Sources: Reuters
World leaders meet at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland to advance the Ukrainian peace process. 2024-06-15
The National Council of Switzerland votes 151–29 to approve a ban on full-face coverings, such as burqas worn by a small minority of Muslim women. Violators of the ban could face a fine of up to 1,000 Swiss francs. 2023-10-29
In a medical first, a paralyzed man is able to walk naturally through the use of electronic brain implants implanted by Swiss scientists. 2023-05-24
Swiss newspaper "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" reports that Mossad was responsible for three bombings of German and Swiss firms in 1981 to try to halt Iranian and Pakistani development of nuclear weapons. 2022-01-2
Switzerland reports 3,105 new cases, the highest record number in a single day since the pandemic began, thus taking the total to 74,442 confirmed cases in Switzerland and Liechtenstein as the second wave of the pandemic grips the country. 2020-10-16
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
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland opens criminal proceedings against the President of FIFA Sepp Blatter. 2015-09-25
In Switzerland, the people of Zurich vote to reject a ban on assisted suicide in the country, and also reject the restricting of assisted suicide to Zurich residents only. British pro-euthanasia group Dignity in Dying hails the result as a "brave decision". 2011-05-15
American photographer Jill Sonsteby from Jacksonville, Florida captures a zebra putting its head inside the mouth of a hippopotamus and surviving at Zürich Zoologischer Garten. 2010-03-12