Swiss food manufacturer Nestlé plans to sell its mainstream vitamins and supplements business to United States private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners for $1 billion. The move comes as Nestlé CEO Philipp Navratil tries to streamline and turn aroun...

According to the solar energy industry association, the model for local electricity cooperatives, which was introduced in Switzerland at the start of the year, has been a success. After just six months, there are already around 1,800 such cooperative...

There have been two fatal accidents while swimming within three days at Lake Cauma in Flims in canton Graubünden. Mayor Christoph Schmidt says he is shocked, but does not want to hear any talk of a ban on swimming outside opening hours. The latest i...

At the end of August, Novartis halted several clinical trials of experimental cell therapies for autoimmune diseases in the fields of immunology and neuroscience, following the deaths of three patients. The Basel-based pharmaceutical giant confirmed ...

Switzerland experienced a summer with a high number of thunderstorms. More than 22,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes were recorded between early June and late August. Relative to its land area, it has the second-highest density of lightning strik...

Credit card details instead of dinner: fraudsters have tampered with the payment page of a food delivery service. The Federal Office for Cybersecurity is warning against this scam, known as skimming, and offers advice on how to protect against it. Ho...

A meat-like texture made from lentils and beans: researchers at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich have developed a new method for giving whole pulses a fibrous structure. For the process, the researchers soaked the pulses, puréed them and ...

A bison bull charged and injured a ranger in the enclosure at Welschenrohr in Solothurn on Monday afternoon. Rega airlifted the injured man to hospital. The experienced ranger wanted to scare the bison bull away and approached the animal to within on...

There is a shortage of paediatricians in Switzerland, but it is not equally severe everywhere. A new study shows why families in some cantons struggle to get appointments, while others are well catered for. Nationwide, there is one paediatrician for ...

To do more to protect the climate, we need emotion rather than just facts. A study from Geneva shows that images and emotional stories are more likely to motivate people to take action than scientific evidence. A research team from the University of ...

Swiss investment house Partners Group has reshuffled its top management after a slump in first-half earnings and warned of a weaker outlook for performance fees. The Swiss private markets firm named veterans Roberto Cagnati and Juri Jenkner as co-chi...

Is anyone missing a three-metre carpet python? The Zurich cantonal police are looking for the owner of the snake, which was discovered and captured in a wood in Winterthur. "This carpet python was apparently out for a little stroll in the woods near ...

Scientists in Switzerland are working to make airplanes recyclable. A newly developed composite material is intended to ensure that lightweight and robust components no longer inevitably end up in landfill or incinerators. Materials used in the const...

Insurer Swiss Life is set to cut around 600 jobs by 2028. This will affect Swiss Life Switzerland and Swiss Life Asset Managers in roughly equal measure, primarily abroad. A large proportion of this is to be achieved through “natural wastage”. Th...

A 27-year-old German has drowned in Lake Cauma in Graubünden, eastern Switzerland, a few days after a British tourist died in the same lake. The German man was trying to swim to a small island to help a friend when he himself got into difficulty. De...

Canton Bern is amending its Data Protection Act, while canton Basel City is implementing its package of wage measures. These and other changes are coming into force in Switzerland on September 1. DATA PROTECTION: In canton Bern, the revised cantonal ...

The organiser of the rave party in Aarau, northern Switzerland, where one person was fatally shot and five people injured has defended the security plan for the venue in an interview. Olivier Grein, head of Urban Agency Events, told the Neue Zürcher...

UBS bank notched up an interim victory in its multi-year struggle against Switzerland’s push to make it hold billions of extra dollars in capital. The Zurich-based bank should be able to use convertible debt, known as AT1s, for as much as 50% of th...

Following a successful consultation process, the Swiss air traffic control company Skyguide now expects a total of 50 redundancies as part of its restructuring programme. A first wave of 14 redundancies is planned, followed by a second wave of around...

Vontobel Bank is turning its back on Zurich after more than 100 years. But the city does not expect an exodus of financial companies. A spokesperson for the Zurich city finance department, told Keystone-SDA regretted the bank leaving for canton Zug. ...

Canton Zurich's parliament has voted in favour of a ban on religious head coverings for female pupils and teachers in schools. Lawmakers approved a motion from the Swiss People's Party by 87 votes to 82, with six abstentions. A new law is now set to ...

A mountaineer fell to his death on the iconic Swiss mountain the Matterhorn whilst climbing via the Lion Ridge. Efforts to formally identify the mountaineer, who died on Sunday, are underway. The incident occurred on Sunday at around 7am, the Valais ...

Swiss watchmaking group Swatch has won its long-running legal battle in London against Samsung over counterfeit digital watch dials. The South Korean tech giant will have to pay the Biel-based watchmaker $11.6 million. Swatch had claimed $170 million...

Police have arrested a 43-year-old Swiss man in connection with a fatal shooting at a rave party at the weekend. Police are working on the assumption that the attack on Saturday night in Aarau was the act of a lone perpetrator. + Regulating firearms ...

In response to a shortage of protein-rich fodder, Switzerland has authorised temporary withdrawals from its compulsory reserves. Up to 20% of stocks may be used from September 1. Until the end of February 2027, it will therefore be possible to withdr...

Following a positive 2025, Swiss banks are expected to continue to grow in 2026, despite a challenging business and geopolitical environment and zero interest rates. This is the forecast of the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA), which says that Switzer...

Eight out of ten Swiss construction sites fail to adopt regular heatwave breaks when temperatures reach 33°C, according to trade union Unia. In July, Unia surveyed 984 construction workers from all regions of Switzerland on the implementation of hea...

Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard are using the Swiss Payinit platform to simplify international money transfers for Swiss bank customers. Both groups are collaborating with Payinit, the Swiss joint venture between Viseca and Cornèr Bank. Payin...

The trial of a 59-year-old man accused of being the logistical and financial mastermind of the ‘Ndrangheta in Switzerland begins today at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. The man is alleged to have transported money to Italy, acted as an i...

Nine Swiss political parties have reported total income of CHF24.6 million for 2025, which is less than in the previous year. The Socialist Democratic Party accounted for the largest share of this income. Reporting is governed by regulations on trans...