Archives
27-02 Jun 2012 (week 22)
20-26 May 2012 (week 21)
- Bill Clinton teases Lausanne
- Swiss consumers say outlook brighter, but not likely to save more
- Chicago Nato meeting draws protesters
- Moon eclipses sun, creating eerie world, nearly crashing Nasa site
- Sports, football: Servette FC downs Basel!
- Riddes lumberyard fire under investigation
- NE Italy earthquake, 6 dead include 100-yr-old
13-19 May 2012 (week 20)
- Latest Kennedy death brings illness, animosity into public
- ASK summer camps: fun for all special children
- Apple and publishers lose bid to reject class action on e-book pricing
- Woodless driver sought by Vaud police
- Long weekend demands mixed planning
- FBI begins probe into JP Morgan
- Asylum seekers’ fight at Fribourg station leaves 1 in critical condition
- Truck overturns on Simplon pass
- François Hollande meets Angela Merkel (Chappatte cartoon)
- Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies
- Lufthansa Technik to cut 200-plus jobs in Basel
- Cool your heels on the A9, fines start 16 May
- Gone are the days when you could live indefinitely in English or Russian
- A2 closed briefly in Ticino after cliff collapses
- Usain Bolt to race in Zurich 30 August (update)
- Swiss and French zipcodes
- Dalai Lama gives $1b to Save the Children India
- WWF’s 2012 Living Planet report holds little good news
- Shares may be down, but jewels are definitely up
- More bribery behind sharp increase in suspect money flows
- Jeff Koons challenges Beyeler visitors on definition of art
- Dutch man falls to death in Rhone
- Safra jewels are latest in Christie’s string
- Swiss army replaces old clunker bicycles with top models
- Thonex border guard attacked during escape attempt
- Deadly weekend for motorcyclists in Switzerland
- Euro under pressure: backdrop to 1st Hollande, Merkel meeting
- Sports, football: Man City take Premier League in last minute thriller
- Sports, tennis: Federer triumphs while rivals get the blues
06-12 May 2012 (week 19)
- We love our Swiss trains more, and we love our cars a little less
- Black market labour battle showing results, says Bern
- Asylum requests up 8% in April but countries shifting
- Good day for cops, bad day for robbers
- Bachmann’s short-lived Swiss citizenship
- An CHF18.4 million Stradivarius accident in Spain
- Dutch man pleads guilty to murder in Peru, fights extradition to the US
- William Tell is still sticky after 500 years
- Syrian capital bomb blasts take heavy toll
- Missing Russian jet debris found
- Foreign thieves plague Geneva; this one is American
- Zurich benefits from less-disastrous world
- Switzerland puts into effect sanctions-lifting for Myanmar/Burma
- ICRC concerned about Palestinian hunger strikers
- Obama joins Biden in backing same sex marriage
- Max the stork loses one of three young
- Cheering news from int’l. organizations in Geneva
- Genava Art and History museum
- Swiss gov’t recommends “no” vote on abortion pay cuts
- ACTA gets another quiet blow, from the Swiss
- Switzerland, Italy ready to talk a tax deal at top level
- Popular initiative to punish road hooligans rejected by cabinet
- Women in the US slower to catch up on pay than Swiss
- Michele Bachmann waxes poetic about her Swiss citizenship (update)
- Cornavin looks north to handle boom in train travel
- US could make big savings by slowing growth in obesity
- Int’l “State of the Mother” report urges better maternal nutrition
- Swiss travel inside country up 4% in 5 years
- International financial markets hit following French and Greek votes
- What saving face means to one Graubuenden village
- Federal gov’t, Geneva, meet with top Merck Serono execs
- Water sports: find the nearest club
- Swiss unemployment down in April, consumer prices edge up
- Pictet says Swiss media got it wrong on bank and the US
- Schakira bows her head to become queen of the cows
- Geneva Marathon shows Ethiopian men at their finest
- Two youths die in Vaud car crash
- France: it’s official – Francois Hollande is president! (update)
29-05 May 2012 (week 18)
- Bikeswitzerland: bike-lovers paradise
- Geneva hospital gets its own Hollywood Boulevard
- Europe to have historical weather DB, starting with Swiss data
- Swiss debate neutrality of repatriating US wounded soldiers (update)
- WRS temporarily down: transmitter under repairs
- Nespresso to open 3rd Swiss capsules production centre
- Swiss, Lufthansa losses as price of oil continues to rise
- MIT, Harvard to offer free online classes
- Jetman circles Rio’s Christ the Redeemer
- Bolivia seizes Spanish power company
- Egyptian pre-election shooting kills 11 in Cairo
- BSkyB responds to lawmakers accusations of Murdoch
- Chinese dissident leaves US embassy in Beijing, Clinton visit starts
- Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen (Chappatte cartoon)
- Sarkozy, Hollande to face off in 2.5 hour Wednesday debate
- Obama promises to “finish the job” in Afghan speech
- Major Afghan refugee conference in Geneva seeks long-term solutions
- Swiss Army cracks down on arms, to cut abusive use
- Swiss hostage in Yemen shown in video, uncertainty over validity
- Aung San Suu Kyi sworn in to parliament in Burma
- Timor-Leste’s slow political recovery embracing larger group
- Future MP hopeful turns up the laughs, kicks off the shoes
- Dow closes at 4-year high
- Young Norwegian swim champion dies
- Park and ride for easy commute
- Business: UBS profits down 54%, Swisscom takes a dip (update)
- GenevaLunch news taking a small May Day break
- Gunmen kill 21 in separate church attacks in Nigeria
- Heathrow warns passengers of long waits, authorities oppose
- It’s spring! says mother stork Max
- Swiss central bank shows Q1 loss over currency positions
- Basel, the reluctant champ, takes the crown
- World jobs outlook gloomy, new ILO report says
- Brit wins Tour de Romandie in windy ride
- Canada, US investigations of SNC-Lavalin top man leads to his arrest
- ICRC worker murdered in Pakistan (Update)
- Geneva-Lausanne trains reduced Sunday afternoon: accident
- Strong foehn winds challenge clock race for Tour de Romandie cyclists
- Piper crash outside Lausanne kills 6
