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A bicycle courier brings food to people in lockdown during the Covid-19 outbreak in Lausanne, Switzerland Keystone / Laurent Gillieron The so-called “gig economy” has taken off around the ...

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 ...

American Christine Worrell, a Swiss resident, has experienced discrimination in both countries she’s called home. She lays out the origins and manifestations of the problem in both places, arguing tha...

All of a sudden, everyone is talking about it: the 2019 Nobel Prize won by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz has reminded the Swiss that the country’s astrophysicists are at the forefront of the hunt for...

In this episode of Inside Geneva,exteal link we go behind the scenes at the world's most important gathering on human rights, now underway in Geneva.It's the UN Human Rights Council, where...

Switzerland is one of the ten countries most affected by the coronavirus worldwide, with more than 200 current cases and one confirmed death. Here is an overview of the situation and official res...

An exhibition of René Burri's more explorative work showcases the Swiss photojoualist’s obsession with pushing the boundaries of photography. Since 2013, the Musée de l'Elysée’s René Burri's pr...

Gredig wants to defend the interest of future generations in parliament.(Thomas Ke/swissinfo.ch) Switz...

(Keystone) Here’s a look back at some memorable statistics from swissinfo.ch stories over the past year,...

How much do “ordinary” Swiss ea, how much money do they spend, and what does it go on? Money diaries gives us an insight. The average gross wage for a full-time job in Switzerland is CHF6,...

A Candlemas procession in Lugano, canton Ticino, in February(© Ti-press) Although Christianity domi...

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

Children line up at the Swiss school in Mexico ahead of a ministerial visit in 2018(educationsuisse) Is ...

(Reuters / Wikimedia / Keystone ) A decade ago, a majority of Swiss voters backed a people’s initiative ...

Britain and the EU: hardly leaving at greyhound pace.(Associated Press) Three years after voting to leav...

Patek Philippe's steel Grandmaster Chime comes with a reversible dial plate, which can be seen here(Christie's) ...

All the votes are counted and the last seats in the Swiss parliament been allocated. (Keystone / Peter Klaunzer) ...

The entrance of the Palais des Nations, the UN's European headquarters in Geneva(United Nations Photo) ...

Ueli Maurer reviews guards during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 29(Keystone /...

(Keystone / Ao Balzarini) There are people in the Alps who have mastered the balance between life in the mountains, a...