Sources: China.org.cn
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elects former Swiss president Alain Berset as the Council's new Secretary General, succeeding Marija Pejčinović Burić. 2024-06-25
Switzerland and Israel confirm their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-05-21
Two people are wounded after being stabbed at a store in Lugano, Switzerland. The attacker is a woman with ties to jihadist terrorism. The incident is being investigated as a terror attack. 2020-11-24
An avalanche on Ben Nevis kills two French nationals and a Swiss national. A fourth climber is injured and is receiving treatment at a hospital in Glasgow. 2019-03-13
Former Philippine First Lady and Ilocos Norte Representative Imelda Marcos has been convicted on seven counts of graft for transferring funds to private foundations in Switzerland and is sentenced to at least six years and one month imprisonment for each count. 2018-11-9
Two trains collide in Andermatt railway station in the Canton of Uri, Switzerland, injuring around 30 people. 2017-09-11
After finishing a hill-climb run on the trail in St. Gallen, Switzerland, The Grand Tour presenter, Richard Hammond failed to stop his Rimac Concept One, crashed it through a safety barrier and rolled over several times as it careened down the hill. It eventually came to a rest, upside-down, near the bottom. Hammond remained conscious during the accident and told first responders not to pull him out of the wreckage by his feet, as he thought he had broken his leg. Shortly after Hammond was removed from the Rimac, the wreckage burst into flames. 2017-06-10
A UN official on a Swiss television station says the UN has "concrete" suspicions that the rebels have used Sarin gas. The UN later released a statement in response stressing that it has not reached any official conclusions, and has yet to have acquired proof that either side used chemical weapons. 2013-05-6
The Belgian parents of children killed in a bus crash yesterday travel to Switzerland to identify the bodies. 2012-03-14
Oswald Grübel, chief executive of Swiss bank UBS, resigns in the wake of a rogue trading scandal. 2011-09-24