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Swiss Attoey General Michael Lauber (centre) in a file photo Keystone / Peter Klaunzer Swiss Attoey General Michael Lauber - facing impeachment proceedings over his handling of a ...

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 ...

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...

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

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,...

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,...

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In March 2014, Greenpeace activists temporarily occupied the Beznau nuclear power plant site to demand its closure.(Keystone / U...

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

Mark Zuckerberg appearing before the US Congress hearing into Libra.(Keystone / Michael Reynolds) Mark Zuckerberg testi...

Young people below the age of 18 get a chance to make decisions at the Kloten cantonal assembly.(swissinfo.ch) With mor...

For the mobile Swiss community, should official voting materials be issued in English, too?As part of our series of roundtable discussions in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Octobere...

Could Facebook's Libra become more popular than the original cryptocurrency bitcoin? (Keystone / Oliver Berg) ...

In 2017, a total of 2,404toes of gold were imported to Switzerland, with a value of about CHF70 billion (Keystone) Most of the gold in the world passes through Switzerland. This is a business...

While thesefoot-shaped plates helped women cross gratingsoutside a German department store in the 1960s, women at the SBC were asked to leave high-heeled shoes at home (Keystone) Since its cre...

Jalal did not want to have his identity disclosed out of security conces for relatives who arestill in Syria. (swissinfo.ch) Jalal last saw his youngest son was when the boy was a baby. Now H...

What do foreignbanks in the City of London need to consider? (EPA FILE) The UK’s financial regulator has urged a group of inteational banks in the City of London to limit the number of client...

(swissinfo.ch) Today, on World Radio Day, we celebrate the power of radio and its role in bringing people together.It is also an occasion to look back at how swissinfo.ch began... with radio.Begiing in 1935, special programmes for the Swiss abroad were broadcast over short wave.In 1939, the Short Wave Service got its own antea, located at Schwarzenberg in canton Be.Here is a sample programme from May 3, 1949, witha speech in Switzerland byIndian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. And in thisinterview from 1958, we hear from legendary jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong in relaxed mood. In 1978, the Short Wave Servicewas ren...

An Egyptian soldier guards the Luxor temple.(Keystone) Switzerland has one of the most generous, state-funded victim support services in the world. However, it doesn’t benefit everyone: Swiss people who live abroad and their relatives – as well as Swiss tourists – who are victims of crime are falling through the net.While assistance to victims in Germany, for example, is almost entirely dependent on donations, the system in Switzerland has been a public institution for the past 25 years.Victims of a criminal offence in Switzerland are supported in three ways, according to the so-called three-pillar modelexteal link. Not only do they rece...

At 91, she's the oldest elected politician in Switzerland: Marlies Näf-Hofma from Arbon in canton Thurgau. And she's still going strong. Swiss Public Television, SRF looks back at an often controversial political career. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)She represents the Christian Democratic Partyin the Arbon city parliamentexteal link, where she campaigns on behalf of the elderly, in particular. But she has changed her political allegiances several times.For 20 years, Näf-Hofmaexteal link worked as a lawyer for the the right-wingconservativeSwiss People's Party on the cantonal council of Thurgau, and was party member for 50 years. After a brief stint with the Green Liberals, the lawyer joined the city pa...