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Switzerland's veteran boss Ottmar Hitzfeld retires after the World Cup football finals and his young squad aim to give him a farewell to remember in Brazil....

With 31-year-old Lukas Reimann as president, the Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland is seeing a generation change. Reimann tells swissinfo.ch that the conservative pressure group is “more important than ever”. (Photo: Keystone) ...

Swiss women can expect to live to an impressive 85.1 years and Swiss men to 80.7, pipped by only Japanese women (87) and Icelandic men (81.2). (Photo: Keystone) ...

More than one in four Swiss residents are anti-Semitic, making Switzerland’s population one of the most anti-Jewish in Western Europe, according to an online report released this week by the Anti-Defamation League....

Frenchman Jérémy Chardy caught new father Roger Federer on the hop at a wind-blown Rome Masters tennis tournament on Wednesday, winning the second round match 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6)....

The Cannes Film Festival launched on Wednesday with hopes riding high on Swiss chances of cinema glory, including an entry from veteran cineaste Jean-Luc Godard....

A 100-carat yellow diamond ring sold for 14.5 million francs ($16.3 million) at auction in Geneva on Tuesday....

Motorists beware: publicly informing others about the location of speed cameras on Swiss roads can be a costly affair....

Switzerland's stock exchange regulator said on Wednesday that it had opened a probe into possible rule breaches by banking giant Credit Suisse....

The Joux Valley in northwest Switzerland, the cradle of high-end watchmaking, now generates more jobs than the number of local residents. swissinfo.ch explores the little-known outerlying region whose economic success is assured by French labour. (Photo: swissinfo) ...

The government wants health care providers to work together to improve quality control, make treatments more efficient and boost patient security. They also unveiled plans to create a national centre as part of the Health 2020 strategy. (Photo: Keystone) ...

Auction price for Graff Vivid Yellow was short of estimate but a record for a yellow diamond A 100-carat yellow diamond has sold for 14.5m Swiss francs (£9.7m) to a private buyer, as the star lot in a Geneva jewellery sale that Sotheby's auction house said raised 125.5m francs overall. The Graff Vivid Yellow, weighing 100.09 carats, set a record for a yellow diamond, Sotheby's said. "With...

Swiss tennis star Roger Federer is ready to play in the Rome Masters but he admitted to having “other priorities” after his wife Mirka gave birth eight days ago to twins for a second time....

The late German recluse who bequeathed a priceless art collection to a Bern museum, left two wills, although they "complement each other," a Munich court said on Tuesday: ...

Surrealist artist and set designer whose chest-bursting monster in the 1979 film Alien gained him worldwide acclaim Several elements were vital to the effectiveness of the 1979 horror film Alien , which was essentially an old-fashioned haunted house story relocated to deep space. (Its own director, Ridley Scott, called it "a C-movie done in an A-way".) Chief among them was the visceral and...

Hans Rudolph Giger, the Swiss artist renowned for his visual effects work on the film Alien, has died at the age of 74, Swiss broadcaster SRF reported online on Tuesday....

Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield, destroying everything in their path, as swarms of fellow robots rain fire from the skies....

Home to 8.5 million people, Austria is an oft-overlooked nexus of culture, cake and music. Now, The Local is ready to shine a light on events at the centre of Europe....

For the second year in a row Geneva ranked as the most expensive city in the world to buy a club sandwich in a list designed to show how affordable (or not) destinations around the world are for travellers....

Swiss citizens are expected to reject a referendum this weekend on whether to introduce the world's highest minimum wage, that would offer each and every worker at least $25 an hour....