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Transport Museum opens anniversary car theatre

This content was published on Jun 27, 2009 A two-storey Road Transport Hall with a display store, an interactive car theatre and theme islands opened to the general public on Saturday. Some 80 different vehicles, including motorcycles, bicycles as well as coaches dating back to 1860 are put on show. Organisers said the car theatre aimed to give visitors an idea of the…

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Merz remembers 1989 fall of Iron Curtain

This content was published on Jun 27, 2009 Merz was speaking in Budapest on Saturday where he attended the 20th anniversary ceremony of the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain. He was among several European heads of state and senior officials who participated in a commemorative session at the Hungarian parliament. Merz said the past events proved what human will can accomplish by…

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Virgin Galactic’s mission

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009 Banker Peter von May is planning to become the first ever Swiss space tourist onboard Richard Branson’s pioneering Virgin Galactic space shuttle. The flight, the first commercial venture of its kind, will climb up to a height of 110 kilometres above the globe, allowing the passengers to feel weightlessness and catch an exceptional view of…

Handorgelduo Rickenbacher-Heinzer: Gruess us Illgau.

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009

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Senate committee supports anti-pirate force

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009 Didier Burkhalter, a senator from the centre-right Radical Party, said the committee considered participation in the European Union Atalanta mission justified because Switzerland was directly affected. Twenty per cent of world trade is affected by the pirate attacks, he pointed out. The area is particularly important for Europe’s oil supplies. Opponents of the move believe…

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Countries mull progress on Nazi looted art

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009 Thousands of works were plundered from Jewish families in the 1930s-40s and some have made their way to Switzerland. But finding the items and coming to an agreement over their fate is not always easy. The five-day Holocaust Era Assets Conference in the capital, Prague, gathers together officials, non-governmental organisations and Jewish groups to discuss…

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Excessive gambling takes a toll

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009 The study used figures from the 2007 Swiss health survey, which found that 1.5 per cent of respondents could be regarded as problematic gamblers, and 0.5 per cent as pathological. The commission said the number appeared to be have remained more or less constant over the years. About 20 per cent of excessive gamblers play…

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Calvin takes centre stage in Geneva

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009 swissinfo.ch took a behind-the-scenes look at the new play “Geneva in flames”, which runs from July 1-26, and which aims to give a more differentiated view of the man behind the legend. “The play describes the stormy, passionate, painful, difficult relationship between the main character, Calvin, and his rival, the city of Geneva. Geneva is…

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Michael Jackson

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009

Swiss fans mourn “irreplaceable” Jackson

This content was published on Jun 26, 2009 Jackson died in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon at the age of 50 after collapsing and being admitted to hospital. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday. Police said they were investigating the singer’s death, a standard procedure in high-profile cases. In Switzerland, fans and artists alike had already made up their minds about his legacy…

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