The shooter is believed to have acted alone (AP) The media in Switzerland has reacted gloomily to the latest violent attack to take place in one its neighbouring countries. A gunman opened fire on Friday in the German city of Munich close to a shopping centre, leaving at least nine dead. The German-...

Jul 23, 2016 - 11:00The Blondeau foundry in La Chaux-de-Fonds, canton Neuchâtel, has been producing bells for the Olympic Games since 1980. The latest examples will perform at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.The Olympic Games do not immediately conjure up images of bells, but they are freque...

The head of Swiss pharma giant, Novartis, Joe Jimenez, explains why he thinks the company’s cancer drugs strategy will keep it on top. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Since Jimenez became CEO in 2010, he has restructured Novartis, tu ing a loosely affiliated set of divisions into a fully integrated company, with...

Young militants in 1984 prepare to defend the Solentiname Islands, famous for painting workshops organised by writer E esto Cardenal, a Sandinistas minister of culture (Keystone/Magnum/Larry Powell) About 800 Swiss volunteered to rebuild Nicaragua after the 1979 Sandinista political uprising against...

While anxious about the post-Brexit risks for the UK, the Roche CEO was upbeat on the future of the pharma sector in the US (Keystone) Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, has wa ed that the UK risks losing its lead in medical research after leaving the European Union. The Swiss group called for...

Each day ends in sleep and every life ends in death but our relationship with sleep and death are complicated and diverse (Keystone) Is being asleep a passive state? Can you mou for a dead person you don't know? Two Indian artists give the Swiss a taste of blurred boundaries when it comes to sleep a...

BSI has taken the brunt of the regulatory fire for its involvement with 1MDB (Keystone) The ongoing global investigation into the 1MDB corruption case raises the question whether Swiss banks have cleaned up their acts. The enquiry estimates that some $4 billion (CHF4 billion) has been syphoned out o...

Made people laugh and cry: Swiss clown Dimitri (RDB) A well-known Swiss entertainer has died at the age of 80. Dimitri Jakob Müller – known simply as Dimitri – was a popular clown and mime. See in another language: 1 His death was confirmed by an agent of his family on Wednesday. Bo in Ascona in the...

Children to fill the ballot box? It's a concept proposed by the think tank Avenir Suisse. But in fact, it would be the parents doing the voting. (Keystone) Brexit, the British referendum decision to leave the European Union, has shown yet again that in Weste democracies, older people are overreprese...

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(Nicola Sznajder/Flickr http://h.swissin.fo/PMTG302nS2S ) Thousands of people drive across the border from France, Germany and Italy to Switzerland every day for work. One company wants to see if they can make their staff commute in a more environmentally-friendly way. More than 34,000 people alone ...

Vučić has served as Serbian Prime Minister since April 2014 (Keystone) Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić is one of the world leaders looking to Switzerland’s vocational training system to reform their country’s workforce. He takes Serbia’s workers to task for a lack of diligence but believes S...

In parts of India, the services of a trained mou er are called upon at funerals to create an atmosphere of grief and bereavement. One such mou er was invited to Switzerland as part of an artistic performance. Jayalakshmi Gopalan is an Oppari performer, a dying southe Indian tradition of singing at o...

A male o amental headdress 'me-àkà' from 1960-70, and decorative items to be wo on the arms from 1950, both from Brazil. (MEG, J. Watts) A Geneva museum is showcasing hundreds of items from Amazonian indigenous groups that were amassed by travellers and later gifted to the city. But do works like th...

The pack took in the Nydeggstalden hill in Be 's old town as the city tu ed out to watch They came, they saw, they cycled. Stage 16 of the Tour de France has arrived in Switzerland, and the crowds have tu ed out in their droves to cheer on the riders and give some special attention to Swiss pro cycl...

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, jokes with Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland in January 2016 (Keystone) Clinton or Trump: as far as Swiss interests go, it might not matter. Bilateral relations between the two countries have been ...

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These are the stories we’re following in the week of July 18. (Keystone) Monday Will Swiss interests in the United States be better served by a Clinton or Trump presidency? The results of our survey of Swiss opinion leaders may surprise you. (Keystone) Tuesday Serbia is the latest country to look to...

The Pavillon Le Corbusier Museum Heidi Weber in Zurich is one of the architect's works to have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list (Keystone) The importance of Le Corbusier’s works has finally been recognised by UNESCO. Why did it take Switzerland so long to appreciate the greatness of the ...

Sharon Zielasek came out as transgender ten years ago. After telling her family and friends, explaining to the people she worked with was the next challenge. This part of the process often doesn’t go well. Sharon told swissinfo.ch her personal story, and explained how she's helping others to overcom...