Four out of ten Swiss have taken public transport without buying a ticket. But many people can’t resist pinching stuff from restaurants, hotels and especially their office, according to a survey. From shoplifting to fare-dodging, the representativ...

More than 1,000 people in Switzerland who lost money to a prize scam operated by US company Next-Gen will be refunded some of their money. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has notified the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) of a refu...

Belief in conspiracy theories has decreased markedly in Switzerland during the pandemic, according to a study. But those who stick with them are likely to become more radical, reckons one expert. Conspiracy theories boomed during the pandemic – fa...

The current hot spell has pushed the zero-degree line – the height at which the temperature goes into the minus – far above the highest Alpine peak. On Sunday night it reached 5,184 metres above sea level, a new record. The old record, 5,117 met...

French aviation authorities reportedly mistook a letter in the registration number of the Cessna being flown by Swiss Interior Minister Alain Berset over a restricted military area. As a result Berset did not react to French warnings, triggering a mi...

A female elephant died from the herpes virus at Zoo Zurich on Saturday making it the third such fatality in a month. Ruwani, a five-year-old elephant, showed no signs of illness until Friday, the zoo said on Saturday. In the last few days, her vira...

For the first time in over 100 years, Swiss mountain guides will no longer be accompanying alpinists on the classic route to the summit of Jungfrau. A crevasse has opened up transforming into an ice wall that can only be climbed with special equipm...

A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa has been condemned by Switzerland as a “blatant disregard for the looming food insecurity worldwide”. Explosions damaged the Black Sea port on July 23, just a day after Russia agreed a deal...

Around 30,000 children, youths and adult supervisors started congregating in Switzerland at the weekend for the start of a huge scout camp. Most of the participants, some 20,000 scouts aged between 12 and 17, arrived at the camp in the alpine Goms r...

The founder of successful online travel booking platform Lastminute.com has been detained by Swiss prosecutors investigating the suspected misuse of pandemic bailout funds. Italian national Fabio Cannavale, who is CEO of the Swiss stock market liste...

The Swiss Red Cross has launched an online platform to help Ukrainian refugees navigate through the initial steps of arriving in Switzerland. The helpful.redcross.ch website gives information about finding accommodation, security, financial support ...

An erratic, over-proportionate and poorly coordinated political response to the Covid-19 pandemic is responsible for the current spate of lost baggage and airport chaos, says the boss of ground handling company Swissport. “Governments are primaril...

Continuing high temperatures and resulting drought have prompted more Swiss cantons to ban fireworks in the runup to Swiss National Day on August 1. The western cantons of Neuchâtel and Fribourg on Friday announced a ban on the use of fireworks, wi...

Approved Chinese companies will have a secondary listing on the Swiss stock exchange from Monday after financial regulator FINMA gave a green light. The mechanism called "China-Swiss Stock Connect" allows Chinese companies that have received authori...

Low water levels in the Rhine, as well as logistical problems on European rail lines, are hitting supplies of oil products to Switzerland. To ensure supplies, the Federal Office for National Economic Supply (FONES) has decided to temporarily cut com...

Despite trees full of fruit, this year’s cherry harvest will be much lower than expected because of the cherry vinegar fly, reports Swiss public broadcaster SRF. "We assume that we will not reach the estimated 2,500 tonnes of eating cherries,” s...

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has dismissed a defamation case linked to a disgraced Albanian football club. In 2018, European football’s governing body, UEFA, banned KS Skenderbeu from competing in top European tournaments for 10 years after fin...

Wealth manager Julius Bär has joined a growing list of Swiss banks that will no longer pass on the cost of negative interest rates to clients. The decision to scrap charges from August 1 on Swiss francs, euros and Danish kroner follows an interest ...

Swiss Interior Minister Alain Berset has avoided legal proceedings in France after flying a light aircraft into restricted airspace earlier this month. Berset’s plane was forced to land by the French military after he accidentally flew too close t...

Injured Ukrainian children will be able to receive medical care in Switzerland despite initial opposition on neutrality grounds. Swiss officials have expressed a willingness to allow 155 injured Ukrainian children into Switzerland for medical trea...

A heatwave is continuing to hold many parts of Switzerland in its grip despite some heavy thunderstorms. Temperatures reached 36.7°C in the city of Geneva on Wednesday, slightly down on the previous day. An increasing number of local and regional ...

Switzerland’s customs and border security authorities have seized more than 230 packages of illegally imported counterfeit medical products. The confiscations were conducted during a week-long international campaign in June against the illegal onl...

Switzerland could face electricity and gas shortages in winter despite sufficient supplies at the moment and considerable reserves, experts say. “We’re witnessing the first global energy crisis, with Europe at the centre,” the head of the Fede...

Swiss retail banks make the most profit per customer among wealthy nations, according to an international ranking. The Swiss banks are followed at a respectable distance by their Australian and Belgian competitors, according to a study by consultin...

Anna Gabriel, the former Catalan parliamentarian and pro-independence leader, has returned to Spain voluntarily to appear before the Supreme Court. Gabriel, who has been living in Switzerland since 2018, is accused of disobedience by the Spanish ju...

An increasing number of municipalities have restricted the use of water as large parts of Switzerland cope with a heatwave. Regions in eastern as well as western parts of country announced a ban on pumping water from rivers, brooks and ponds. Some ...

Former Swiss government ministers have spoken out against a decision to deny war-wounded Ukrainians hospital care over neutrality concerns. Ruth Dreifuss and Didier Burkhalter, two former cabinet members, have voiced their objections to an official ...

The planned summer camp for around 30,000 Swiss scouts and guides can rely on financial and logistical support as well as help from the army. The defence ministry said the organisers of the camp could benefit from CHF7 million ($7.2 million), 20 ton...

Swiss federal prosecutors have started an appeal process against a court decision to acquit former football bosses Joseph ‘Sepp’ Blatter and Michel Platini of corruption. The former head of world football’s governing body FIFA, Blatter, and th...

The Swiss army has pledged to train Ukrainian civilians to remove landmines, cluster munitions and explosives in the war-torn country. Swiss military experts regularly hold such training exercises together with the Geneva International Center for Hu...