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Mountain king dissected – for art’s sake

This content was published on Oct 3, 2017 Walk into a zoological museum and you’d expect to see a bunch of fossils and dead animals. But an art installation?

Officers stand outside Mandalay Hotel where mass shooting took place in Las Vegas.

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United States is killing itself, warn Swiss press

This content was published on Oct 3, 2017 On Monday, a gunman on the 32nd floor of a Vegas Strip casino opened fire on people at an outdoor country music festival below. The shooter, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed 59 people as tens of thousands of concertgoers ran for their lives. A total of 527 were also injured. Leading with the headline ‘America…

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Swiss extend condolences in Las Vegas shooting

This content was published on Oct 2, 2017 No Swiss citizens have been reported injured in Sunday’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas Strip.

Cow and farmer stroll with sun-light breaking through a cloud sprinkled sky

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Capturing the beauty of Swiss farming

This content was published on Oct 2, 2017 More than 15,000 pictures were sent in to the agricultural photo competition Agrimage.ch. Here are some of the winners.

Vote today : the giant finger seen around Switzerland on ballot day

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Foreigners in Switzerland shunning the ballot boxes

This content was published on Oct 2, 2017 Research focusing on elections in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel finds that foreigners, even when eligible, tend to be less involved in civic life.

Franck Giovannini at the Hotel de Ville restaurant

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Franck Giovannini crowned Gault Millau Chef of the Year

This content was published on Oct 2, 2017 The chef of the famed Hôtel de Ville Crissier has been named Chef of the Year by the Swiss edition of French restaurant guide Gault Millau.

David Leuenberger assis à la table d un café avec un verre d eau et un livre.

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‘I wish I could invite my boyfriend to my parents’ for Christmas’

This content was published on Oct 2, 2017 David Leuenberger dreams of getting married and one day having children, but under current Swiss law, same-sex couples do not have these rights.

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College students turn to foreign universities for doctorate titles

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017 This means that technical colleges must team up with universities to allow students to achieve this recognition of educational attainment. Writing in the Horizons magazineExternal link of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Claire Gervais, a professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, labelled the system as “dishonest”. She complained that many professors at universities only…

The city of Rüschlikon as seen from Lake Zurich

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Wealthy Rüschlikon, the Alpine ibex and teen media habits

This content was published on Oct 1, 2017 These are some of the stories coming up on swissinfo.ch for the week beginning October 2, 2017.

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Celebrating Meret Oppenheim

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Mountain king dissected – for art’s sake

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United States is killing itself, warn Swiss press

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Swiss extend condolences in Las Vegas shooting

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Capturing the beauty of Swiss farming

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Foreigners in Switzerland shunning the ballot boxes

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Franck Giovannini crowned Gault Millau Chef of the Year

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‘I wish I could invite my boyfriend to my parents’ for Christmas’

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College students turn to foreign universities for doctorate titles

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Wealthy Rüschlikon, the Alpine ibex and teen media habits

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