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Swiss citizens head to the polls to decide on two popular initiatives and three facultative referendums regarding a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, police measures to combat terrorism, the existing carbon tax policy, and a potential nationwide ban on the use of synthetic pesticides.
2021-06-13

The first secretary at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, Iran, is found dead after accidentally falling from the tower where she lived.
2021-05-4

An eight-year-old boy is killed and his mother injured after being pushed by a man into the path of an oncoming train at Frankfurt's main station, in Hesse, Germany. The attacker, a 40-year-old immigrant Eritrean man who lives in Switzerland, also attempted to knock a third person onto the tracks. The suspect and the victims did not know each another.
2019-07-29

Rogue trader at Swiss bank UBS Kweku Adoboli is found guilty and is sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal.
2012-11-20

Oswald Grübel, chief executive of Swiss bank UBS, resigns in the wake of a rogue trading scandal.
2011-09-24

UBS trader Kweku Adoboli is charged with fraud and false accounting.
2011-09-16

The UK's Metropolitan Police arrest trader Kweku Adoboli after Swiss bank UBS says it lost $2bn (£1.3bn) as a result of unauthorised trading by a member of staff.
2011-09-15

The Government of the United Kingdom pledges to raise the issue of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, allegedly by a Libyan official outside the embassy in London in 1984, with the new government in Tripoli.
2011-08-28

The BBC television series "Sherlock" wins two prizes at the 2011 British Academy Television Awards ceremony in London, including best drama series.
2011-05-22

A London court is told that a Saudi prince sexually murdered his servant.
2010-10-5