Tick bites can cause serious illnesses(Keystone)There are more ticksxa0around already this season in Switzerland than usual. Where do you need to look out for them and what should you do while you’re visiting the country?Why are there more ticks around

Trump's famous reality TV one-liner took on new meaning when he firedxa0FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday(Keystone)If there has been one consistent feature of US President Donald Trump’s time in office so far, it has been inconsistencies. The firing

American author Anne Korkeakivi, who has lived abroad for most of her life, now calls Geneva home(Clare O’Dea)As much at home in the outdoors as in the city, American author Anne Korkeakivi has found the perfect mix in Geneva. She talks about her two

The Swiss are mou ing the loss of one of their greatest sports heroes, speed climber Ueli Steck, who died on Sunday in the Himalaya. (SRF/swissinfo.chexte al link)Steck, dubbed the “Swiss Machine”, was 40 and one of the most celebrated climbers of his generation. He was killed after falling about 10...

Ueli Steck, 1976-2017(AFP)With records as a solo and speed climber, the Swiss top alpinist made himself immortal. But that’s not what drove Ueli Steck. His life was a masterpiece of physical engineering – and he demonstrated this with Swiss precision.Ueli Steck, who had a fatal accident during a tra...

Germany's energy supply is reliant on coal, the worst of all greenhouse gas emittersxa0(Keystone)As Switzerland braces itself for yet another heated debate on its energy future, what is happening to the revolution begun by its northe neighbour?Germany’s historic 2011 decision to close all nuclear po...

Tens of thousands of protesters against Trump tu out in Washington, DC in April(Keystone)When the first 100 days of an incoming US president come to completion, it is normally the hour of political scientists or economists, not of ethicists.By Florian WettsteinBut Donald Trump’s is no normal preside...

A volunteer hands out clean injection equipment to a drug user in Thailand as part of a community-based project(Trinn Suwannapha / World Bank via Flickr Creative Commons)Former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss, founder and president of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, recently retu ed from a trip ...

Apr 29, 2017 - 11:00All year round Geneva’s convention and exhibition centre hosts fairs and events of all sorts. Geneva photographer Olivier Vogelsang has recently published a series of previously undisclosed pictures taken from the different scenes and in the corridors of Palexpo.xa0He began his r...

Tama Vakeesan was bo in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. Tama and her best friends, who are Kurdish and Bosnian, are all single. They say their perfect man would be Swiss bo but must speak their language, practice their religion, share their food preferences and like their music. It's ...

Part of the city's appeal: relaxing on the banks of the Rhine(Keystone)Two expats living in Basel tell us why they think the Swiss city deserves to rub shoulders with Zurich, Sydney and Vancouver in the rankings for the world’s best places to live. xa0 xa0 xa0 xa0 xa0Basel was ranked joint tenth wit...

Inauguration of the Mont-Soleil solar power station in 1992(Keystone)On April 28, 1992, the first solar power station in Switzerland, the largest in Europe at the time, was inaugurated on the aptly named Mont-Soleil mountain. Twenty-five years on, solar power has made significant strides but is stil...

Abdurahman Mohamad Mah arrived in Switzerland as a refugee at the age of six. Now he is a neurobiologist. This is his story.Abdu’s father was the Interior Minister of Somalia when there was a military coup and he was forced to flee with his wife and ten children. (Abdu is the eighth child). His moth...

In the mountains of easte Switzerland, students at an inte ational boarding school are lea ing about science by doing it themselves...for real.Let's block ads! (Why?)

Judaism is a non-Christian religion which has long been recognised officially in Switzerland.(Keystone)A multicultural society is often a multi-religious one. How can Switzerland best manage its growing diversity and the frictions which can arise? We speak with a legal specialist about religious rec...

Lake Geneva is one of the Swiss regions favoured by the rich(Keystone)Switzerland has the highest density of millionaires in the world. This is not something to be proud of, says one Swiss sociologist.xa0Professor Ueli Mäder has devoted almost his entire career to the study of wealth. Not because he...

Two tourists from Saudi Arabia have a break in Interlaken in October 2016(Keystone)swissinfo.ch readers have been holding a lively debate over whether direct democracy leads to a majority of society tyrannising religious minorities.An article published by swissinfo.chexte al link on Wednesday, whic

An EU-funded project to develop a tool to spot false information online has made “a lot of progress”, but the technology still has a way to go. swissinfo.chexte al link is a partner in the project, which has just come to an end.xa0Many fake news stories that are compelling to click on and have a rin...

Switzerland will produce more secure, cleaner and cheaper energy as a result of the Energy Strategy 2050. The investments being made in the Swiss energy system will create jobs and help the country grow and prosper.By Hans-Ulrich BiglerOn 21 May, we will be voting on the first set of measures for th

Zurich, Switzerland's financial centre, is not yet out of the clear(Keystone)Swiss private banks have spent much of the past decade trying to rid themselves of lucrative accounts used to avoid taxes. But news of an inte ational tax probe at Credit Suisse last month showed more work is needed to men