Canada will take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, the organisers announced on Wednesday. The world’s biggest live televised music event is thus expanding to the Americas. "The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its newest member, CBC/Ra...

A natural lake has formed over the past few weeks on the Glacier 3000 in Les Diablerets in canton Vaud in western Switzerland. This temporary lake, with its turquoise-blue hues, is fed by meltwater from the glacier. The lake forms between May and Jul...

Lonza is expanding its collaboration with an American biopharmaceutical company, the identity of which has not been disclosed. The Basel-based pharmaceutical contract manufacturer is set to commence production for two new biologics programmes, with a...

The Swiss agrochemical company Syngenta Group is getting a new chief executive. The Board of Directors unanimously appointed Hengde Qin as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) starting August 1, the Basel-based company announced on Wednesday. The cu...

The Federal Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Russian oligarch to be removed from the sanctions list in connection with the war in Ukraine. In a judgement published on Wednesday, the judges in Lausanne rejected his request to lift the freeze...

The trial of a teenager who is accused of stabbing an Orthodox Jewish man in the street in Zurich in March 2024 began on Wednesday morning in Dielsdorf, in canton Zurich, before the Juvenile Court. The young defendant declined to answer the judge’s...

The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, is in Moscow. Over the next two days, she is due to discuss “crucial humanitarian issues” with the Russian authorities related to the conflict in Ukraine. Du...

Six months after the devastating fire in Crans-Montana, Mayor Nicolas Féraud takes stock of the situation. “I felt there was a lack of humanity at a time when so many people needed it,” he said in an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He ...

After a first quarter of 2026 that was virtually at a standstill, the Swiss initial public offering (IPO) market rebounded in the second quarter with three new listings. However, according to consulting firm EY, many prospective issuers prefer to wai...

The Pro Juventute Foundation reports that the number of enquiries from children regarding domestic violence has tripled in five years. With the inclusion of non-violent parenting in the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB), corporal punishment and other degrading ...

Thunderstorms caused Zurich Airport to cancel some 70 flights and divert more than 30 aircraft from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning. Many passengers were unable to begin their journeys and had to spend the night at the airport. By 7:00 on Wednes...

Swiss finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter is adamant that a revised cross-border worker deal must be struck with Italy. Keller-Sutter met Italian finance minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti, in Rome on Tuesday. The meeting took place immediately after the...

Switzerland has experienced its third-warmest June since records began in 1864. The national average temperature was 3.5 degrees Celsius above the 1991–2020 average. The warmest June on record was in 2003, whilst the second-warmest, according to a ...

Switzerland's electronic identity system will not be introduced this year. More time is needed to enhance data protection and user security. Until now, there had been talk of launching the e-ID in the second half of 2026. A statement issued by the Fe...

A coalition of left-leaning political parties and environmental organisations has launched a popular initiative to block the construction of new nuclear power stations in Switzerland. Building new nuclear plants would make Switzerland dependent on fo...

The Swiss authorities have warned of an increasing number of performance enhancing products containing peptides being imported illegally into Switzerland. Often ordered online, these unregulated and unauthorised products pose “considerable health r...

Extreme heatwaves, such as the past few days, remain a rarity in Switzerland despite climate change, according to the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss). A heatwave of the same or greater intensity occurs less than once every ...

Swiss voters will decide on four pressing issues at ballot box at the end of November. These include parliament's proposed value-added tax (VAT) increase to fund the pension pot and whether to ease restrictions on the export and re-export of military...

The Swiss population continues to enjoy the highest average wealth in the world. The UBS Global Wealth Report calculates that Swiss adults have an average wealth equivalent to $910,382. The United States ($696,277) and Luxembourg ($654,732) follow in...

Switzerland can now import less duty-free steel into the European Union than before. The duty-free import quotas into the EU for partner countries with an agreement are around 33% lower than before, said a European Commission official. This affects S...

Wolf urine could be used as a scent barrier to protect livestock from attack, according to Swiss researchers. Urine gives wolves provides important information about potential intruders. Alpha wolves with pups are particularly alert to this, as a stu...

Swiss trade unions and political parties have launched a referendum to challenge parliamentary measures that would override cantonal minimum wages. The people's initiative committee said parliament's decision constitutes an attack on wages and refere...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) purchased foreign currency equivalent to CHF3.94 billion between January and March. This is evident from statistics on the SNB’s foreign exchange transactions published on Tuesday. The central bank announces its interv...

Three Swiss museums have officially returned 18 cultural artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria. Swiss government minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider visited the African country to mark the beginning of a new chapter in cultural cooperation...

The Swiss canton of Ticino has issued a warning about a major forest fire in the Cima della Trosa region, above Locarno. The authorities described the blaze as a major fire, and said that fire-fighting operations were already under way. According to ...

Swiss businessman Pascal Jaussi has been jailed for five and a half years after being found guilty of embezzlement, fraud, forgery and arson. The Freiburg Commercial Criminal Court handed down the sentence on Jaussi, who was once hailed as the “Swi...

Trade negotiations in Washington have failed to yield a breakthrough between Switzerland and the United States, according to Swiss president Guy Parmelin. Parmelin said a meeting with US Trade Representative Jamesion Greer had taken place in a friend...

In 2025, more than 140,000 tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment were recycled in Switzerland for the first time – around 144,000 tonnes, to be precise. This represents a 6% increase on the previous year, according to a report publish...

New heatwave records were set on Monday at several Swiss weather stations. By midday, Bern/Zollikofen, Payerne, Buchs/Aarau and Pully had recorded 13 days with temperatures above 30°C. Zurich/Fluntern, Schaffhausen, Delémont, Fribourg and Altdorf h...

A trans woman is at the centre of a controversy at the Marzilibad in Bern. She was taken away by the police on Sunday following an altercation in the women’s section of the public open-air swimming pool. "The police operation was disproportionate,"...