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Thousands due at 35th Paléo Festival

This content was published on Jul 19, 2010 Among the headliners at the Paléo Festival 2010 are veteran punk rockers Iggy and the Stooges, 1970s folk rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash and 1980s jazz funk band Jamiroquai, as well as Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini and French crossover artist M. The festival runs over six days and nights and hosts more than 170…

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Alphorn school blows students away

This content was published on Jul 19, 2010 The sound of the alphorn lures aspiring musicians of all skill levels up into the mountains – and lungs like bellows aren’t a requirement.

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Blowin’ in the wind

This content was published on Jul 19, 2010 Forget vuvuzelas – if you really want a loud musical challenge, head to the Swiss Alphorn School in the Bernese Alps.

MUSIC: PRINCE in concert

This content was published on Jul 19, 2010 PRINCE, one of the best live performers in the world, places in Geneva. His seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Academy Award and over 100 million records sold are proof of his musical ingenuity.

Polanski visits Montreux Jazz Festival

This content was published on Jul 18, 2010 Polanski, 76, was detained last September in Zurich – where he was to receive a film festival award – on the basis of a United States request concerning a long-standing sex case. The film director had been under house arrest in his Gstaad chalet until it was announced on July 12 that the Swiss had…

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Polanski visits Montreux Jazz Festival

This content was published on Jul 18, 2010 Polanski, 76, was detained last September in Zurich – where he was to receive a film festival award – on the basis of a United States request. He then spent nine months under house arrest in his chalet in Gstaad. The film director watched his wife, actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner, perform on stage at…

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“Courier me over some condoms”

This content was published on Jul 17, 2010 No, this is not a gag, but rather the latest Swiss Aids/HIV awareness initiative. The summer campaign is taking place as Swiss specialists prepare for the biennial International Aids Conference in Vienna, Austria, which opened on Sunday. “We transport anything, anywhere” – Velokurier cycle couriers in Bern are certainly living up to their reputation. From…

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Calmy-Rey hails OSCE Kyrgyzstan meeting

This content was published on Jul 17, 2010 The summit brought together representatives from 56 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) countries and comes after ethnic violence rocked the central Asian nation at the end of June. The conference was held in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan. “It’s an important signal because it focuses more attention on this part of…

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Swiss gives red card to video technology

This content was published on Jul 17, 2010 Meier, who officiated at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, tells swissinfo.ch why ball chip technology would be a better option. The 51-year-old, who retired from refereeing in 2004, also explains what needs to be done to improve the quality of refereeing at international tournaments. swissinfo.ch: What was your general impression of the 2010 World…

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Rudeness, green lamb and dripping water

This content was published on Jul 16, 2010 Nina-Vanessa Heinemann works for Swiss-based holiday review portal Holidaycheck, the largest of its kind in the German-speaking world. She also appears as an expert on television. July sees the beginning of the holiday season with many Swiss heading to Italy, Germany or France. Other popular destinations include Turkey or Egypt. In her work, Heinemann, a…

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