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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Swiss rents drop in July
Rents across Switzerland dropped in July according to real estate website Homegate.ch. Since the index started in January 2009, average rents across the country had risen by 13.9% over the 7 and a half years up to the end of June 2016. By the end of July the total increase was 13.7%, a drop of […]
Swimmer breaks 83 km Lake Geneva swim record by 3 minutes
Le Matin. Spanish swimmer Jaime Caballero made the swim from Villeneuve, at one end of the lake, to Geneva at the other end, to raise awareness for diabetes. Swimming through the night, he left Villeneuve near Montreux, at 3:00pm and arrived in Geneva early the following morning. The 83 km swim took 22 hours and […]
