Switzerland has condemns Thursday’s Russian attack on two Ukrainian civilian buses, which left at least 30 people dead and 18 injured. The Russian air strike took place near Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, which has not yet been fully captured by...

Swiss national football team captain Granit Xhaka has been put on two years’ probation after he admitted obtaining a fake vaccination certificate during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also been fined 50 daily rates of CHF3,000 ($3,598) each by the L...

French screenwriter Fanny Herrero and Indian-American director Mira Nair, mother of the Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, will be among the international celebrities joining the 32nd Geneva International Film Festival. Fanny Herrero, who has made a ...

Six years before the tragic fire on January 1, the owner of the bar Le Constellation wrote to his employees that the sparklers could set the bar on fire. This message raises the question of whether he should be charged with manslaughter. The WhatsApp...

With the arrival of autumn, the season for respiratory infections has begun in Switzerland. While the flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are still circulating to a limited extent, cases of Covid-19 are already on the rise in some regions. Howe...

At the start of autumn 2026, the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) had issued more permits for the preventive culling of wolves than in the same period last year. A legally binding permit decision has been issued for 39 packs. In 2025, the fi...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Russia for information regarding a possible further death from pneumonia in Irkutsk. WHO expert Abdirahman Mahamud, speaking in Geneva, emphasised that the organisation was referring to a media report whi...

Raiffeisen’s economists have significantly revised their forecasts for the Swiss economy upwards and expect the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to bring its zero-interest-rate policy to an end in the near future. In an analysis published on Thursday, the...

Artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities in the Swiss labour market. However, not everyone is benefiting equally from the growing demand for AI specialists. The job market for artificial intelligence (AI) is booming in Switzerland. Betwe...

In Switzerland, a third of all animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. According to the WWF’s new Living Planet Report, this proportion is higher than in any of Switzerland’s neighbouring countries. The main reasons for this are ...

According to a study, collectors under the age of 30 are very keen to buy art. However, even for so-called Generation Z, inherited pieces remain an important gateway into the world of collecting. According to a press release issued by Swiss bank UBS ...

Data has been leaked following a cyberattack on an external software supplier to the Swiss federal pension fund Publica. It is not yet clear exactly which data has been affected. The Office of the Attorney General has launched an investigation, annou...

In its first resolution on the issue, the UN Human Rights Council warned on Tuesday in Geneva of the threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The resolution, which was adopted by consensus, states that AI systems must comply with intern...

Swiss online retailer Galaxus reports that sales of so-called smart glasses are rising sharply. It also says that men account for nine in ten purchases of the devices. Manufacturers estimate that millions of smart glasses will be in use worldwide by ...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a wire-shaped motor that could one day be used in robotic suits to help people move. The “FiberMotor” is between one and three millimetres in diameter, accord...

The Swiss food giant Nestlé has signed a multi-year international marketing partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA). The deal covers 21 markets across four continents. As part of the partnership, Nestlé brands Milo, Nescau and Ne...

Swiss voters are likely to have their say on the relationship between collective labour agreements and cantonal minimum wages. A coalition of trade unions and political parties has submitted more than 100,000 signatures against plans to override cant...

Switzerland’s property market continued to rise in the third quarter. Buyers paid an average of 0.8% more for properties than they did in the previous quarter, and 3.3% more than a year earlier, according to the CIFI private property price index pu...

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden paid a low-profile visit to Zurich on Monday. The king and his delegation visited the Innovation Park in Dübendorf, as well as the federal technology institute ETH Zurich and several companies. The Swedish king was wel...

Roche is supporting efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by providing laboratory equipment. The Basel-based pharmaceutical company is supplying the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) with two molecul...

More than 10,500 animals are being culled across Switzerland following an outbreak of highly contagious enzootic pneumonia. The disease has affected 60 breeding and fattening farms in 14 cantons. An outbreak of enzootic pneumonia was detected on Sept...

Hamas’s attack on Israel and the war in Gaza that followed have worsened the security situation for Jewish people and institutions in Switzerland, according to the Intercommunity Coordination Against Anti-Semitism and Defamation (known by its Frenc...

Switzerland and European countries are stepping up their cooperation in civil protection. This is the first time that Switzerland has organised and hosted such an exercise. Some 500 people are taking part in the simulated earthquake disaster in the c...

The public prosecutor’s office in the Swiss canton of Valais has charged Swiss Ski vice-president Claude-Alain Schmidhalter with fraud and breach of trust. Schmidhalter, who is also chair of the organising committee for the 2027 Alpine World Ski Ch...

Francis Halzen’s Nobel Prize in Physics has a Swiss connection. Researchers from the University of Geneva are involved in the IceCube experiment, for which Belgian-born physicist Halzen was honoured this year. The research group led by Geneva-based...

A broad coalition claims to have collected over 131,800 signatures in support of a referendum against the construction of new nuclear power stations in Switzerland. The signatures were submitted to the Federal Chancellery in Bern on Tuesday. The refe...

The Zurich High Court will deliver its verdict in the case against former Raiffeisen chief executive Pierin Vincenz in January next year. The High Court announced on Tuesday that the case is currently in the internal deliberation and decision-making ...

Swiss asset manager Partners Group is set to wind up its private equity fund, Partners Group Private Equity (PGPE), which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. A large majority of investors, representing 74.12% of the share capital, voted in favour...

A campaign group insists that the public must have their say on all major projects linked to the European Organization for Nuclear Research's CERN research facility in Switzerland. The group launched a Geneva cantonal constitutional initiative and cr...

Politicians and business representatives say a Swiss fireworks ban would have far-reaching negative consequences for private and local celebrations. Opponents of the fireworks initiative are against a nationwide ban. They argue that targeted rules ar...