The pharmaceutical group Roche has again toppled Nestlé from its throne thanks to recent share price rise. Good performance by the pharmaceutical group and significant losses in the shares of the food giant have led to a switch at the top. Nestlé currently has a market capitalisation of around CHF230 billion compared to CHF232 billion for Roche. This...

The giant Swiss flag will once again be displayed on the face of the Säntis mountain for the August 1 festivities. After failing to make an appearance last year due to bad weather, the huge flag, measuring 6,400 square meters and weighing more than 700 kilograms, will be unfurled along the mountain's north slope on July 31 at 10:30 a.m. Everything will,...

President Viola Amherd does not rule out a Winter Olympics in Switzerland in 2038. However, they would have to be sustainable and take place on a smaller scale, she said on Friday at the Maison Suisse in Paris. She expressed her best wishes to the Swiss athletes at the Paris Olympic Games. With 128 participants, the Swiss delegation is the largest since...

Switzerland is sending 17 police officers to Paris to support French security forces during the Olympic Games. Seven on the team are part of bomb squads, nine are handlers of explosives detection dogs and one is accompanied by a trained attack dog. The officers belong to the cantonal police forces of Bern, Geneva, Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Vaud, Zug and...

The Graubünden public prosecutor's office has charged five people with multiple negligent homicide in connection with the deadly Bondo rockslide that occurred seven years ago. The Maloja Regional Court must decide whether they misjudged the danger at the time. The regional court must decide whether, by failing to close footpaths, the five defendants...

A women fell down the east face of the iconic mountain on Thursday, from an altitude of some 3,460 metres above sea level. Third parties who witnessed the fall alerted rescue services, who could only confirm that the woman had died of her injuries, Valais cantonal police said. Formal identification is underway. According to police, the climber had left...