Roberto Azevêdo: Switzerland plays a leading role within the WTO For nearly three years as head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Roberto Azevêdo has maintained there will be no quick solution to the Doha Round, which aims to reduce trade barriers worldwide. In an interview with swissinfo.ch, h...

How do the different tennis champions compare? We summed up the complete history of all the number one ranked ATP tennis players in one graphic.xa0 Grand slam titles, ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) points, ATP rankings... Experts like to use all kinds of different metrics to rate tennis p...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of London for the Brexit vote Direct democracy can be overwhelming and even dangerous, or so some people now believe after the vote for Britain to leave the European Union was taken at the end of June. How do the Swiss make decisions taken by the peopl...

How do the different tennis champions compare? We summed up the complete history of all the number one ranked ATP tennis players in one graphic.xa0 Grand slam titles, ATP (Association of Tennis Players) points, ATP rankings... Experts like to use all kinds of different metrics to rate tennis players...

Roberto Azevêdo: Switzerland plays a leading role within the WTO For nearly three years as head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Roberto Azevêdo has maintained there will be no quick solution to the Doha Round, which aims to reduce trade barriers worldwide. In an interview with swissinfo.ch, h...

Tidjane Thiam has been forced to take shelter from a hail of criticism in recent weeks When he took over at the helm of Credit Suisse last July, Tidjane Thiam could hardly have expected - just one year on - to be denying reports of the company being broken up and sold off. It has been one of those y...

Many of the workers involved in the Swiss project to build the world's longest railway tunnel came from different EU countries (Keystone) A new federal report underscores the importance of Switzerland’s free-movement accords with the European Union – and offers Britain a potential glimpse of life af...

The people of Portland, Oregon voted to legalise the recreational use of marijuanaxa0 People’s initiatives are a tool to amend the Swiss constitution. Men have been able to use this since 1891; for Swiss women it took until 1971. The idea, which was bo in the late 18th century, has gone around the w...

Jul 2, 2016 - 11:00René Groebli is the missing link for Swiss photography in the second half of the 20th century. He combines the romantic in photography with the vision of the technicians, the mode ists.His pictures not only summed up the times, they gave you a sense of the time. Only the greatest ...

Having tamed ABB's robotics division, Spiesshofer is reorganising the entire company (Keystone) Six years ago, Ulrich Spiesshofer went into battle with robots. The former management consultant had taken over the ailing robotics division of Swiss engineering group ABB. Its robots were too expensive a...

There are 3.4 employed people for every pensioner in Switzerland. By the end of this century, this should fall to 2 for every retired person (swissinfo.ch) For nearly 70 years, retirees in Switzerland have been guaranteed a decent pension through old age insurance. But data analysis shows that the e...

Here are the stories we will be following the week of July 4, 2016: (Keystone) Monday Our data analysis shows how the Swiss pension system is having trouble adjusting to new demographics. As parliament and voters take up the subject this year, we find the current age at which people retire often doe...

A University of Be researcher argues that Victorian ghost stories can shed light on our understanding of culture, religion, and even mode -day science's struggles with the mysteries of space. Let's block ads! (Why?)

This week Diccon follows the traces the Swiss have left in London. (Diccon Bewes for swissinfo.ch) Let's block ads! (Why?)

Jul 2, 2016 - 11:00René Groebli is the missing link for Swiss photography in the second half of the 20th century. He combines the romantic in photography with the vision of the technicians, the mode ists.His pictures not only summed up the times, they gave you a sense of the time. Only the greatest ...

The cartoon of the week is a new series at swissinfo.ch. Cartoonist Marina Lutz has worked with different Swiss media as a caricaturist, including the Nebelspalter satirical magazine. Lutz has won several awards for her work, notably during the Fumetto inte ational cartoon festival.xa0Click through ...

Jul 1, 2016 - 11:00It is almost impossible to imagine the lakeside city of Montreux without the annual Montreux Jazz Festival, which tu s 50 this summer. A new book tells the story of the renowned festival.Half a century of existence has resulted in the creation of some legendary material – images, ...

Nora Illi, an officer of the Islamic Central Council Switzerland (ICCS), at an event in May 2010. (Keystone) With a burka ban coming into force in part of Switzerland on Friday, and anti-Islam sentiment running high, we asked three Swiss women why they decided to become Muslims. Barbara Veljiji clim...

(shutterstock.com) Is democracy good for football? The link between a country’s economic growth and athletic achievement is well known, but what about political systems and the “beautiful game”? There is actually a significant correlation between a country’s level of democracy and the performance of...

Muslims wait before the start of the annual conference of the Islamic Central Council in Fribourg. (Keystone) Three Swiss women who have converted to Islam explain their views on what practices and beliefs are rooted in religion, and what are simply local traditions. Nora Illi is a women’s delegate ...