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Some 700,000 people die every year from antimicrobial resistance. © Keystone / Gaetan Bally More than 20 major pharmaceutical companies are investing nearly $1 billion (CHF940 million) in ...

The case of Jean-Louis Jeanmaire shook Switzerland in the 1970s(Keystone / Str) As Switzerland reels fro...

Exactly 20 years ago, Hurricane Lothar knocked over more than ten million trees in Switzerland. Fourteen people died and the cost of the damage came to around CHF1.35 billion ($1.38 billion). However,...

Switzerland's seven cabinet members welcome the Indian president in September 2019. Foreign policy strategy aims to involve...

How will climate change affect Switzerland? Take a jouey into the future to see the possibilities. Interactive Interactive Neuer Inhalt Horizon...

Brainstorming: Participants must figure outxa0how to weave a narrative through a scientific idea. (Eleonora Aquilini/Exposure Science Film Hackathon) Participants in a unique ‘hackathon’-style eve...

Encrypted digital tokens, representing ownership rights to underlying securities, are being tipped to transform financial trading. (KEYSTONE/STEFFEN SCHMIDT) The Swiss stock exchange is just one...

Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council in session, January 2018. (© KEYSTONE / PETER KLAUNZER) On Wednesday, December 5, parliament meets to elect two new members of the seven-seat Federal C...

Rockslidesxa0around the Ochsenstock mountain in central Switzerland resulted in paths being closed in October. The hot summer melted the permafrost that usually binds the rocks together. (Keystone) ...

Here are some of the stories we'll be following the week of December 3. (© KEYSTONE / PETER KLAUNZER) Monday As Switzerland prepares to unveil the two newest members of its executive branch, who...

The author saved a month’s worth of plastic waste, pictured here. Less than half could be recycled.(swissinfo.ch) Switzerland consumes three times as much plastic as other European countries, but recycles 30% less. Bans on plastic in the EU and China may change that.xa0The Swiss appetite for plastic is cons...

This content was published on April 14, 2018 11:00 AMApr 14, 2018 - 11:00 You don't necessarily have to havexa0snow to race down the slopes on skisxa0–xa0grass skiing on green pastures can bexa0similarly exhilarating.xa0The best in the world glide across the meadows at a speed of 90 kilometres per hour, on specialxa0skis, which havexa0grooves like tr...

This content was published on March 3, 2018 2:00 PMMar 3, 2018 - 14:00 The possibility of using computers to count the votes of the Swiss population had been in discussion for some time before a large-scale experiment took place in a district of canton Zurich on February 1, 1970, with the help of the IBM Computer System/360.Although the...

IOC President Thomas Bach with representatives from South Korea andxa0North Korea's Olympic Committee President and sports minister Kim Il Guk (second from left) in Lausanne(Keystone) The Swiss-based Inteational Olympic Committee (IOC) says the Korean peninsula has a brighter future due to the North’s participation in the Winter Games. But analysts argue any such rapprochement between the North and South will be short-lived.xa0“The Olympic G...

Following the death of Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish fuiture retailer IKEA, a closer lookxa0at how his products influenced the way in which people live today in Switzerland.xa0(SRF/swissinfo.chexteal link)xa0For decades the Swedish businessman lived in Switzerland, where he benefited from lump-sum taxation.xa0He was one of the richest people in the world, and his family remains the wealthiest in Switzerland – as reported by Swiss business magazine Bilanz in November.xa0After Ingvar Kamp...

The blockchain has evolved alongside digital currencies stored there(Keystone) The world’s big financial institutions are wrestling with a cryptocurrency dilemma: whether to stand by and denounce a technology many distrust but also fear — or join those investing in it.After a surge in the combined market value of cryptocurrencies from less than $20bn to more than $540bn, the phenomenon — and the blockchain technology that underpins it — has ...

Multinational companies are being urged to contribute more to the battle against global warming at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.Christiana Figueresexteal link, former United Nation’s climate chief and now a leading light at the environmental NGO Mission 2020exteal link, said the world must start reversing the trend of rising CO2 emissions by 2020 and then halve greenhouse gases in each subsequent decade.Figueres is lobbying corporates and politicians at WEF to clean up thei...

"If Switzerland cannot say, 'under no circumstances will we use nuclear weapons', how can we expect North Korea to do that?"xa0This is the question posed byxa0Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winningxa0Inteational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weaponsexteal linkxa0(iCAN),xa0speaking to swissinfo.ch from the WEF annual meeting in Davos. For Fihn, it's high time that Switzerland signed and ratified the United Nations'xa0inteational nuclear disarmament treatyexteal link, ado...

'One is a lonely number': US president Donald Trump disembarking from Marine One in Davos.(Keystone) African delegates are planning to boycott United States President Donald Trump’s closing speech at the World Economic Forum’s flagship annual meeting in Davos on Friday. This follows leaks that he called African countries “shitholes” in a White House meeting on immigration this month.Trump arrivesxa0in Davos on Thursday where he will concentr...

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