Anthropic has appointed Vasant Narasimhan, current CEO of Swiss pharma giant Novartis, as a member of its independent board of directors. The structure now has seven members, the US.-based AI company said. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

Starting July 1, the German digital psychotherapy app Deprexis can be prescribed by a doctor and covered by basic health insurance. While the arrival of this new tool has been met with a generally positive response, questions remain about its actual ...

The Swiss government has decided to tighten the federal law on home ownership by foreigners - commonly known as the Lex Koller law - in order to tackle the housing shortage. According to the changes, foreign homeowners will have to obtain authorisati...

According to Group CEO Sergio Ermotti, the Swiss bank UBS is making good progress integrating Credit Suisse, which was acquired three years ago. At the same time, management is working on preparing the bank for the coming decade. +Get the most import...

Sandoz has signed an agreement with the Rwandan government for the direct supply of essential medicines, including antibiotics and cancer drugs. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In addition to Rwanda, the supply is intended...

The municipality of Crans-Montana has reacted to the 11-hour hearing of its mayor Nicolas Féraud in connection with the tragic fire on New Year's Day. In a statement published on its website, the municipality aligned its position with the mayor. +Ge...

More pressure does not make a snowpack more stable, but in fact more susceptible to avalanches. This is according to experiments by researchers at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF). +Get the most important news from Switzerland ...

The Swiss Medical Association (FMH) points to an impending shortage of specialists. A quarter of doctors are over 60 years old and are therefore close to retirement age, as the FMH announced on Wednesday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland...

Zurich Airport has continued its upward trajectory despite the war in Iran. Passenger numbers climbed again in March. The shops also made more turnover. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In March, 2.47 million passengers tra...

In a joint statement, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and seven other countries have called for "an immediate end to the fighting in Lebanon". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The countries are "deeply concerned abo...

The Swiss defence ministry says progress is being made on procurement and system upgrade projects that had become bogged down. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Of the 23 newly-prioritised projects, only most are on track, R...

For the Swiss watch industry, physical events, like the Geneva watch fair, are of great importance after the coronavirus pandemic, despite growing digitalisation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Cyrille Vigneron, president...

Swiss International Air Lines will continue to suspend its flights to and from Dubai until July 11 due to the uncertain situation in the Middle East. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This was announced by the airline on Tue...

The first ski mountaineering races of the Patrouille des Glaciers in Switzerland have been postponed by 24 hours with organisers citing an increased avalanche risk on the course. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The affecte...

A convoy from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has arrived in Tehran with the first delivery of humanitarian supplies. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The first five 171-tonne truckloads of essential sup...

A Swiss popular initiative has been launched that calls for limits to be imposed on federal staffing costs. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Federal staffing expenditure should not rise by more than the Swiss median wage, t...

The Swiss steel industry is facing tougher European tariffs after the European Union tightened import rules to protect the industry. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox EU member states and parliament have agrred that in futur...

France has rejected Switzerland’s request to seize the assets of the owners of a Swiss bar who are under investigation following a devastating fire that killed 41 people. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A French court ha...

Two peacocks that escaped the Lange Erlen animal park in Basel have returned to the zoo after spending several days wandering the adjacent neighbourhoods. The colourful fowl were caught and returned on Monday, the Erlen Association Basel confirmed. O...

Following a complaint lodged by Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter, the Bern public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation over insult and defamation. A user of the social network X prompted the AI Grok chatbot to conjure insults aga...

French cement manufacturer Lafarge and eight former executives were found guilty on Monday of financing terrorism in 2013 and 2014, for paying jihadist groups to keep a factory running in the midst of the war in Syria. The company, which has since be...

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world's leading Italian-Swiss container shipping group, announced the transfer of ownership from its founder Gianluigi Aponte to his children Diego and Alexa Aponte. The transition, which took place during th...

Castles are the most visited historical monuments in Switzerland. Around 1.5 million visitors in 2025 passed through their fortified walls. Swiss castles are cultural beacons that shed light on history and connect people with their diverse activities...

According to election observer Sibel Arslan, Sunday's elections in Hungary were "very well organised, very calm and very peaceful". Election observer Roland Rino Büchel also spoke of "fair elections" and "clean procedures". The Hungarian peoples' de...

A new system called 'Bibo' aims to simplify travelling on public transport in Switzerland. The app automatically recognises when someone is on a bus, train or tram and charges the correct fare at the end of the journey. The industry organisation Alli...

Nicolas Féraud is being questioned by the Valais public prosecutor for the first time on Monday in connection with the tragic bar fire on January 1. He is the eighth of nine defendants to be questioned in the case. "This hearing means that it has ta...

Flight connections in Switzerland are likely to be cancelled again owing to the Lufthansa strike announced for Monday and Tuesday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On Friday, several connections to and from Germany were can...

The Ice Hockey World Championships taking place in Zurich and Fribourg in May are helping Zurich hotels to cushion the loss of overnight stays caused by the conflict in the Middle East. Hotels near the stadiums and in the city centre are benefiting i...

The 17th Zermatt Unplugged has attracted more than 35,000 visitors over the past five days. International artists such as Herbert Grönemeyer, Emeli Sandé and Placebo performed at various venues in the Valais mountain village. +Get the most importan...

The international horological museum (MIH) in La Chaux-de-Fonds, western Switzerland, will be staging a temporary exhibition from May 6 showcasing its acquisitions for 2025. The exhibition will include two highly prized objects: a pocket chronometer ...