A man reacts after identifying his relative among the bodies of tsunami victims in Carita, Indonesia, on December 23. (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Global markets f

While thesexa0foot-shaped plates helped women cross gratingsxa0outside a German department store in the 1960s, women at the SBC were asked to leave high-heeled shoes at home (Keystone) Since its cre

Still a lot of heavy lifting to do in the field of cleanxa0energy (Keystone) The man who drove thexa0SOLARTAXI around the world ten years ago thinks that renewables aren’t gaining ground quickly eno

US President Donald Trumpxa0at the WEF Congress Center on January 25, 2018 (© KEYSTONE / LAURENT GILLIERON) United States President Donald Trump will attend the annual meeting of the World Economi

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

Women are still very underrepresented in Swiss company boardrooms (Peter Klaunzer / KEYSTONE) Few women sit on company boards in Switzerland - and the rate is low compared to other European coun

Jalal did not want to have his identity disclosed out of security conce s for relatives who arexa0still in Syria. (swissinfo.ch) Jalal last saw his youngest son was when the boy was a baby. Now H

What do foreignxa0banks in the City of London need to consider? (EPA FILE) The UK’s financial regulator has urged a group of inte ational banks in the City of London to limit the number of client

Lake Brenets in the canton of Neuchâtel during the exceptional drought that hit Switzerland in the summer of this year. (KEYSTONE / ANTHONY ANEX) Over 40°C in the cities, long periods of drought

Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council in session, January 2018. (© KEYSTONE / PETER KLAUNZER) On Wednesday, December 5, parliament meets to elect two new members of the seven-seat Federal C

Rockslidesxa0around the Ochsenstock mountain in central Switzerland resulted in paths being closed in October. The hot summer melted the permafrost that usually binds the rocks together. (Keystone)

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

Heidi Main Heidi Amstalden Albertin in traditional Swiss dress Twenty-seven-year-old Heidi Amstalden Albertin lives in Helvetia, Brazil – a Swiss colony that her ancestors helped to found.

The author saved a month’s worth of plastic waste, pictured here. Less than half could be recycled.(swissinfo.ch) Switzerland consumes three times as much plastic as other European countries, but recycles 30% less. Bans on plastic in the EU and China may change that.xa0The Swiss appetite for plastic...

This content was published on April 14, 2018 11:00 AMApr 14, 2018 - 11:00 You don't necessarily have to havexa0snow to race down the slopes on skisxa0–xa0grass skiing on green pastures can bexa0similarly exhilarating.xa0The best in the world glide across the meadows at a speed of 90 kilometres per h...

(Keystone) Almost every article published by swissinfo.ch containsxa0a percentage, an age, an amount of money or some other figure.xa0Here’s a round-up of the most interesting statistics to appear in the past week’s stories. Exte al Content Formatting classes Mond

Ambulance attendantsxa0are trained to give urgentxa0care to patients, yet their services are only partly coveredxa0by basic health insurance.(Keystone) Swiss patients pay for most emergency transport out of pocket, and costs can add up. Rescue professionals are now seeking changes so their life-savi...

(Keystone) On April 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann suddenly saw “an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours”. Hofmann, then a scientist at Basel-based pharmaceutical company Sandoz, had accidentally experienced the first LSD trip after t...

Orphans eatxa0lunchxa0in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.xa0More 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 dol...