Beyond its excellence in watch-making and financial services, Switzerland is still a retrograde nation in many ways. This neutral and very wealthy state did not give...

The Swiss government has laid out the details of proposals to ban or severely restrict assisted suicide as part of plans to tackle “suicide tourism”. More...

Several months ago, before people such as Javier Solana and Binyamin Netanyahu, among others, began to question the relevance of the Geneva Conventions to modern...

Roman Polanski’s three decades as a fugitive are coming back to haunt him. Noting his previous escape from U.S. authorities, Switzerland’s top criminal court on...

Designers of a bra that turns into gas masks and a team who found that named cows produce more milk were among the winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel prizes. The aim of the...

Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection...

Attention: Discretion Required! As the Ukraine and Thailand became more aware of Western opportunities, more distant places are still ready to send their poor and...

The fate of the Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski became an international cause célèbre yesterday as Paris, Warsaw and an extensive cast of figures from...

Switzerland’s world number one Roger Federer has pulled out of next month’s Japan Open and Shanghai Masters 1000. The 28-year-old told organisers he was...

Switzerland will not join the European Union’s anti-piracy efforts, lawmakers decided Thursday amid concern that participating in the mission off Somalia could...

Down at the bottom of Switzerland’s deepest lake is one of the country’s murkiest secrets. For here is disturbing evidence of Switzerland’s...

A UN spokesman tells the Swiss News Agency that Libya submitted a proposal to the General Assembly calling for the dissolution of Switzerland last month. The proposal...

Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that “significant” rainfall has lashed the...

Mumbai is one of the cheapest cities but also paying the lowest hourly wages in the world according to UBS study comparing purchasing power of 73 cities of the...

Knowledge of black bucks stashed by industrialists, politicians, officials, bureaucrats in the safe havens of Swiss bank has been a permanent fixation for the Indian...

The Obama administration has won a key victory against Swiss financial institutions. For months, the administration and the IRS have been hounding Swiss banks to reveal...

In recent years, Switzerland has seen the rise of a xenophobic Right. Of course, like nearly all European nations the country has long had an extreme-right faction but...

Wealthy Americans seeking to take advantage of Switzerland’s famous banking secrecy laws to avoid paying even more takes to the federal government are finding...

Well kids, it looks like the U.N. conference on racism in Geneva is a repeat of the Durban conference all over again. (That was back in 2001 when US and Israeli...

This is the world of global warming, where melting glaciers dictate borders between nations. The scenic mountains and rivers between Italy and its neighbors provide...