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Christoph Blocher, the controversial figurehead of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, is to quit parliament at the end of May....

Pakistan is to hold talks with Switzerland on a new tax treaty in the hope of retrieving state assets illegally stashed in the Swiss banking system....

A restaurateur in Losone in the canton of Ticino has come up with a novel way of reducing the amount of food thrown away....

Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse says that resolving a dispute with Washington over its past assistance to US tax dodgers is a top priority....

The figurehead and strongman of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party has announced he will be leaving the House of Representatives at the end of May to focus on what he calls his “political priorities”. (Photo: Keystone) ...

The world's biggest temporary staffing group, Swiss-based Adecco, on Thursday announced a better-than-expected net profit for the first quarter, confirming that the long-depressed European market is on the rebound....

Swiss-based mining and commodities giant Glencore Xstrata announced Thursday that it had made former BP chief Tony Hayward's interim stint as company chairman permanent....

The ICRC appealed on Thursday for a record budget to help Syrians affected by the humanitarian catastrophe in their war-ravaged country, in the largest funding of an operation since the 1990s Balkan wars....

Russia on Thursday accused the United States at a World Trade Organization session in Geneva of breaching the rules of global commerce by slapping sanctions on its banking sector over the Ukraine crisis....

The shocking Fukushima nuclear disaster, two angry Swiss citizens, one idea, one vote. This is the story behind the popular initiative to force the closure of the ageing Mühleberg nuclear plant, which will be decided by canton Bern voters on May 18. (Photo: Franziska Herren) ...

Whisk, a Labrador retriever in the canine squad of the city of Lausanne’s police department, is making history....

A Zurich district court on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old man from the canton of Basel Country to four and half years in jail in Switzerland’s first major “sexting” case....

Switzerland needs to change its agreement with Italy over the taxation of cross-border workers to make it less appealing for them to work in the canton of Ticino, Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says....

After more than 14 years of discussions and stumbling blocks, work to turn screen legend Charlie Chaplin's Swiss home into a museum has finally begun, with the opening planned in early 2016....

Several works in his collection suspected of having been looted from Jewish families during Nazi era A Swiss museum has inherited one of the most controversial art collections in recent European history. Kunstmuseum Bern confirmed on Wednesday it has been named the "unrestricted and unfettered sole heir" in the will of the reclusive collector Cornelius Gurlitt, who died on Tuesday. Several...

The jobless rate in Switzerland fell for a second consecutive month in April to 3.2 percent from 3.3 percent in March, according to government figures released on Wednesday....

The canton of Geneva must fork over more than three million francs to cover legal fees for the former head of the cantonal bank (BCGE) after he was acquitted of wrongdoing over massive losses suffered by the bank in the 1990s, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. ...

Zurich-based FIFA, the planet's governing body for football, have "been through hell" over this summer's World Cup in Brazil, according to general secretary Jérôme Valcke....

A vast Nazi-era art collection belonging to Cornelius Gurlitt will head to a museum in Bern following the death of the German recluse on Tuesday....

A group of nomadic Jenish people hit the headlines in late April when they arrived in the capital Bern, and set up camp to protest the lack of places made available to them. Switzerland’s “most attractive town”, for example, has “no interest” in respecting their rights. (Photo: Keystone) ...