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A sign shows the closed campus of Fullerton College in Fullerton, Califoia USA, 17 July 2020. Keystone / Eugene Garcia This content was published on July 24, 2020 - 11:00 July 24, 2020...

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

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...

The Palais des Nations in Geneva was built between 1929 and 1936 to house the League of Nations, which was increasingly und...

The Mühleberg nuclear power plant  as seen on Friday, shortly before it was shut down(Keystone / Anthony Anex) ...

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...

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%...

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

Women candidates from the Green Party celebrate their victories(Keystone / Eddy Risch) From massive shifts in party pow...

Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, the new Swiss Nobels, pictured in 2005.(Keystone / Laurent Gillieron) Swiss scientists ...

Meat may be a delicious staple for most Swiss but it is not so good for the climate.(Keystone) The latest UN climate re...

The Alpine Initiative won surprise support from voters who wanted to shift freight transport through the Alps from road to rail.(© Keys...

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...

Buildings destroyed during the fighting in the northe town of Ariha, in Idlib province, Syria (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) “It is really playing with a gigantic p...

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...

This content was published on April 14, 2018 11:00 AMApr 14, 2018 - 11:00 You don't necessarily have to havesnow to race down the slopes on skis–grass skiing on green pastures can besimilarly exhilarating.The best in the world glide across the meadows at a speed of 90 kilometres per hour, on specialskis, which havegrooves like tr...

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...

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...

Tim Guldima, parliamentarian and former Swiss Ambassador to Germany.(Keystone) Independent media is of utmost importance for Swiss democracy, writes Tim Guldima. For the social democrat parliamentarian and former Swiss ambassador to Germany, the initiative to do away with the radio and TV licence fee threatens access to objective and impartial information. point of view point of view I have always been critical towards my country. But the more time I spend outside its borders, the more I appreciate Switzerland. Abroad, especially during the 13 years I spent in Germany, I saw that many things d...