The Swiss entry in a solar home-building contest isxa0a community centre (Keystone) A team involvingxa0hundreds of Swiss university students is stretching the rules of an American-led inte ational building competition to give communities a cool, energy-efficient place to hang out.xa0 The Swiss team

A colourful crowd with balloons, prams strolled through the streets of Be before they handed in signatures for their initiative for a statutory paid pate ity leavexa0 (Keystone) Swiss voters will have the chance to overtu parliament’s rejection of paid pate ity leave after campaigners figh

"I'm an online warrior,"xa0says 93-year-old Pierre Rom, and "I’m better at expressing myself in writing than out loud." (©Thomas Ke /swissinfo.ch) Pierre Romxa0is a sprightly 93-year-old who has joined a movement of politically engaged young people.xa0He is part of the “Army of comment-writers” tha

A new museum dedicated to the world of finance, combiningxa0multimedia installations and rare historical exhibits, has opened its doors in Zurich. It's the first of its kind in Switzerland. (SRF, swissinfo.ch) The Swiss Finance Museumexte al linkxa0is located in the new global head office of SIX, wh...

We er Bösch was the first person in Switzerland to grow CBD cannabis in indoor growing areas (Ester Unterfinger/swissinfo.ch) There’s decaffeinated coffee, alcohol-free beer, and now marijuana that doesn’t make you high. The product known as “cannabis light” or “CBD cannabis” is sold in many

Walter Thu herr speaks at a press conference in April. (Keystone) As Switzerland’s Federal Chancellor, Walter Thu herr has unique insights into the inner workings of the country’s gove ment. He shares how the seven-member cabinet prioritises issues and runs the country on a day-to-day basi

Helicopter spraying vineyards with pesticide - soon a picture from the past in Switzerland? (Keystone) In 2005, Swiss voters decided to ban the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the country’s farming industry. A group of citizens now wants to go even further by banning the use of

A family member of missing persons waits for body bags in Merdare, 40 km (25 miles) north of the Kosovo's capital Pristina , on June 30,xa02006 (Keystone) A two-day conference this week in Geneva aims to relaunch the process of identifying 1,658 people who disappeared during the war in Kosovo (1

Tama Vakeesan was bo in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. Both she and her friend Aceko, who’s from Cameroon, had trouble convincing their parents to support their career choices. Aceko succesfully switched from banking to professional dancing, and went on to winxa0the “Red Bull Beat It...

The controversy over employees at an insurance company call centre adopting fake Swiss names instead of foreign ones has put the issue of su ames and nationality in the spotlight.xa0 A recent news report revealed that Swiss Life allows staff to adopt a common Swiss su ame, rather than use their own

In Switzerland, women have been doing military service on a voluntary basis. (Keystone) In the future, women could be called up to serve in the Swiss army or civil protection service alongside men. On Wednesday, the gove ment announced a plan to carefully examine future recruitment needs and

The Petya ransomware attackers demanded 300 bitcoins to decrypt victims' data (Virus Guides/YouTube) The recent Petya ransomware attack, which centered on Ukraine, has highlighted the growing global cyber threat. Swiss scientists have developed new defences to protect both businesses and indiv

Huldrychxa0Zwingli: priest, theologian, reformer... and seducer (Hans Asper/akg-images) As a candidate for the priesthood at Zurich's Grossmünster, Huldrych Zwingli is on the verge of a decisive career step. But on December 3, 1518, in the middle of the selection process, his friend Oswald Mycon

Bon pour la tête launched last week after a successful crowd-funding campaign. (Keystone) As media habits shift in Switzerland, new projects are emerging to complement traditional publications. One of them launched last week. Zeynep Ersan Berdoz is full of energy. When swissinfo.ch meets the p

Here are some of the stories we will feature in the week beginning June 26. (Hans Asper/akg-images) Monday: Huldrych Zwingli, a key figure in the Protestant Reformation movement in Zurich and Switzerland, is presented in a different light. The latest in series of reports on the 500th anniversa

We follow a refugee from Zimbabwe getting his first taste of Swiss university life through a new "discovery semester" offering.xa0 'Discovery semester' Refugees get a taste of Swiss university life Swiss universities have found ways for refugees to attend on a trial basis, but ea ing a diploma

Jun 24, 2017 - 11:00In April 2013, Swiss photographers Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato, who have worked together for more than 12 years, jumped into an old Land Cruiser and headed east. They had a rough route and stops in mind, with the final destination being Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.xa0 I...

June 22 marks the official opening of the Tamina Bridge, the highestxa0in Europe,xa0connectingxa0the Swiss villages of Pfäfers and Valens in canton St Gallen. (SRF/swisisnfo.ch) The two-lane asymmetrical concrete arch towers 200 metres abovexa0the valley. The 417-metre-long bridgexa0took fivexa0year...

Global warming naturally comes to mind as a topic for reflection while Switzerland swelters in a Europe-wide heatwave. To help inform our thinking about this, swissinfo.ch compiledxa0more than 150 years of Swiss temperature data in graphics. It illustrates both the changing climate and hotter temper...

Some people will go an awfully long way to yodel: the “Wildrose” yodel club, for example, has come all the way from Canada to take part in this weekend’s Federal Yodelling Festival in Brig-Glis, canton Valais. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.chexte al link) The Wildrose club was formed in Alberta 20 years a