The black box from the Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps yesterday has been found and is being analysed in Paris. The box is damaged however it should still contain useful information. The aircraft descended rapidly but probably no faster than an aircraft would while landing. Why it descended so low continues to […]
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Airbus A320 crashes in French Alps
An Airbus A320 en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in the French Alps according to BFMTV in France. The aircraft is flown by Germanwings, the low-cost airline owned by Lufthansa. According to Agence Presse (AP) it is unlikely there will be any survivors among the 150 people on board. It was also reported […]
Continued rise in cross-border workers entering Switzerland
At the end of 2014 there were 287,100 foreign residents crossing the borders of Switzerland to work. This army of day-tripping workers, called frontaliers in French, would fill around 5,000 buses and exceeds the combined populations of the Cantons of Neuchatel and Jura. The cantons with the highest number of cross-border workers were those with […]
Hans Erni Switzerland’s Picasso dies
Hans Erni, considered by some to be Switzerland’s Picasso, passed away on Saturday at the age of 106. Born in Lucerne in 1909, the sculptor and painter never stopped working. He completed the fresco at the entrance of the Palais des Nations, which contains the office of the United Nations in Geneva in 2009. The […]
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Uncle Sam seeks expat ideas on tax reform
A record number of US citizens renounced their citizenship last year and one of the most common reasons for this was the costs and time required to comply with America’s complicated tax rules. It seems that some in the US senate have heard the cries of their expatriates. A bipartisan group including Democrats and Republicans […]
Five top fashion trends for spring 2015
In just a few days winter will be officially over and that is why today we are showing you five of the best fashion trends for the 2015 spring season. Take a look! 1. Yellow Nothing says bye bye winter like a serious pop of color and this spring yellow is the way to go. […]
5 things you need to know about fat
Many doctors and much advertising have promoted low-fat diets and low-fat products. Western society has responded to this by significantly reducing fat consumption, however according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. Clearly, eating less fat is not making us more healthy. Why is this? 1. Bodies cannot […]
Gender equality, quality of life and Swiss citizenship
Dispatches from Happy Valley – an expat’s view of life in Switzerland Another dispatch from Happy Valley…this writer’s affectionate name for the Swiss region bordering on Lac Léman (Lake Geneva). Back in Happy Valley after a long return flight from Canada via Paris to Geneva. Coincidentally on International Women’s Day, with Air France handing out […]
Path of total solar eclipse
Friday 20 March 2015, will bring a total solar eclipse to Europe. Electrical power grids across Europe will be hit by a drop in solar-produced electricity. In the European Union the drop could be as high as 34 GW. Temperatures will also drop by around 3 degrees Celsius. It will occur in the morning and […]
