooden desks in a lecture theatre

Education

Switzerland has highest concentration of top degree programmes

This content was published on Apr 11, 2024 Switzerland has the highest concentration of elite university programmes in the world, according to an annual ranking by Quacquarelli Symonds.

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Competing in the Olympics without a country

This content was published on Apr 11, 2024 Two refugee athletes in Switzerland are hoping to compete in the Paris Olympics under the Refugee Olympic Team.

Gretta Fenner, the director of the Basel Institute on Governance.

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Swiss anti-corruption campaigner dies in car accident

This content was published on Apr 10, 2024 Gretta Fenner, campaigner against international corruption died in a car accident in Nairobi, Kenya last Sunday.

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Switzerland’s population hits record high: surprising growth regions

This content was published on Apr 10, 2024 Almost 9 million people were living in Switzerland at the end of 2023. Places away from the centres are experiencing the greatest growth.

A view across Hoengg in Zurich including Hardbruecke, the Prime Tower and the Uetliberg, at nightfall. Roofs and the mountain are covered in snow.

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Switzerland significantly exceeded winter gas savings target

This content was published on Apr 9, 2024 The target was to reduce gas consumption by 15%, however, according to provisional government figures, it was 23% less.

An aerial view shows Zurich’s Paradeplatz with the lights on and road lit up at dusk

Demographics

Zurich retains first place in ‘Smart City’ index

This content was published on Apr 9, 2024 For the fifth time in a row, the city of Zurich has taken first place in the International Institute for Management Development’s (IMD) ‘Smart City’ index.

Culture

Libby Heaney’s quantum soup served in Basel

This content was published on Apr 6, 2024 Quantum Soup is the first solo exhibition of visual artist and quantum physicist Libby Heaney in Switzerland.

The misty waters of Lake Maggiore backgrounded by mountains. A bird flies over the water and at the centre of the image is the tree-covered Brissago island

History

Ship found at bottom of Lake Maggiore after nearly 100 years

This content was published on Apr 4, 2024 By chance, wreck hunters have found the remains of a passenger ship that sank almost a hundred years ago off Brissago in canton Ticino.

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