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Geneva - Angry Swiss farmers threw plastic boots Friday at the country's economics minister during a cheese competition, in protest at what farmers say is a lack of govenmental support. Doris Leuthard's body guards quickly...
Watches, Army Knives, Cuckoo Clocks, and Food are Swiss Souvenirs From watches to army knives, Swiss fondue to Swiss wine, and crafts ranging from beer steins to cuckoo clocks Switzerland offers interesting shopping to souvenir...
Switzerland will soon have more nature parks of national and regional significance, the Federal Environment Office announced on Friday. In total, the Environment Office looked at 11 applications submitted in early 2009 for the...
They flew like ducks and they landed like ducks, but they were never like ducks at all. They were flying reptiles called pterosaurs with long, sharp beaks and wings for soaring. They lived in the days of their distant cousins,...
Safe, neutral, boring Switzerland is a strangely fertile source of curious cartography. Previously, this blog has zoomed in on wartime contingency plans for a Schweizer réduit (#109), Jules Verne’s fictional New Switzerland...
Luxury boutiques have pushed out drab Soviet shops (swissinfo.ch) Switzerland's prosperity is based on open borders: Swiss companies invest massively abroad, and foreign investors are encouraged to bring their money to...
A church in the village of Vicques in Switzerland has recently benefited from the installation of Tannoy's new Qflex beam-steering array loudspeaker system, solving a decades old problem with acoustics suffered by the...
Young people will be barred from dancing like this in public in seven Swiss cantons on Good Friday (Keystone) Residents in seven Swiss cantons will be required to turn off their music and put away their dancing shoes to respect...
