A Swiss canton has legal ownership of a rare ancient artefacts, but only because it took possession of the collection before regulations were introduced to prevent unlawful imports of cultural objects. Therefore, the so-called Guigoz collection in w...

Swiss biotechnology companies invested a record CHF2.6 billion ($2.7 billion) into research last year despite most concentrating their efforts away from the coronavirus pandemic. Research was instead focused on areas such as immuno-oncology, neurolo...

The UN Rapporteur for the protection of freedom of expression has criticised Switzerland's banking secrecy laws that result in self-censorship by journalists. This comes as Switzerland drops four places in the annual country ranking of freedom of the...

The number of reported suspicious financial transactions continued to rise in Switzerland in 2021, but at a lower rate than in the first year of the pandemic. Switzerland’s Money Laundering Reporting Office (MROS) saw a 12% increase of suspicious ...

Consumers in Switzerland are much more pessimistic about the general economic situation, with households feeling the strain as prices continue to rise, a new survey shows. April data published by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) on ...

Traditional May 1 celebrations have drawn thousands of demonstrators to Swiss cities. The situation in Ukraine was a key focus of demands this year. Demonstrations were planned in 50 locations across Switzerland on Sunday. The largest of which was i...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has roots in a small, picturesque farming region in central Switzerland. Using genealogy websites and local archives, historians have been able to connect Musk with the Haldimann name, which is still present in the Emmental region...

A Swiss parliamentary visit to Kyiv and an ammunition export ban last week have reignited debate in political circles about how Switzerland defines neutrality. The Sunday papers capture the key dividing lines. The fact that “neutrality needs to be...

The World Economic Forum, which will hold its annual meeting in Davos starting on May 22, has been distancing itself from Russian delegates, many of whom have been regular participants in WEF events. Swiss media reported on Sunday that the rupture be...

A Switzerland-based research team has developed a new method to track and analyse animal behaviour using Artificial Intelligence. The technology is currently being tested at the Zurich Zoo. Can a machine sense when an animal is happy, curious, or af...

Shareholders have refused to absolve Credit Suisse board members of legal liability after a series of bungles and court cases in recent years. At an annual general meeting on Friday, a proposal to formally discharge directors of their responsibiliti...

Four Swiss special forces soldiers have lost a court case for unfair dismissal after they were ejected from the elite military unit for refusing Covid-19 vaccinations. In a verdict made public on Friday, the Federal Administrative Court ruled that t...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) continues to beat off demands to fight inflation by raising interest rates and to distribute more reserves to cantons and other causes. SNB president Barbara Janom Steiner showed signs of frustration in a speech on Frid...

The first two Hermes 900 HFE reconnaissance drones have arrived in Switzerland and are expected to be operational by mid-2022. The delivery was announced by the Federal Office of Armaments (armasuisse) on Friday. The unmanned aircraft, as well as ...

President Ignazio Cassis and Prime Minister Boris Johnson inked an agreement to strengthen mutual cooperation in trade, finance, research and immigration. Cassis’s visit to the UK on Thursday underlined the willingness of both Switzerland and UK s...

A cross-party group of parliamentarians insist that their recent visit to Ukraine has not compromised Switzerland’s neutrality. The delegation has been criticised, primarily by the right-wing People’s Party, for showing support for Ukraine durin...

A team of researchers have identified a 10cm long tooth discovered in the Swiss Alps as belonging to a giant marine reptile called the Ichthyosaur. This is only the second time that such a large tooth has been attributed to an Ichthyosaur. Most of t...

A new Swiss proposal on the future of bilateral relations with the European Union faces an uphill battle in Brussels. On Wednesday, Switzerland’s chief negotiator Livia Leu met with the European Commission’s Juraj Nociar to move the discussion f...

Sexual harassment is widespread in Switzerland but reliable data about unwanted behaviour is not available, according to an expert report. Women are the victims in nine out of ten cases most cases of harassment and incidents occur mainly in the publ...

The Swiss government has approved a deal on the exchange of sensitive information with NATO. The agreement is aimed at protecting each other’s classified digital information and cyber security, according to the defence ministry. The deal allows S...

Switzerland has welcomed Tuesday's UN General Assembly resolution on the use of Security Council veto powers, saying it was a step forward in strengthening multilateralism. The resolution, introduced by Liechtenstein, was co-sponsored by 83 states, ...

The Swiss government has approved a social security accord with Britain including old age pensions, disability benefits as well as accident and health insurance. It ensures that people only have to pay social security contributions in one country a...

The Swiss government has confirmed that it vetoed the re-export of Swiss-made ammunition used in Gepard anti-aircraft tanks that Germany plans to send to Ukraine. Switzerland has cited its policy of neutrality, which forbids it from sending war mater...

A political campaign has been launched to reform the Swiss militia system to include both men and women in a community service. The compulsory “citizens service” would benefit society and the environment, according to the promoters. “The curr...

The crisis management of the Swiss health authorities has been given generally good marks by a panel of experts. But their report criticises the country's level of preparedness and certain restrictive measures during the pandemic. The expert report ...

Structural biologist Nicolas Thomä has been awarded this year’s Otto Naegeli Prize for medical research, considered one of the most prestigious scientific awards in Switzerland. German-born Thomä, from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomed...

The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s charity has collected more than CHF115 million ($120 million) for the victims of the war in Ukraine. Swiss Solidarity said on Tuesday that the public had donated CHF115,132,116 since March. The money is to be ...

The Böögg, an exploding snowman with a famed but erratic ability to predict the weather, has returned to Sechseläutenplatz in central Zurich. Last year the effigy was forced to undertake a pandemic-related outing to a gorge in central Switzerland....

Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year, will meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in London on Thursday. The visit will focus on ways of deepening political, economic a...

Authorities in Bern have rejected – on the basis of neutrality – two recent requests by Germany to re-export Swiss-made ammunition to Kyiv, the SonntagsZeitung paper reports. “Both Germany’s inquiries were answered in the negative, with refe...