Swiss Identity

Numbers show Swiss reading habits are healthy

This content was published on Sep 11, 2017 The Swiss are readers, according to statistics: 80 percent get through at least a book a year, while one in three is finishing a book a month.

overhead shot of glacier with a part broken off

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Glacier collapses near Swiss ski resort

This content was published on Sep 11, 2017 An unstable part of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has now completely collapsed, without causing any major damage.

Culture

Jakob Marten ist der Schützenkönig

This content was published on Sep 11, 2017 Das Knabenschiessen hat seinen festen Platz im Zürcher Festkalender und gehört genauso zum Herbst wie das Sechseläuten zum Frühling. Der Anlass ist das grösste jährliche Volksfest in Zürich und die grösste Budenstadt der Schweiz lockt mit all ihrem kulinarischen Angebot Jahr für Jahr Tausende an den Fuss des Uetliberges. An der diesjährigen Austragung konnten Mädchen und…

Details of the three-tonne marble sarcophagus from Turkey

Culture

Priceless Roman sarcophagus heads home after legal saga

This content was published on Sep 11, 2017 Seven years after it was discovered in a Geneva free port, a rare Roman Empire-era sarcophagus is returning to Turkey.

Kidney transplant (archive picture from 2009)

Demographics

Swiss non-profit group pushes for organ donations

This content was published on Sep 10, 2017 Plans are underway to launch a people’s initiative aimed at tackling shortage of organ donations in Switzerland.

Demographics

Writing in a Swiss treehouse and frustrated rail commuters

This content was published on Sep 10, 2017 Here's a selection of the stories we will bring you in the upcoming week.

Bildersturm 1587 auf einer Darstellung aus der Sammlung von Johann Jakob Wick (1522-1588)

History

Zurich youngsters go on rampage against religious art

This content was published on Sep 10, 2017 This historical account is part of a series of swissinfo.ch articles marking 500 years of the Reformation.

Demographics

Sometimes just a few words are enough

This content was published on Sep 10, 2017 The suicide rate in Switzerland, once one of the highest in the world, has fallen in the past 20 years.

A father holds his newborn infant at the Triemli Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, on September 27, 2016.

Demographics

Lucerne research finds how to cut antibiotic overuse in babies

This content was published on Sep 9, 2017 Researchers has successfully tested a way of targeting antibiotic therapy in new-born babies, thereby avoiding unnecessary treatment and side effects.

Diccon Bewes standing in front of snow covered mountain range

Culture

But which one’s the tallest?

This content was published on Sep 9, 2017 What would Switzerland be without its stunning mountains? In this episode Diccon Bewes gives a brief introduction to the Swiss Alps.

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