After the expected banning of minarets by the Swiss voters, the Moroccan higher council of Islamic scholars expressed their disappointment over this form of extremism...

The Swiss have voted for their referendum, and the vote has decided against the building of Islamic Minarets in Switzerland. Middle Eastern press called it a racist...

After the expected banning of minarets by the Swiss voters, the Moroccan higher council of Islamic scholars expressed their disappointment over this form of extremism...

The Swiss Minaret ban is the worst expression of Western bigotry since the days of Nazi anti-Semitism. It did not even play the pretense of banning all religious...

As expected, the Minaret ban in Switzerland, on November 29th, has a caused a furor not only in the Muslim world, but from the more tolerant religious leaders of other...

So Switzerland - a nation that only gave women the right to vote in 1970 - voted over the weekend to ban the construction of Minarets in Mosques. Alessandro Della...

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...

As a maxillofacial surgeon, Jerome Sobel has brought a smile — literally — to hundreds of patients’ faces. But the Lausanne physician has a second job that is...

The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13...

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...