The Federal Supreme Court has dismissed Erwin Sperisen’s appeal against his conviction for aiding and abetting murder. It thereby upheld the 14-year prison sentence imposed by the Geneva Cantonal Court in 2024. Sperisen was Director-General of the ...

Two European nationals, a Swiss woman and an Austrian woman, who were kidnapped in Niger over a year ago, have been released. They have arrived in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, a local television channel announced during the night between Wednesday and...

Nestlé gained momentum in the third quarter. The food group recorded organic growth of 4%, up from 3.7% in the previous quarter. The Swiss food and beverage giant will also deconsolidate its Russian business from its consolidated financial statement...

The Switzerland–EU bilateral deal has reached a new milestone. The House of Representative's Foreign Affairs Committee has reacted positively to the package of treaties. Following the marathon debate in the Senate during the autumn session, the EU ...

Over the course of thirty years, the plumage of Swiss barn owls has become more reddish-brown and spotted. A long-term study by the University of Lausanne interprets this as a sign of rapidly advancing evolution, as it announced on Wednesday. Accordi...

From January 1, 2027, married couples will once again be able to use a double surname in Switzerland. The government will bring this amendment to the Civil Code, which was passed by parliament, into force on that date. From next year spouses will onc...

The Swiss government remains opposed to the national poison information centre being funded solely by the public sector. It now intends to use legislative amendments to compel the pharma and chemicals industry to contribute to the funding of Tox Info...

The governing Federal Council wants to ensure a level playing field between Swiss cement and cement from abroad. To this end, a COâ‚‚ compensation levy is to be imposed on cement imports above a certain quantity. A COâ‚‚ border adjustment mechanism i...

Zurich Airport is carrying out a partial reshuffle of its senior management. Chief Operating Officer Stefan Tschudin is leaving the company in mid-2027. Chief Commercial Officer Stefan Gross is moving to India, where he will take on a leading role at...

The Gösgen nuclear power station in the Swiss canton of Solothurn was reconnected to the grid on Tuesday evening following an automatic emergency reactor shutdown. The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (Ensi) had granted authorisation for th...

Whilst the initiatives on fireworks and tax fairness are enjoying broad support and the proposal to fund the 13th pension payments is likely to be rejected, the outcome of the vote on the War Materiel Act remains to be seen. These are the findings of...

Following a technical fault, Skyguide’s air traffic control systems are now operating normally again. Capacity has been increased to 80% and Skyguide intends to restore full capacity following a 24-hour stabilisation phase. Skyguide’s experts hav...

A large number of Tamedia employees gathered for a rally against planned redundancies at the Swiss media group. Outside the main building of the Tamedia publishing house in Zurich, media workers called for an immediate halt to redundancies. According...

A Swiss tuba player's bid to overturn a noise pollution ban has fallen on deaf ears in court. The musician failed to convince the judge to measure the noise impact of his instrument. He demanded an official measurement to define what constitutes unre...

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved Switzerland’s first bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). The regulator has approved the first publicly traded fund to invest directly in the cryptocurrency, emphasising that inves...

Swiss International Air Lines and its sister airline Edelweiss are expanding their summer timetables. SWISS is now flying to Toulouse and offering more flights within Europe and to Asia. The holiday airline Edelweiss is offering more flights to Flori...

Four years after a NASA probe struck the asteroid moon Dimorphos in the first planetary defence crash test, Europe’s Hera space probe is in place to measure the impact. The forensic investigation, with Swiss participation, is now underway and Heraâ...

The former mayor of Chermignon, Jean-Claude Savoy, has appeared for a third time before prosecutors investigating the fire at the Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. The authorities are keen to get to the bottom of events of 2015 that ma...

Levi Strauss has won a court order to examine whether the decorative stitching on its jeans and other clothing should be protected as a generic mark in Switzerland. Levi Strauss has secured a partial victory before the Federal Administrative Court. T...

Comet, the Swiss-based specialist in X-rays and radio frequencies, has seen its growth accelerate sharply in the third quarter of 2026. This growth is being driven by the recovery in the semiconductor sector. Its turnover has soared and orders have a...

Swiss engineering and technology firm ABB is setting up a joint venture with Mitsubishi Electric for low-voltage products in the Asia-Pacific region. The industrial group is acquiring a 51% majority stake in the joint venture for the equivalent of ar...

Drought and environmental pollution are posing an increasing threat to the Swiss population’s drinking water supply, according to experts. In the search for solutions, numerous experts in wastewater and water protection are meeting in Zurich with r...

The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has acquired the rights to a portfolio of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) developed by its Chinese competitor Hansoh Pharma, for $510 million (CHF420 million). The transaction consists of an initial instalment o...

In recent years, the Swiss army has considered collaborating with Palantir five times but rejected overtures from the controversial United States technology company each time. This is shown by research conducted by the online magazine Republik and th...

The Reformed Church of the Swiss canton of Zurich has apologised after admitting it failed to investigate reports of sexual assault by a minister properly. The incidents occurred between 1992 and 2006. The church leadership is said not to have fulfil...

Zurich is to have an international commercial court after the cantonal council voted in favour of the proposal. The Swiss canton had already sought to introduce such a court six years ago. The Swiss People's Party did not wish to consider the motion,...

Securitas, a Swiss company operating in the security services market, is alleged to have forced employees to work many excessively long shifts for years. Some experts have told the Swiss public broadcaster SRF that the group’s practices constitute ...

Researchers at the Swiss federal institute of technology ETH Zurich are testing a radar drone to accurately measure and predict landslides before they happen. The permafrost is thawing, which means monitoring the Alpine region to predict landslides a...

Partners Group co-founder Alfred Gantner is calling for Swiss companies that hire foreign workers to be taxed and for the resulting revenues to be distributed among the population as way to reform the country’s immigration system. In an interview w...

According to Greenpeace, at the current rate, the global marine conservation target will not be achieved for another 265 years. The Swiss-based environmental organisation is calling for more protected areas as the UN Conference on Biological Diversit...