Sources: ABC News
Switzerland's entry, "The Code" by Nemo, wins this year's Eurovision contest. 2024-05-11
Voters in Switzerland accept the referendum to increase monthly pensions but reject the referendum to increase the retirement age. 2024-03-3
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet meets with Assange’s lawyers and his wife in Geneva, Switzerland. 2022-08-27
A team of physicists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, assisted by colleagues in Switzerland and the United States, successfully returns the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past. 2019-03-13
An avalanche at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland injures four, one seriously, with fears that up to a dozen skiers may have been hit according to witnesses. 240 rescuers including police and army search the affected piste area. No further victims are immediately found, or missing persons reported. 2019-02-19
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
Swiss police in Geneva, following yesterday's CIA tip, arrest two Syrian nationals. Apparently, traces of explosives were found in their car. President Simonetta Sommaruga says, "There is currently no indication that there was a concrete attack planned." 2015-12-11
Switzerland votes in its gun control referendum, rejecting the proposal. 2011-02-13
Former President of the United States George W. Bush cancels a planned appearance in Switzerland; Human Rights Watch link the cancellation to growing pressure for Bush to be arrested over his approval of waterboarding torture, saying Bush is "avoiding handcuffs". 2011-02-5