Switzerland

90 goods trains a day will be able to travel through the Gotthard Base Tunnel from today, but repair work following a freight train derailment on August 10 will take months, the federal railways says, confirming support from neighboring Italy

Donato Kofel, an environmental engineer at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, said that through work on positive and negative effects of trees on air quality, he noticed that some plants are not only positive

The birth rate in the country reached an all-time low of 1,39 children per woman last year, below the European average and down 8,5% from the previous year, latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office show

Beginning today thru 12 August 2023, 76th edition of Locarno Film Festival will be Marco Solari's last as president, with 214 films on the programme, including 110 world premieres and six international premieres

It is mainly the over 60s who use legal products containing cannabinoids, according to a survey carried out by the Zurich marketing and market research agency 'Link’

Following the capture in January of Matteo Messina Denaro, head of Cosa Nostra, the Anti-Mafia District Directorate in Palermo, Italy has sent a new rogatory to Switzerland to clarify the boss dealings with Swiss funds, perpetrated for years

ETH Zurich moved up to 7th place in the university ranking, the Quacquarelli Symonds research announced, the highest in continental Europe, while other Swiss universities slipped down the table, with EPFL dropping twenty places this year to 36th

Swiss voters took part in three referendums, expressing their support for breakthrough measures on taxation, environmental policy and COVID-19, with a turnout of 42%

The first hydrogen filling station on the national motorway network, operated by the Swiss subsidiary of the Azerbaijani state-owned energy group Socar, was opened at the Grauholz rest area on the A1 in Bern

Swiss universities say the government’s planned 2% annual increase in education and research funding for 2025-2028 won't guarantee quality as it will probably be cancelled out by a rise in prices

The Federal Department of Finance has set up a group of experts to study the role of banks and 'too-big-to-fail' regulations in the Confederation

More than half of all Swiss cash in circulation - i.e. almost CHF 50 billion - is held in 1.000-franc notes; a significant portion of these notes may be held in other countries, according to Swiss National Bank Vice-President Schlegel

Tens of thousands of tourists, mainly from Asia, flock to the resort on the shores of Lake Brienz every month, paying 5 francs for a selfie, after it became famous for South Korean TV series Crash Landing on You; after criticism, authorities may step back