Tages Anzeiger. Around 2:20pm on 13 August 2016, a 27 year old man attacked passengers on a train travelling through the St. Gallen Rhine Valley as the train approached the town of of Salez, according to the Swiss-German newspaper Tages Anzeiger. Salez is in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, close to the border with […]
Archives for August 2016
Film: the kids teach their parents a thing or two in: C’est quoi cette famille?
12 August 2016. This week’s releases are French and German, and why not, for we are after all living in the heart of Europe, aren’t we? And they are excellent ones, so take your pick or see all three, for you will be amused, moved and enlightened, respectively. C’EST QUOI CETTE FAMILLE ? *** (vo French) […]
Switzerland’s biggest street music festival is happening now in Bern
By Bill Harby The streets of Bern’s Old Town are crazy alive this weekend with 140 musicians, clowns, puppeteers, actors, dancers and other performers from 25 countries. Plus lots of tasty international food. The 13th annual Buskers Bern Street Music Festival began Thursday night and continues Friday and Saturday (18h – 24h) at 25 venues. […]
The head of the Red Cross talks about the importance of family and how “home gives you your dignity”
Renu Chahil-Graf takes a Walk in the Park with As Sy, Secretary-General of the International Federation of the Red Cross to discuss his journey to this big job and what drives him. Hope and motivation drove the unstoppable As Sy to devote a lifetime of work to humanitarian issues. Born into a “normal” Senegalese family, […]
Get ready for a spectacular night sky light show
20 Minutes. Every year the prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle puts on a light show. The show’s climax occurs at the end of this week at around 1:30 am on Friday morning, when 200 to 300 lights will cross the sky within an hour. The name, Perseides, comes from a term found […]
Forced under age marriages spike in Switzerland
24 Heures. Swiss authorities have recorded a growing number of cases of girls under the age of 16 being forced into marriage. The Zurich newspaper NZZ am Sonntag recently revealed numbers from a centre in Zurich, that aids victims of forced mariage, showing an increase of nearly 70% in the number of victims in 2016 […]
Researchers in Geneva make cancer breakthrough
A team of scientists at the University of Geneva and the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG) have managed to slow down the progress of a cancer known as lymphoma. Lymphoma, which affects white blood cells known as lymphocytes, typically spreads through the body into the lymph nodes and other parts of the body. The Geneva-based […]
The 10,000 m2 grass fresco by French artist Saype in Leysin, Switzerland
24 Heures. The 10,000 m2 fresco of a shepherd on a grassy slope in Leysin is the work of French artist Guillaume Legros, who goes by the alias of Saype. The work, which took him, his parents, and two of his friends, five twelve-hour days to complete, is the largest grass fresco ever created. Looking […]
UBS says Switzerland still at risk of real-estate bubble
Brought to you by Investec Switzerland. Risks to the Swiss property market remained elevated in the second quarter of 2016, with rock-bottom interest rates propping up demand for residential assets to be rented out for investment purposes. Still, UBS Group AG’s index experienced a “slight” decrease in the period, according to economists Matthias Holzhey and […]
Film: Angry Indian godesses
5 August 2016. ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES *** One angry Goddess is intimidating, but seven of them?! With all the rapes and injustices going on in India against women, how could these young, liberated women not be angry? Indian director Pan Nalin of the sublime “Samsara” is back with this joyous, colorful yet socially pertinent and necessary […]