The 24th three-day Vevey festival of street artists, starts Friday 19 August at 4pm, and takes place at seven locations on the cobbled streets of Vevey’s old town, as well as at a new location near the Nest on Chauséee de la Guinguette. The show, a kind of outdoor circus, includes acrobats, football jugglers, mimers and tightrope […]
Two confirmed dead after attack on Swiss train
Le Matin. The 27 year old perpetrator of the train attack near Salez-Sennwald in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, has died from his injuries, according to St. Gallen’s police. Earlier in the day a 34 year old female victim died from injuries resulting from the same attack. Doctors reported that two of the remaining […]
Swiss police search the house of train attacker
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Credit Suisse dropped from index as european markets feel pressure after bank stress tests
5 August 2016 – Swiss and global market roundup. Brought to you by Investec Switzerland. The Swiss Market Index is set to close slightly higher this week, outperforming global equities thanks to defensive heavyweights such as Nestlé and Novartis. Pessimism hit European shares at the beginning of the week as sliding oil prices and bank stress […]
