The leading opposition politician Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza has been arrested in the East African country of Rwanda.

Its aim is to create maximum transparency, the Federal Council announced. The government therefore decided to open the consultation process before the referendum. Interested parties now have until ...

According to the sales data published by Galaxus and Digitec on Friday, American brands accounted for 17.5 percent of sales in May. This is only a small drop compared to the previous year's share of ...

In the US state of Georgia, a woman was diagnosed with brain death following a medical emergency in February. Nevertheless, she was kept on life support for over three months because she was pregnant ...

The first decommissioning of a nuclear power plant in Switzerland has reached the halfway mark. Halfway through the eleven-year nuclear phase of dismantling the Mühleberg nuclear power plant, work is ...

US R&B singer Chris Brown has pleaded not guilty after being charged with attempted grievous bodily harm in the UK. This was reported by the PA news agency from the courtroom in London. The ...

Core inflation, which indicates the year-on-year increase in consumer prices in Japan excluding fresh food, rose from 3.5 to 3.7 percent according to official figures on Friday. Rice prices rose by ...

The federal government should be able to combat shortages of inexpensive and frequently used medicines more effectively in future. The federal government is proposing a new constitutional article to ...

This weekend, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a big party. The place for art and culture is dedicated to the life and work of its namesake and shows why Paul ...

US President Donald Trump wants to decide within the next two weeks whether the US will intervene in the war against Iran ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to become the hero of the popular animated film series "Prostokvashino". The studio will draw him as a film character, announced the head of the cinema production ...

The man was swimming with colleagues in the Limmat, as the Zurich city police reported on Thursday. When they could no longer ...