Switzerland News

Oil edged above $104 a barrel today, rebounding from an earlier decline and heading for a small weekly gain, although concern about the strength of demand growth limited the rebound.

March is traditionally the strongest month of the year for the local tourism industry.

Alliance Boots, the pharmacy and drugs giant behind Britain's best-known chemist, said yesterday it plans to keep expanding into new markets and in areas where it already has a strong presence.

Glencore Xstrata chairman John Bond surprised investors on Thursday by announcing he had been voted out of the top job at the miner and trader at the group's first annual shareholders' meeting.

A European investigation into alleged price rigging by major oil companies has drawn attention to leading price agency Platts and the way it sets oil price benchmarks.

Washington , D.C. --- This Sunday the public will have a rare opportunity to experience a free concert by an Estonian singer-songwriter, pianist and composer and her duo Swiss partner.

Thirteen students from nine U.S. colleges and universities as well as three students from foreign universities have been selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Student Academy Awards competition.

Valartis Group AG / Results of the Valartis Group Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting 2013 .

Chief of the Swiss Money Laundering Reporting Office, MROS, Judith Voney, right, and her deputy Adrian Lobsiger, left, attend a news conference where they present the annual report of the office in Bern, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Re announced the members and functional responsibilities of its newly recruited management.

From the Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich ; Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano ; Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich ; Rufibach rePROstat, Biostatistical Consulting and Training, Bern ; Department of Cardiology, Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne ; Department ... (more)

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There were screams of fear, sighs of relief and tears of joy as Norwich City legend Jeremy Goss and 19 Norfolk fundraisers conquered one of the world's biggest bungee jumps.

Photo gallery: Norwich City legend Jeremy Goss conquers one of world's biggest bungee jumps for charity - Watch the death-defying mustard video here There were screams of fear, sighs of relief and tears of joy as Norwich City legend Jeremy Goss and 19 Norfolk fundraisers conquered one of the world's biggest bungee jumps.

Press Release Thun, 13 May 2013 Meyer Burger's MB-PERC solar cell technology industrially successful worldwide The PERC solar cell technology, developed by Roth & Rau AG, the competence centre for coating technologies within the Meyer Burger Technology Group, has been successfully implemented under the product name "MB-PERC" by customers in order ... (more)

Leona Shaffer remembers more than 90 years ago, back when her family ran a farm, raising Jersey and Guernsey cattle and growing and harvesting hay and crops with little mechanical help.

Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard is living his dream - a flight across America - and he's doing it without a drop of fuel.

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