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Bank secrecy for foreigners in Switzerland may be at an end (Reutrers)

Swiss banks may lose secrecy video

Switzerland will soon have to be more open about the bank details of foreigners after the European Commission changes its rules.

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The magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland (AAP file)

Have physicists found the 'God particle'?

The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the universe.

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Rescue service members walk in front of the wood processing plant of Kronospan following a shooting in Menznau near Lucerne (Reuters)

3 killed in Swiss workplace shooting

A longtime employee opened fire at a wood-processing company, in Switzerland's second multiple-fatality shooting in two months.

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nternational Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde addresses the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos

Big banks on defence at Davos video

If there is one place bankers should be able to let down their guard a little, you would think it would be at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Two trains have collided in Switzerland (file)

2 trains collide in Switzerland, injuries reported

Swiss media say two trains have collided in northern Switzerland and several people were injured.

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Medieval church debt wiped clean

A Swiss court has wiped out an annual debt that farmers have had to pay the Catholic Church for 655 years.

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A police car drives near a crime scene in the Swiss village of Daillon near Sion (Reuters)

Motive unclear in Swiss shooting

A shooting in southern Switzerland has left three women dead nad two men wounded.

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UBS Bank (Reuters)

Swiss bank UBS to cut 10,000 employees video

Swiss banking giant UBS AG is to cut as many as 10,000 employees, or some 15 percent of its staff, to drastically shrink its ailing investment bank.

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The man practiced as an unlicensed, self-styled acupuncturist (file)

Acupuncturist charged over HIV infections

A self-styled healer has been indicted by a Swiss court on charges that he intentionally infected 16 people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in cases going back more than a decade.

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Alan McCandlish in 2007 (Facebook)

NZ base jumper dies in Switzerland

A Kiwi man has died while base jumping in Switzerland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed.

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Belgian soldiers carry the coffin of one of the victims of the bus crash in Switzerland (Reuters)

Belgium holds service for victims of bus crash

King Albert II and thousands of mourners remembered the 28 victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel during a memorial service centring on the 22 schoolchildren whose promise of youth was shattered by sudden death.

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Flowers and other tributes are seen in front of the 't Stekske school in Lommel, as people pay their respects to the victims of the bus crash in Sierre, Switzerland (Reuters)

Sobbing families identify Swiss bus crash victims video

Relatives of the 28 people killed when a bus from Belgium crashed inside a Swiss tunnel faced a heartbreaking task: identifying the bodies ahead of their repatriation. Most of the dead were children.

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The Belgian people have been paying tribute to the victims. A girl places flowers outside a school some victims attended (Reuters)

Belgium in mourning for bus crash victims video

The Belgian prime minister declared today a national day of mourning for the 28 who died in a bus crash.

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Flowers and candles are seen after a "white march" for victims near the site of the bus crash in Sierre (Reuters)

Parents, classmates and rescue workers mourn bus crash video

A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 Belgian students and six adults and instantly changing a joyous skiing vacation into a tragedy spanning two European nations.

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Relatives, parents and teachers at the Sint Lambertus school in Belgium (Reuters)

Swiss bus crash kills 28, including 22 children video

A tourist bus crashed head-on into a concrete wall in a Swiss Alps tunnel, killing 28 people, mostly children returning from a ski vacation. Swiss police say it was not speeding at the time.

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A helicopter takes off from the entrance of a tunnel into which a foreign coach crashed in Sierre (Reuters)

28 dead in Switzerland bus crash - reports

A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds and six adults.

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Switzerland: Deadly explosion in Yverdon-les-Bains

Swiss police say one person has died and 14 are injured after an explosion at an apartment block in the western city of Yverdon-les-Bains.

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A Mexican red-kneed tarantula

Swiss seize suitcase full of smuggled spiders

Swiss customs officials say they intercepted a man at Zurich airport carrying hundreds of endangered spiders in his luggage.

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Swiss chocolatiers stress quality over quantity

Switzerland's leading chocolate makers are trying to convince their countrymen to embrace quality over quantity.

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Swiss bank UBS Chief Executive Oswald Gruebel (Reuters)

Rogue trader costs Swiss bank US$2 billion video

One man armed with only a computer terminal humbled a venerable banking institution yet again. This time it was Swiss powerhouse UBS, which says it lost roughly $2 billion because of a renegade trader.

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