The Swiss National Bank (SNB) posted a profit of CHF25.17 billion ($39.2 billion) in the first half of the year, mainly thanks to its foreign currency holdings. Its gold reserves dragged the result down. Foreign currency positions generated a profit ...

The Swiss outdoor brand Mammut is changing hands. The investment firm Jacobs Capital is selling the Aargau-based company to a Chinese investor. Mammut will remain headquartered in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inb...

The highest temperature of the year so far was recorded in Basel-Binningen on Thursday. According to Meteoschweiz, the thermometer rose to 39.7 degrees by 2:10 pm. This also marked a return to the highest temperature ever recorded on the northern sid...

Passenger rail transport in Switzerland reached a new record in the second quarter of 2026, totalling 6.3 billion passenger-kilometres. Freight traffic is also showing signs of a slight recovery, according to figures released on Thursday by LITRA and...

The official fireworks displays to mark Swiss National Day on the Rhine and at Bruderholz in Basel have been cancelled. The reason for this is the ongoing drought and heatwave, as the government announced on Thursday. +Get the most important news fro...

In Switzerland, despite the heatwave, people continue to wear pants to work. Shorts have no place in the office – far less so than in other European countries. This is according to a study by the YouGov institute published Tuesday on behalf of the ...

High housing costs in French-speaking Switzerland have fuelled interest in moving to France. A survey by the comparison service Comparis found that an estimated 92,400 people from French-speaking Switzerland are actively looking for a property in the...

Do pets make us happy and healthy? A new Swiss study raises some doubts. In some cases, owners of dogs, cats and other pets fare even worse than people who don't own pets. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox For the study publ...

Mystery solved: An international research team has identified the likely cause of abrupt cold spells over the last 12,000 years. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the findings, volcanic eruptions triggered the c...

Sexual and labour exploitation remains a serious problem in Switzerland. In 2025, 532 victims, mostly women, received support from aid organisations. Some 87 criminal proceedings relating to human trafficking were pending, but only a few resulted in ...

A headphone case that had become lodged in a seat caused smoke to develop on a Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) flight from Zurich to New York last Monday. The aircraft therefore made an unscheduled landing in Bangor, in the US state of Maine. +G...

According to various reports, FIFA, the world football governing body, has set a deadline for approval of a planned investor deal and, in return, has promised a one-off payment. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This has bee...

Temperature records were broken in several places across Switzerland on Wednesday. In Engelberg in canton Obwalden, the temperature reached 29.1 degrees, exceeding the highest temperature ever recorded on July 29 by more than two degrees. +Get the mo...

Generic drug manufacturer Sandoz is continuing to expand its presence in the market for novel GLP-1 diabetes treatments. The Basel-based company has confirmed that a new semaglutide generic has been granted marketing authorisation in Brazil, accordin...

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has classified an osteopathy diploma obtained in Germany as largely equivalent to a Swiss qualification. Only one gap needs to be addressed through a specific measure. +Get the most important news from Switzerla...

Swiss workers are among the most advanced in Europe when it comes to adopting artificial intelligence , but rapid technological progress is raising social concerns. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox More than half of employe...

There is a new arrival among the gorillas at Zurich Zoo. Mayumi, a female gorilla, has given birth to her first baby. The zoo is “cautiously optimistic”. The first few weeks are always the most critical. +Get the most important news from Switzerl...

Three Swiss Army helicopters took off from a military airbase in Locarno in canton Ticino on Tuesday to help fight forest fires on the French island of Corsica. The mission presents a number of challenges, including heat, smoke and unexpected develop...

Switzerland has called on the United Nations in Geneva to uphold the 1951 Refugee Convention, which marked its 75th anniversary on Tuesday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "We must all feel a sense of duty to uphold the ri...

Swiss bank UBS posted significantly higher earnings in the second quarter of 2026. However, given the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the debate on stricter capital requirements in Switzerland, the major bank is taking a cautious approach to its time...

The Swiss are very loyal to their main bank, but this loyalty comes at a high price. This is revealed in a study published on Tuesday by the online comparison site Moneyland.ch, which analysed the overall costs of Switzerland’s leading credit insti...

Between April and July, volunteers across Switzerland used drones to save 7,590 fawns from being killed by agricultural mowers. This is a new record – over a thousand more than in 2025. Around 800 volunteer drone teams were deployed. They tracked d...

The Zurich Insurance Group has dismissed more than a dozen employees in connection with enforcement proceedings by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) that have come to light. This was stated by Group CEO Mario Greco in an interv...

The Zurich-based International Football Association Board (IFAB) has clarified the scope of VAR’s intervention. For the time being, VAR (video assistant referee) will no longer be able to intervene regarding the nature of the offence in the event o...

The population of the city of Bern, the Swiss capital, grew by 257 people to 147,124 in the first half of 2026. This was due to a positive net migration figure and a birth surplus, even though the number of births reached a long-term low. The number ...

The ongoing drought and heat are causing grapes to ripen earlier. Lucerne’s wine-growing commissioner, Nicole Theiler, therefore expects this year’s grape harvest to begin “a few days to two weeks” earlier than in an average year. Whether the...

A Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) flight between Zurich and New York was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, in the US state of Maine, due to smoke developing on board. The aircraft landed safely and without incident, the airline con...

The Swiss-American opera singer Barbara Hendricks and 74 international figures have launched a coalition to mark the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Speaking in Geneva on Tuesday, they affirmed the right of persecuted people to seek ...

Air travel has become significantly more expensive in Switzerland over the past five years. What's more, airfares are likely to rise even further in the coming months, says comparison service Comparis. Travellers are now paying just under 70% more fo...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s close relationship with US President Donald Trump has also raised suspicions in the US Congress. The influential Democrat Jamie Raskin has called for information from FIFA and from Infantino. Raskin called on FIFA,...