
Like every other media website our homepage is dominated by scary headlines about the coronavirus. But it tus out there is some good in all this craziness!The coronavirus pandemic has had ...
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Producing for diverse audiences is part of the job at an inteational broadcaster(Keystone / Salvatore Di Nolfi) ...
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The aual photo of the Swiss Federal Council for 2020, with federal chancellor Walter Thuherr on the far left(Swiss Fede...
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Switzerland will only stump up cohesion contribution if it no longer feels discriminated against by the EU.(sda-ats) ...
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The stand of the Biel-based brand Milus at the last Baselworld watch fair in March 2019.(Keystone / Georgios Kefalas) ...
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Britain and the EU: hardly leaving at greyhound pace.(Associated Press) Three years after voting to leav...
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Most people in Switzerland would support a ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems, for example, drones that can shoot people.A poll commissioned by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots showed that 72%...
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A motorway underpass means the gutting of this district in Zurich and the loss of more affordable apartments.(© Keystone / Gaetan Bally)...
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TechFace organised a speed interviewing and mingling event in Zurich to help coect female talent with Swiss tech companies.&...
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A 'drone marshal' in action during a race by Lake Zurich in October 2018(Keystone) Francesco Bortoluzzi of the swi...
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Inebriated policemen discussing “dynamiters" and “anarchist bombers” over a few drinks in a cartoon.(zvg) These a...
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The chief animator of the hit film trilogy “How to train your Dragon” is Swiss. Simon Otto, who has lived in the United States for 21 years, comes from St Gallen in easte Switz...
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China Is leading the world towardsan electric car future (Robyn Beck / AFP) Switzerland has a new strategy to promote greater use of electric vehicles, but the Alpine nation remains far behind ...
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Brainstorming: Participants must figure outhow to weave a narrative through a scientific idea. (Eleonora Aquilini/Exposure Science Film Hackathon) Participants in a unique ‘hackathon’-style eve...
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US President Donald Trumpat the WEF Congress Center on January 25, 2018 (© KEYSTONE / LAURENT GILLIERON) United States President Donald Trump will attend the aual meeting of the World Economi...
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Lake Brenets in the canton of Neuchâtel during the exceptional drought that hit Switzerland in the summer of this year. (KEYSTONE / ANTHONY ANEX) Over 40°C in the cities, long periods of drought...
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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.The Swiss appetite for plastic is cons...
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Orphans eatlunchin Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.More than four million children have lost at least one parent in Congo over the past two decades(Keystone) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has boycotted a United Nations conference in Geneva that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars to help...
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The Davos sledge has become a part of Swiss heritage(Adrian Moser) The small wooden sledges were originally intended for transporting goods until a carpenter launched the “Davos sports sledge”. The museum-piece mode of transport has since been a fundamental part of Swiss wintertime and carpenters like Paul Burri are keeping the tradition alive.It gets quite cramped in Paul Burri’s small carpentry workshop in Lohnstorf, canton Be, at the start of winter. Everything is geared towards one thing – sledges. Sawn wooden parts lie ready in one coer. In another, finished sledges are stacked almost up to the ceiling. Outside, the little street wh...
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Following the death of Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish fuiture retailer IKEA, a closer lookat how his products influenced the way in which people live today in Switzerland.(SRF/swissinfo.chexteal link)For decades the Swedish businessman lived in Switzerland, where he benefited from lump-sum taxation.He 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.After Ingvar Kamprad retued to Sweden, his sons Peter, Jonas and Mathias continued to run the business from Switzerland.At IKEA, Kampradremained steadfast in his goal of bringing quality products to people of limited means. "A beaut...
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