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Enthusiast has 13 two-wheeled rides at home in Switzerland

The story of the iconic Freitag bag made of used truck tarpaulin began in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1993, when the two brothers and keen cyclists Daniel and Markus Freitag were looking for a practical and waterproof messenger bag.

Nigel de Jong has been stung by thieves who stole a watch worth thousands of pounds from his hotel room in Switzerland at a Dutch training camp.

Photo: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse A Solar Impulse aircraft takes off at Payerne airport May 24, 2012, piloted by André Borschberg. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype aircraft, which has 12,000 solar cells built into its jumbo-jet-sized wings (about 200 feet long), attempted its first intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco with a few days for a technical [...]

PAYERNE, Switzerland (AFP) - The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse on Thursday took off for Morocco on its first intercontinental flight attempt without using a drop of fuel. Pilot Andre Borschberg successfully launched the plane from an airfield in Payerne in western Switzerland at around 8:30am (0630 GMT), bound for Rabat via Madrid, after a two-hour delay due to foggy conditions. If ....

BMW is fined $163m for preventing sales of its cars to Swiss nationals outside Switzerland.

Mêmes causes, mêmes effets. Quelques jours après l'annonce de la suppression de plus de 250 emplois chez Lufthansa Techniks Switzerland, c'est Jet Aviation, un autre acteur de l'aménagement et de la maintenance aéronautique basé à l'EuroAirport de Bâle-Mulhouse, qui s'apprête à supprimer près de...

After eight seasons and several hundred brilliant diagnoses, there's no more "House." And though Dr. Gregory House was cantankerous and arrogant and made his own share of enemies, the end of the series brought out its fair share of tears both off-screen and on. Around 8.7 million viewers tuned in for "House's" final hurrah, up from the season average, which means many former fans returned just ...

People incapable of reading and writing will have access to text messages from now on. A system using vocal synthesis, icons and contact management allows people to send and read text messages by those normally unable to read and write. It is already being used in Switzerland.

Amr Moussa (75):a former Egyptian diplomat who served in mis- sions in Switzerland, India and the UN and held the position of foreign minister from 1991-2001. He became popular in Egypt and the wider Arab world because of his criticism of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians. During 2000, a song entitled I Hate Israel with the refrain, “I love Amr Moussa” became a hit in Egypt, apparent...

Historic decision hands over a huge natural wonder about one-and-a-half times the size of Switzerland.

LIBERTAS FOUNDER Declan Ganley has denied that his stance on the fiscal treaty referendum and his position with an asset management company in Switzerland represented a “potential conflict of interest”.

A dramatic mountainside collapse in Switzerland which sent a huge volume of rock sliding into a valley below has been captured on video.

CHARLIE WYETT visits Schaffhausen in Switzerland where Di Matteo first played

CHARLIE WYETT visits Schaffhausen in Switzerland where Di Matteo first played

Jewel that began 400-year journey through European royalty in the crown of Henri IV's second wife Maria Médicis sold for double the expected priceAs soon as she set eyes on the Beau Sancy diamond, Marie de Médicis, wife of the French king Henri IV, knew she wanted it, and she nagged her wayward husband until he bought it for her.It was to bring neither of them great pleasure. In 1610, a day aft...

A PROFESSIONAL soccer player in Switzerland was suspended for eight games yesterday for slapping a ball boy following a loss earlier this month.

A 35-carat diamond passed among Europe's royalty for four centuries, the Beau Sancy, sells for twice its reserve at auction in Switzerland.

La société de maintenance d'avions Lufthansa Technik Switzerland (LTSW),...

By Mo Costandi of Nature magazineEuropean researchers have identified a gene that is linked to improved memory, but also to increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Dominique de Quervain of the University of Basel in Switzerland and his colleagues recruited around 700 healthy young volunteers, obtaining DNA samples from them to analyze the sequence of their PRKCA gene. [Mor...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Andrew I-Jen Chen swapped a career crunching numbers at French bank BNP Paribas to take up an apprenticeship at one of Switzerland's most prestigious watchmaking...

Top Gear's honoured with a special award at the Rose D'or Festival in Switzerland and The Dictator hits London plus the rest of the day's Entertainment headlines.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson collects the Honorary Rose Award at the Rose D'Or Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland

Will Michele Bachmann wear the Swiss and American flags on her lapel now? Bachmann is, a citizen of the world now — after becoming Swiss as well as American on March 29, thanks to her husband’s Swiss heritage. That means, yes, she can run for office in Switzerland if she moves to there and meets its residency requirement. Read full article >>

Captain comes through in the clutch at the IIHF World Hockey Championship

Fond of saying she’s proud to be American, former presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann also frequently has spoken of her family’s Norwegian ancestry

Minnesota congresswoman and former US presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is now a dual citizen of Switzerland and the US.

The dolphins, called Shadow and Chelmers, died within five days of each other at Connyland zoo in Switzerland last November. Bosses at the park in Lipperswil had rented land near the dolphins' training pool to rave organisers

What is patient empowerment? Over 250 participants discussed this question at the first European Conference on Patient Empowerment, recently held in Copenhagen, Denmark, by the European Network on Patient Empowerment ( ENOPE 2012). The conference was convened under the auspices of the Danish Presidency of the European Union (EU), and organised by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Denmark's Mi...

ST GALLEN, Switzerland, May 4 (Reuters) - Mining companies will fight growing resource nationalism and could pull out of countries where governments are demanding too large a share of the pie,...

Switzerland must shed its role as a bank haven for tax cheats and end disputes with foreign tax authorities, the chairman of the country's biggest bank UBS said today.

The tale of Heidi has appealed to children for over 100 years. With his five-year-old daughter learning to read, David Atkinson takes his family in search of the Swiss scene of the story.

India and Switzerland have agreed on a more liberal interpretation of the identity rules under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement.

Former SNC-Lavalin executive Riadh Ben Aissa has been arrested in Switzerland, according to reports

The former Liverpool boss has previous experience at international level after spells with Switzerland, UAE and Finland.

French law bans candidates from receiving cash payments above £6,300, but a news website claimed that the massive donation was laundered through bank accounts in Panama and Switzerland.

At least five people killed when small aircraft crashed near the city of Friburg, police say.

Jonathan Hivert of France was strongest on an uphill finish to the third stage of the Tour de Romandie in Switzerland, and Bradley Wiggins of Britain retained the overall lead.

Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins won the first road stage of the Tour de Romandie and claimed the race lead as Team Sky secured a second successive victory in Switzerland.

Nature480, 490–495 (2011)In the original version of this Article Erik van Nimwegen (Biozentrum of the University of Basel and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, CH 4056 Basel, Switzerland) was inadvertently omitted from the author list. In the ‘Author contribution’ section the

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars....

The Internet was awarded its own Hall of Fame on Monday — with a slew of inductees that have had a profound impact on the early stages of the we…

Switzerland has not fully implemented the EU package of sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

redletterdave writes with an amusing tale of missent email. From the article: "On Friday, more than 1,300 employees of London-based Aviva Investors walked into their offices, strolled over to their desks, booted up their computers and checked their emails, only to learn the shocking news: They would be leaving the company. The email ordered them to hand over company property and security passes...

GENEVA FIFA is planning to build a football museum including 3D animations, interactive games, trophies and “everything a football fan could wish for” as part of an extension to its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. “It is high time that world football had a meeting place for its millions of fans,” FIFA president Joseph Blatter was quoted as saying by ...

GENEVA FIFA is planning to build a football museum including 3D animations, interactive games, trophies and “everything a football fan could wish for” as part of an extension to its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. “It is high time that world football had a meeting place for its millions of fans,” FIFA president Joseph Blatter was quoted as saying by ...

GENEVA FIFA is planning to build a football museum including 3D animations, interactive games, trophies and “everything a football fan could wish for” as part of an extension to its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. “It is high time that world football had a meeting place for its millions of fans,” FIFA president Joseph Blatter was quoted as saying by ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it had raised $320 billion so far in a bid to boost its firepower to deal with the euro zone debt crisis, with Poland and Switzerland joining the effort.

Switzerland extends some sanctions against Iran, but will not freeze Iran's central bank's assets.

Dear Friends, I would like to share with you an anecdote of a man I know, who repairs watches. One day a watch came to him for repair during which he noticed a manufacturing defect. He then wrote a letter to the watch manufacturing company based in Switzerland pointing out a defect in the design of their product. As it turned out, the points raised by this man proved to be correct and the comp...

The government’s clampdown will turn Switzerland into one of the most exacting jurisdictions in the world to run a hedge fund

The magazine, Die Weltwoche, aimed to draw attention to what it presented as a scourge of robberies in Switzerland with a photo of a boy pointing a gun and the headline "The Roma are coming."

Police from Serbia and Switzerland have recovered a Paul Cezanne masterpiece that was stolen from a Swiss museum in 2008 and captured four men as they were trying to sell it, officials said Thursday.

The U.S. team got off to a predictably strong start with an 11-0 victory against Finland in the quarterfinals of the Women's World Ice Hockey Championships in Burlington, Vermont on April 10. Kelli Stack and Monique Lamoreux-Kolls each recorded hat tricks and Stack also added three assists. The U.S. outshot the Finns, 54-9, including 25-2 alone in the second period. The U.S. squad has already w...

Soccer:The Republic of Ireland have climbed another rung in the latest Fifa world rankings ladder, joining Switzerland in joint 18th place. Despite not having played a game since the previous rankings were issued on March 7th, the mathematical intricacies of the rankings system has seen Ireland reach their highest spot since the summer of 2005.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will leave New York tomorrow for a trip to Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg, where he will meet with United Nations, European Union and national government officials, his spokesperson announced today.

Banerjee is off to CTO of the Swiss Industrial giant ABB.

BERLIN (AP) -- Switzerland has agreed to a new tough bilateral tax evasion treaty that is expected to bring Berlin's state coffers some (EURO)10 billion ($13 billion) next year, Germany's Finance Ministry said....

At 17, Álvaro Martín is on the verge of a place in the Spanish Olympic team

BERLIN/ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has issued arrest warrants for three German civil servants, accusing them of industrial espionage for buying the bank details of German tax evaders, the finance ministry of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said on Saturday.

In our continuing review of Rogue Registrars we have stumbled upon on a very elaborate fake banking site for "Swiss Bank" or "Bank of Switzerland" (bankofswissltd[DOT]com). To the casual Internet consumer this site probably appears legitimate, but a number of clues tip off the fraud. Phishing sites are everywhere so this does not immediately raise eyebrows until you review the Thick WHOIS recor...

Israel has decided to suspend all working ties with the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, and will not cooperate with the council's plans for an investigation of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories, Israel's foreign ministry spokesman told CNN Monday.

The world’s top watch and jewellery fair, BaselWorld, just turned out in Basel, Switzerland. The fair offered accessories from diamond-laden watches to emerald necklaces, which are the most expensive luxury goods of the globe.

OSLO (Reuters) - Yara International , one of the world's largest fertiliser companies, said it had uncovered "unacceptable payments" at its joint venture in Switzerland after an external...

The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland confirmed on Friday that a Swiss woman had been kidnapped in Hodeida, a port city in western Yemen.

Belgium holds a national day of mourning today as the grief-stricken country prepares to receive the remains of the 28 people killed when their coach hit a tunnel wall in Switzerland.

Belgium holds a national day of mourning today as the grief-stricken country prepares to receive the remains of the 28 people killed when their coach hit a tunnel wall in Switzerland.

TRAGIC scenes as coffins of the dead children are taken home from Switzerland

The leadership of the NAACP is in Switzerland pressing a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council for help on pushing voting right ...

Release Time:  For Immediate Release The President sends his deepest condolences to the victims and their families of last night’s bus accident in Switzerland.  The loss of so many young lives is especially heartbreaking.  Our thoughts and prayers are with the Belgian communities of Lommel and Heverlee and all the people of Belgiu...

Reports have questioned the value of funding Thorpe's comeback ambitions, which has entailed providing individualized training overseas in Switzerland and the Middle East.

A bus crash Tuesday night in Valais, southern Switzerland, left 28 people dead — 22 of them children, the Associated Press reports.The schoolchildren were returning from a ski vacation when the bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps. Twenty-four children have been hospitalized. Read full article >>

TWENTY-two children and six adults killed in a bus crash in the south of Switzerland as they were returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday.

BASEL, Switzerland, March 14 (Reuters) - German fashion house Hugo Boss said sales growth would slow in 2012, after a record year driven by demand from Asian consumers seeking European luxury names.

GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (AP) -- Canadian racer Nick Zoricic died from head injuries after crashing in a World Cup skicross event on Saturday, the International Ski Federation said.

LA CHAUX-de-FONDS, Switzerland — Louis-Joseph Chevrolet, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Co., now the largest division of the world’s largest automobile manufacturer, General Motors, was a local boy. Read full article >>

As well as getting better treatment than full taxpayers, dodgers were also given time to move their assets elsewhere, MPs have complained.

Switzerland moves closer towards enforcing higher rates of tax on the country's 5,000 wealthiest foreign residents.

Last night Calvin Ayre broke the news that the domain name Bodog.com had been seized by the federal government. Today the Feds broke the news to Mr. Ayre that he has been indicted along with three others described by the Feds as the “owners or operators of the site, Calvin Ayre, James Philip, David Ferguson and Derrick Maloney.” Ayre is accused of operating an illegal gambling business involvin...

Ben took Lindzi, Courtney and Nicki to Switzerland for overnight dates. And Kacie B. showed up out of the blue. Awkward! Who's left?

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, was well under way when it officially commenced, early on a Wednesday evening in January, with an address, in the Congress Hall of the Congress Center, by Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany. She had a lot to say . . .

From Science Insider, there is a possible explanation for the recently observed "faster than light" neutrinos. The Neutrinos were clocked at faster-than-light speeds on their way form CRN in Switzerland to a detectors site in Italy. I had originally proposed that the neutrinos were merely very hungry but unwilling to eat Swiss food, and since they were on their way to Italy, why not go FTL? ...

Star midfielder for African champions Esperance and for Tunisia, Oussama Darragi, to move to FC Sion of Switzerland.

Italian police today seized $6 trillion in phony 1934 U.S. bonds that had been kept in bogus Federal Reserve security boxes in Switzerland.

Italian police said they had seized counterfeit U.S. bonds with a face value of $6 trillion held in Switzerland, in what prosecutors called the largest operation of its kind.

MOTO GP star Casey Stoner and wife Adriana are proud parents of a baby girl born overnight in Switzerland.

No one who’s been to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and who’s honest will say that it’s worthwhile in the way the Forum has intended it.

Lindsey Vonn takes us on a training run at St. Moritz, Switzerland, where she won two World Cup races last weekend.

ST MORITZ, Switzerland (Reuters) - World Cup holder Maria Hoefl-Riesch took her first victory of the Alpine ski season in a women's super-combined on Sunday to deny Lindsey Vonn a triple triumph and 50th career win.

The alpine city of Davos, Switzerland, may seem an odd venue for alerting Canadians that Ottawa might make some wait longer for social-security entitlements, but Stephen Harper chose the location with careful purpose

US authorities’ enduring dispute with Switzerland over bank secrecy has led to the private bank selling much of its business to Raiffeisen

Talented workers are hard to find despite high levels of unemployment worldwide, says Valerie Germain, managing partner of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. “There is still very much a war for talent,” says Germain on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Employers are seeking very specific skills right [...]

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Business and social media leaders teamed up Friday to tackle the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, saying the medicine and the money are largely in place, and with the right organizational skills they can eliminate HIV-infected births by 2015....

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- The founder of Wikipedia hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt U.S. legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy, saying the proposed bills needed to be stopped because they were flawed....

Dell (DELL) Chief Executive Michael Dell is confident in his company’s long-term prospects and says it will continue to buy back its stock. “I think we will continue to grow our earnings,” says Dell on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum taking place in Davos, Switzerland. “I have been doing this for 28 years [...]

Ottawa (ots/PRNewswire) - ? Instead of boasting about Canada's success in avoiding much of the impacts of the recent global economic downturn at this week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Stephen Harper should be sharing with them a ground-breaking ...

Occupy movement protesters planned an igloo village near the Congress Center building in Davos, where nearly 3,000 representatives from more than 100 countries are expected.

President Jacob Zuma is in for a busy few weeks as he leaves for Qatar on Monday to strengthen political and economic relations between the countries.

Experts meet in Switzerland to decide whether to alter the world's timekeeping by abolishing the leap second.

Pakistan's embattled prime minister is not guilty of contempt of court but should bow to pressure and ask Switzerland to reopen graft cases against the president, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The 38-year-old picked a sheer black dress to attend an event in Geneva, Switzerland.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Private investment funds Terra Nex of Switzerland and Germany's Middle East Best Select (MEBS) plan to build 400 megawatts (MW) of solar power generating capacity in Oman, the European investors said on Sunday.

Philippine tourism officials are defending a new marketing campaign from criticism that it copied a slogan used by Switzerland in 1951.

Sion start legal proceedings against members of Fifa's executive committee over governing body's threat to suspend Switzerland from world football.

Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland demonstrate a wheelchair that uses “shared control” to navigate.

The deal is the first major step in the chief executive’s plan to unload slow-growing European operations to focus on faster-growing markets.

TOKYO — FIFA has threatened to suspend Switzerland from world soccer if its national association does not discipline litigious club FC Sion by Jan. 13. If the suspension took effect, Swiss champion FC Basel would be prevented from playing Bayern Munich in the Champions League round of 16 in February. Basel advanced ahead of Manchester United, which would logically be reinstated. Read full artic...

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ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has added 116 names to its list of Iranian entities under sanctions, in response to heightened international concern about Tehran's nuclear ambitions.The 35-nation board of the UN. nuclear watchdog looked set on Friday to censure Iran over mounting suspicions it is seeking to develop atom bombs.Last week's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report presented...

The western corn rootworm represents a formidable pest. But what is the cause of its voracity? Biologists in Switzerland have put forth an explanation. The western corn rootworm larvae exploit the plant’s natural defences, which are supposed to deter them, to their benefit by using them to locate nutrient rich plant parts.

Mike Peters waxes lyrical about the pleasures of Lanzhou and southern Gansu as he stops to smell the flowers and discover a little piece of Switzerland in China.

Do those with more testosterone coursing through their bodies make riskier, more aggressive decisions? Popular culture and even rodent studies seem to have borne out this trite truism about the sex hormone , but researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. tested whether this perception really held true for humans in a controlled environment--and arrived at counter-intuitive findings. [More] ...

In the age of cyberwarfare, even Switzerland's neutrality is not a given. Neutral or not, they'll still be attacked:  BERN, Switzerland - The Swiss Foreign Ministry says it was the victim of a "professional" cyber attack aimed at obtaining information from its computer network.Spokesman Georg Farago says the ministry cut the connection between its network and the Internet after the attack was d...