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Environmental activist Nicolas Presti will serve two months in prison from Tuesday. He chose time behind bars over paying a fine.

Switzerland’s green credentials have suffered a setback after missing out on a top 20 spot in the annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI).

The Federal Technology Institute Zurich (ETH), one of Switzerland’s leading universities, is expanding into Germany.

In Switzerland, around one in four apprenticeship contracts is terminated prematurely.

The Swiss Federal Railways timetable comes into force on Sunday providing better connections to ski slopes.

The Swiss artist Ted Scapa has died at the age of 92. The family confirmed a report by the news portal blick.ch to the news agency Keystone-SDA. Scapa was born in Amsterdam in 1931. The illustrator became known to a wide audience through the childrens programme Das Spielhaus (The playhouse) on Swiss television in the 1960s and 1970s. As a cartoonist, Scapa drew for the international press for many years and published numerous childrens books and cartoon collections. Scapa usually creates a serie...

Robots that mimic animals are now being adapted for use in disaster relief.

The number of accidents involving electric scooters has increased 20-fold in a short space of time.

The Swiss public will vote on the biodiversity initiative. The Senate has rejected the government’s counterproposal for the second time.

The plans to renovate the barracks of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in the Vatican have cleared a significant hurdle.