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FC Zurich crash out of Uefa Cup

This content was published on Feb 21, 2008 However the Swiss team lost 3-1 on aggregate and failed to qualify for the last 16 on Thursday. Observers say Hamburg had slightly better opportunities to score in the first half and its solid defence blocked most attacks by Zurich. A week ago the German side won the first match in Zurich 3-1.

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Ministry to lay out billions for motorways

This content was published on Feb 21, 2008 The transport ministry said it had budgeted SFr1.2 billion for maintenance and expansion of existing stretches, and that it had set aside SFr965 million for new initiatives. The announcement follows funding approval by parliament last December. In total, there are 1,763 kilometres of motorway in Switzerland. The largest beneficiaries will be the region around the…

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Athlete starts two-year ban for doping

This content was published on Feb 21, 2008 The suspension, effective from January 31, 2008, was announced on Thursday by the Swiss Olympic Association. Traces of the drug were found in Mirdita after he won the silver medal in the 80kg-and-under category in the Swiss championships in November. He stopped competing at the end of last year. Mirdita was fined a maximum of…

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Population inflation reaches 15-year high

This content was published on Feb 21, 2008 The number of long-term residents in Switzerland rose last year by 1.1 per cent, or 82,700, with a total population of 7,591,400 by the end of December, according to provisional figures published on Thursday by the Federal Statistics Office. The figure includes Swiss and foreign nationals, but excludes 61,000 people with a limited residence permit…

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Bliss: Superstern

This content was published on Feb 21, 2008

Leuthard proposes solution to plane dispute

This content was published on Feb 20, 2008 The plane, built by Pilatus at Stans in central Switzerland, has caused controversy in recent weeks after reports that the government of Chad had modified it to carry weapons and used it in bombing missions in the Darfur region of Sudan. The report had rekindled a long-standing debate over whether the aircraft ought to fall…

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Mozart. Piano Concertos. Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. Christian Zacharias, piano and conductor.

This content was published on Feb 20, 2008

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Swiss pass Euro 2008 security audit

This content was published on Feb 20, 2008 An international panel of football security experts believes the European championship co-hosts can organise a safe tournament in June provided they fine-tune some areas of the security plan. Security expert Professor Otto Adang of the Netherlands led a team of observers that inspected four football matches in Zurich, Basel, Geneva and Bern between August and…

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William White: Evolution

This content was published on Feb 20, 2008

Hitzfeld signs up as national football coach

This content was published on Feb 19, 2008 The Bayern Munich trainer will take charge of the national team on July 1 after leaving his current job at the end of the season, the Swiss Football Association said Tuesday. Hitzfeld will succeed Köbi Kuhn, who is stepping down after the European Championship being played in Switzerland and Austria in June. The 59-year-old began…

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