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Federer drops to world number three

This content was published on Jul 5, 2010 Rafael Nadal extended his grip on the men’s tour following his win at Wimbledon on Sunday, while Novak Djokovic, who lost in the semifinals, leapfrogged the Swiss. Nadal has 10,745 points, Djokovic 6,905 and Federer 6,885. Andy Murray remains in fourth, back on 5,155. On Sunday Nadal won his second Wimbledon trophy, his eighth grand…

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Nadal beats Berdych in Wimbledon final

This content was published on Jul 4, 2010 The top-ranked Spaniard beat the 12th seeded Czech 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 on Sunday to reinforce his current status as the number one player in the game. Nadal broke four times and never lost serve in 15 service games. It’s the second time he has won the French Open and Wimbledon back-to-back. He is now 5-0…

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Deportation flights to resume to Africa

This content was published on Jul 4, 2010 However, the presence of extra medical supervision on board has generated a controversy. “Transported like packages,” is how human rights organisations describe deportations of people who have had applications for asylum turned down and who do not want to return home voluntarily. On these flights, men – women are never involved – are bound in…

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Cancellara wins Tour de France prologue

This content was published on Jul 4, 2010 Lance Armstrong came home 22 seconds behind Cancellara in fourth place. Second place was taken by Tony Martin and third by David Millar. The flat and straight profile of the 8.9km route was well suited to the master time trialler Cancellara, the world and Olympic champion. Cancellara, who rides for the Saxo Bank team, had…

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Obama’s roots traced to Swiss villager

This content was published on Jul 3, 2010 After three months of combing through town records, a Swiss archivist has traced Obama’s family tree to a villager from western Switzerland. While the ancestor in question – Hans Gutknecht – was already confirmed by archivists to have lived in the French Alsace village of Bischwiller in 1720, experts suspected he might have originated from…

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Avenches Arena stages Lucia di Lammermoor.

This content was published on Jul 3, 2010

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The healing begins

This content was published on Jul 3, 2010 Today I spent much of the day at the hotel in Sion, very close to the hospital I was transported to yesterday by helicopter direct from the mountains (the fastest and easiest descent ever!). My friend Cam went out early this morning and discovered that I was in every newspaper on the newsstands. Apparently there…

Adventurer Harlin feels “very lucky”

This content was published on Jul 2, 2010 The 54-year-old American was in good spirits on Friday after leaving hospital in Sion, especially considering he had fallen off a mountain the day before while climbing on the Swiss side of Aiguilles Rouges du Dolent in canton Valais. Harlin had been attempting to trace the entire Swiss border under his own power in just…

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The birth of a railway

This content was published on Jul 2, 2010 The track was built in 1906-1910 by thousands of Italian workers, sometimes under challenging alpine winter conditions. These photographs, some of which have not been published before, come from the private collections of Luigi Gisep and Olinto Tognina and were digitalised by the Val Poschiavo History Society.

Animal lawyer ‘accidentally’ sacked

This content was published on Jul 2, 2010 Zurich’s animal welfare attorney will be out of a job, following a decision by politicians who hadn’t read the small print.

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