In just over two weeks’ time, the 2026 Nobel Prizes will be announced in Stockholm. The identities of the winners remain a closely guarded secret right up until the last moment. Nevertheless, there is already a flurry of speculation. A Swiss-Britis...

The trial of a man accused of multiple counts of attempted murder of three nursery school children in Zurich opened on Thursday. The trial began with the questioning of the defendant. The prosecution accuses the 25-year-old Chinese man, who was a stu...

The Swiss Senate does not want a tax on short-haul flights. On Wednesday, it voted 20 to 17 against taking forward an initiative from the canton of Basel-City to that effect. While temperatures soared this summer, the country’s airports also report...

The United Arab Emirates won dismissal of a lawsuit by an oil trader who alleged the state directed a smear campaign that pushed his company into bankruptcy. The lawsuit, filed in January 2024 by oil trader Hazim Nada, claimed that his company, Lord ...

According to the federal government’s economists, the Swiss economy is likely to perform significantly better than previously expected. They are therefore raising their forecast substantially. The federal government’s expert group has revised its...