This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only...UBS AG said Monday it wants to add Deutsche Lufthansa AG boss Wolfgang Mayrhuber to its board, completing a near-total revamp of the Swiss bank's supervisory body. Mr. Mayrhuber's election to the...
Janka took his third World Cup triumph in as many days on the Birds of Prey course after earlier victories in downhill and super combined on the last North American elite race before next February's Winter Olympics at Vancouver. World...
The Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) offered a $40,000 (£24,350) prize to the first person to locate ten big, red balloons raised on tethers across America on Saturday, from Portland, Oregon, to Miami, Florida. The goal was to...
Zurich :: Switzerland
| updated Sun Dec 06 18:14:51 -0800 2009
| business-news
THE ultra-low level of global interest rates may increase the risk of excessive risk-taking by banks, and consequently of new asset price bubbles, said a study published today by the Bank for International Settlements. A special report in the BIS's...
So this is how democracy works? In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young "defiant" Muslim girls who continued to cover their heads in school. Now, following a national referendum, Switzerland has banned the construction of minarets,...
Geneva :: Switzerland
| updated Sun Dec 06 16:32:31 -0800 2009
| political-news
The referendum, proposed by the right-wing Federal Democratic Union, was preceded by a campaign claiming that Switzerland was being "Islamisised". One poster that appeared in Swiss streets depicted a Swiss flag covered in missile-like minarets with a portrait of a...
Geneva :: Switzerland
| updated Sun Dec 06 09:01:27 -0800 2009
| political-news
The eccentric leader, who has been at odd with Bern since the July 2008 arrest of his son at a Geneva hotel, said the late November referendum would allow al-Qaeda to justify calls for an anti-Europe war. "Al-Qaeda militants are...
Zurich :: Switzerland
| updated Sun Dec 06 14:39:49 -0800 2009
| sports-news
Carlo Janka's magnificent season continued on Sunday as the Swiss skier claimed his third World Cup win in as many days with victory in the giant slalom on the Birds of Prey course. Janka, now a heavy favorite for Olympic...
Zurich :: Switzerland
| updated Sat Dec 05 20:23:43 -0800 2009
| political-news
Islamophobia and prejudice towards foreigners in Europe and further heighten tensions between Muslims and Christians. Mottaki had called his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey to say that a country claiming to be respectful of democracy and human rights should not have...
Zurich :: Switzerland
| updated Sun Dec 06 00:09:41 -0800 2009
| sports-news
After getting in some runs at Golden Peak in Vail, two-time Birds of Prey downhill champion Daron Rahlves was in the crowd at Beaver Creek Saturday to watch the race which helped him become the United States' best male speed...
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