Bern News

A bear in a Swiss zoo nearly mauled to death a 25-year old intruder – the bear had to be shot by the police to save the intruder. It is good to love animals, they enhance the beauty of the...

It seems that more and more our desire for freedom and democracy it actually limits our choices, our actual freedom and all those things we wished and fought for. I am amazed by the direction ourr need for protection has...

But scientists at the £3.6-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the Big Bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a “bit of baguette” into the machine, causing it to overheat. European particle physics laboratory...

Switzerland's row with Libya took a new turn on Wednesday when the government announced that it was suspending a treaty aimed at normalising relations with Tripoli. Libya's "systematic refusal" to cooperate with Switzerland in the case of two Swiss businessmen...

Mechanics Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser and Peter Gehr from the University of Bern and Michael Riediker from the Institute for Work and Health, Lausanne, worked with a team of researchers to study such effects. "Brake wear contributes up to 20 percent of...

Switzerland — Swiss skier Lara Gut has had more surgery on her dislocated right hip and is not expected to race until a month before the Vancouver Olympics open Feb. 12. Gut spokesman Roberto Mazza said she will use crutches...

More than 14,700 Americans disclosed secret offshore bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, ensuring billions of dollars in new tax collections and data for a crackdown on evaders, Commissioner Doug Shulman said yesterday. Shulman reported the voluntary disclosures under...

The Federal Commission against Racism says posters for the rightwing Swiss People's Party's anti-minaret campaign "incite hatred". On Wednesday Lausanne followed Basel in outlawing the posters in publicly-owned spaces while Geneva rejected the ban on free-speech grounds.

A 70 centimeter (27.6 in) zander on Lake Maggiore , Switzerland was killed by police divers after it attacked several swimmers over the weekend. The fish weighed eight kilograms, or 17.5 pounds. The fish bit six bathers, two of whom...