Lucky Cat Survives 70 MPH Car Crash in Switzerland
As if being able to survive being dropped from a building wasn't enough, cats are apparently able to withstand high-speed car crashes that would kill us furless bipeds. This lucky cat that's been nicknamed Quasimodo recently survived being hit by a Peugeot ...
Tennis Tuesday – France And Switzerland Into Davis Cup Final
In this week’s edition of Tennis Tuesday Eilís Brennan takes a look at this year’s Davis Cup final match-up as well as all the other news from around the tennis world. France and Switzerland will meet in the Davis Cup final this November after both ...
Switzerland takes on its top drugmakers in price row
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland, home to the world's two biggest drugmakers, might be expected to give them an easy ride. But Roche and Novartis are finding no immunity in their home market from a European-wide price squeeze. Governments and healthcare ...
IOM Investigates Reports of Deliberate Drowning of 500 Migrants in Mediterranean
Source: International Organization for Migration Country: World, Egypt, occupied Palestinian territory, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic Switzerland - Investigators from the International Organization for Migration have obtained eyewitness testimony of a tragic incident in which as many as 500 migrants w ...
"The European School-to-work Transition And The Crisis" by Luca Giuliani and Francesco Pastore
Luca Giuliani The school-to-work transition is a long, dark tunnel for many young people around the world. However, the problem is not the same everywhere; in Germany, for example, young people have almost the same probability of working as adults, while in the Eastern and Mediterranean EU countries ...
IRCL 2014 | Official Report by Geoffroy Dubreuil
10 years later the IRCL is back! International Roller Contest Lausanne 2014. Visit Ircl.ch. August 29-31. Official Report by Geoffroy Dubreuil. Previously Stephanie Richer @ IRCL 2014 (Switzerland): Clips IRCL 2014 (Lausanne, Switzerland): Daily Highlights Photo of the day: Anthony Pottier @ IRCL 20 ...
Switzerland's Gold Vote
What's at stake in Switzerland's referendum on SNB gold policy... On NOVEMBER 30th, writes former US Congressman Ron Paul, voters in Switzerland will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on gold. On the ballot is a measure to prohibit the Swiss National Bank (SNB) from further gold sales, to re ...
Tuesday Morning Man: Vincent Kerschbaum!
I saw this ridiculously handsome guy over the weekend at the Q Film Festival in Long Beach and when I heard this charming British accent coming out of his mouth, I had to know who he was. So, I asked him. He’s actor Vincent Kerschbaum and he had flown in from the UK for the weekend to attend the thr ...
Val Bavona wrap up – Summer's last blast
Last Friday we made the voyage from Zurich down to Val Bavona for a weekend of landscape photography in this rugged valley found in northwest Ticino. The landscape in Val Bavona is dominated by huge granite walls towering over it on both sides. A great effort has been made to preserve the original b ...
