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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Parliamentarian Claudio Zanetti is in favour of the 'No Billag' initiative.(Ex-press) Parliamentarian Claudio Zanetti represents the People’s Party on the board of the Organisation of Swiss Abroad (OSA). But while the OSA has come out against the ‘No Billag’ initiative, Zanetti supports it. Those who don’t pay the licence fee should keep quiet about it, he writes. point of view point of view Swiss citizens living abroad are happy to watch programmes made by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). They thus show their attachment to their homeland, which is rather nice, and a cause for celebra...

Undocumented or not? Schools make no difference(Keystone) A group of right-leaning politicians in Switzerland is calling for schools to inform the authorities if they have illegal immigrants amongtheir pupils. The move is causing consteation, not only among teaching staff.The House of Representatives’ Social Security and Health Committeeexteal link submitted a motionexteal link at the end of January calling for “facilitating the exchange of information between state bodies for people whose residency status is not settled (for example, for education…)”.Committee member Raymond Clottu told public service radio RTSexteal link on Monday that...

caption-test no caption Over a thousand opponents of the "No Billag" initiative gathered at the parliament square on January 31(Keystone) The No Billag initiative, which seeks to abolish the licence fee used to finance public radio and television, is supported by a relatively small number of parties and organisations. The main official supporters include the Swiss People’s Party and the Swiss Arts and Crafts Union. Most other parties and organisations advocate rejecting the initiative. (swissinfo.ch) Political parties in favourSwiss People...

The UBS Optimus Foundation invested in a DIB to help girls attend school in rural India and improve educational performance(swissinfo.ch) Money to help lift the most-disadvantaged out of misery is drying up, while at the same time private investors are looking for new opportunities in a zero-interest environment. Switzerland is well poised to assume a leadership role in linking the two.It is nearing 9am in Zurich and a conference hall located 100 metres from the square, Paradeplatz, the very heart of the city’s financial district, is packed. Over a hundred representatives from development agencies, academia, as well as a smattering of pr...

Getting rid of rubbish isn't just a cosmetic issue: it's can be aserious strategic challenge forcity authorities.(Keystone) If you think Swiss streets are clean, meet the digital system that could make them even cleaner by counting and categorising different types of trash, paving the road for cheaper and more efficient urban sanitation both in Switzerland and abroad.Even instereotypically tidy Switzerland, managing urban waste is not just a logistical burden – it’s also a strategic challenge. In the absence of a standard measure of cleanliness, Swiss cities must each work out their own approach to deciding how much time and money to inv...

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 become impossible for the financial establishment to ignore, despite its denunciations of bitcoin in particular as “a fraud”, “index of money-laundering” and worse.“We are sitting down around this tab...

A demonstrator calls for the child protection authorities to be stripped of their powers following the case of a mother who killed her two children to stop them being retued to care. She later killed herself in jail.(Eio Leanza/KEYSTONE) Child protection authorities are among the most unpopularinstitutions in Switzerland, even after recent reforms. Why the backlash?Overshadowed by the dark past of so-called "slave children", Swiss child protective services were subject tosweeping changes in 2013. But their reputation has continued to suffer after a series of incidents, notably a mother who killed her two children to stop them from being ...

This week, theSwiss resort towns of Andermatt, Zermatt and Davos haveall seenrecord or near-record snow levels. But it's an outlier in a years-long trend of declining snowfall totals. 2012was the last time in the past decade that so much snow fell in a single day. In Davos and Zermatt, the snow level as of yesterday eclipsed that total. As a result, the whole area is on high alertexteal link for avalanches, and several towns have been cut off from transport networks. But on the whole, snowfall levels inall three resorts have been on the decline in the past several years, as the darker colours on thesegraphics show. graphic graphic Scenes from Val d'Aiviers in canton Valais, north...