The growth of booking platforms such as Airbnb is putting increasing pressure on housing markets in Swiss cities and tourist hotspots ... That is why several Swiss cities are tightening the rules ... .
Eye researchers at the Swiss city of Basel are hopeful of a breakthrough in the treatment for blind people after initial positive indications that a new form of therapy works. Blind people learning to see ... .
Chinese online retailers Temu and Shein are creating a flood of parcels into Switzerland. A Chinese logistics firm is looking to capitalise on this phenomenon. Massive advertising and aggressive low prices ... .
INR vs USD. According to analysts, a weaker rupee is a clear macroeconomic headwind for India because the country remains heavily dependent on imported crude oil and several other commodities ....
Switzerland’s glaciers lost vast amounts of ice in this summer’s baking heat. The changes are increasingly visible on the country’s maps ... Yet he can barely bring himself to look at the latest images ... .
From Bronze Age weapons to ancient animal remains, Switzerland's melting glaciers are yielding remarkable discoveries. Glacier archaeologist MarcelCornelissen is among the researchers racing to recover and study them before the ice disappears ... .
Switzerland relies on natural gas as part of its energy mix, both for heating and for industrial processes ... The situation is tense, says Daniela Decurtins, the director of the Association of the SwissGas Industry ... .
Ahead of its mid-term elections, the US has done something more typically associated with Russia... since 2002, OSCE election observers have been present at 12 federal elections in the US, including six mid-terms ... .
A new environmental study, seen by Swiss public broadcaster SRF, shows that around 150,000 litres of heating oil and fuel were located within the buried area ... .
The wrangling over UBS bank has led to a decision in the SwissSenate. Parliamentarians voted in favour of fairly tough capital requirements ... UBS is to underpin its foreign subsidiaries with 90% hard capital ... .
This summer's heatwaves caused around 600 excess deaths in Switzerland. Even people under 65 were affected ... Between June and September, around 600 additional people died in Switzerland ... .
Digital bank Revolut already has a million customers in Switzerland. Now the company is applying for a Swiss banking licence ... "A banking licence brings trust and prestige," explains SRF business editor Charlotte Jacquemart ... .
Swiss multinational Nestlé is losing control of part of its business in Russia. By presidential decree, two of Nestlé’s subsidiaries have been placed under Russian compulsory administration ... These arguments sound like pretexts ... .