This past weekend at the central station, the cops had a lot of work to do. Nine arrests were made as a consequence of 140 checks. At Zurich’s main station, a lady was attacked on Sunday night at approximately 8 o’clock. A witness reported seeing a woman on the ground to “20 Minuten.” “She was laying in a pool of blood, unconscious.” A guy continued to kick her.... 

Greek police have arrested ten Syrian migrants who were disguised as Ukrainian volleyball players. The group, who all wore matching tracksuits, was arrested at Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos airport after borders and customs officials discovered that they were using Ukrainian passports that were clearly not their own, and had been reported lost or stolen. According to police, the group had hoped... 

An Eritrean migrant facing murder charges after allegedly pushing a young boy onto train tracks in Frankfurt, Germany, was featured in a 2017 brochure promoting successful migrant integration in Switzerland. Habte Araya, 40, was “pictured in 2017 by the Swiss labour agency which had found him a job, and gave an interview in which he said he ‘liked almost everything about Switzerland,'”... 

The so-called sex-boxes were introduced in the world’s banking center Zurich five years ago after locals had voted for a $2 million plan for building one-car garages where prostitutes and clients could meet. Since then, the drive-ins have been working with a precision of a Swiss clock and even seen some bicycle-friendly improvements lately. The Zurich city council has told the Swiss news agency... 

In yet another example of the hoax that is “modern art,” cleaners at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel, where the “Harbour Art fair 2018” is being held, threw away one of the exhibits because they genuinely though it was trash. The exhibit, titled “Unhappy Meal” (a play on the McDonald’s “Happy Meal” menu) was a cardboard box with a “unhappy” emoji face, all in McDonald’s colors. According... 

Immigrants to Switzerland will be ineligible to apply for citizenship if they have used welfare in that country within the previous three years—unless they pay it all back, in terms of a tough new immigration law which has come into effect. The new law, officially named the Civil Rights Act, is based on legislation that had originally been tried and tested in cities such as Basel and Zurich. Although... 

Boston, Calgary, Perth and Macau – all associated with material wealth – have failed to make this list of the 15 richest cities in the world, compiled by market research firm New World Wealth. The data gathered by the researchers reflects the total amount of private wealth held by all the individuals living in each of the cities on the list. Unlike traditional ratings, this top 15 is not based... 

Three people were wounded in a shooting today near an Islamic Center in Zurich! This came after a terrorist drove a truck through a Berlin Christmas Market today killing at least 9 shoppers. The AP reported on the attack in Zurich: A gunman dressed in black stormed into the prayer hall of a mosque frequented by Somali immigrants and opened fire, wounding three people before fleeing, a Zurich police... 

If a visitor to Venezuela is unfortunate enough to pay for anything with a foreign credit card, the eye-watering cost might suggest they were in a city pricier than Tokyo or Zurich. A hamburger sold for 1,700 Venezuelan bolivares is $170, or a 69,000-bolivar hotel room is $6,900 a night, based on the official rate of 10 bolivares for $1. But of course no merchant is pricing at the official rate imposed... 

An absolutely astonishing Ministry of Defense (MoD) “urgent action report” just released in the Kremlin states that less than 24 hours after Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to meet in Zurich, Switzerland on 20 January, a US military “operated” aircraft carrying one of his top subordinates approached Federation airspace “demanding” immediate permission... 

Brussels has frozen research grants for Swiss universities worth hundreds of millions of euros in retaliation after Switzerland voted to cap the number of immigrants entering the country in a nationwide referendum. The retaliatory move by the EU comes just one day after Switzerland refused to sign a ‘freedom of movement’ agreement with Croatia, which would have given Croatians unrestricted access... 

The number of Americans who decided to renounce their citizenship in the second quarter of 2013 increased sixfold the same period in 2012, a number the federal government attributes to strict impending financial disclosure rules. The United States is the only country out of 34 in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that continues to tax citizens regardless of where they... 

Swiss banking giant UBS has announced plans to slash some 10,000 jobs worldwide. The largest bank in Switzerland, UBS AG, has announced plans to cut about 10,000 jobs worldwide, as the economic crisis in the European country continues to worsen. “This decision has been a difficult one, particularly in a business such as ours that is all about its people. Some reductions will result from natural... 

IBM images shoe detailed molecular bonds. A team of international researchers from the IBM in Zurich has published the first detailed single-molecule images of atomic bonds in fullerene. According to the report published in Science, the new study has examined fullerene, which has linked rings of carbon atoms at its core, using an atomic force microscopy or AFM. Their images show the length of the atomic... 

Chocolate factories in Switzerland are infuriated by US inspections on their universally-loved confectionery for bioterrorism or radioactive threats. Factories have no choice but allow checks; otherwise will they be banned from the profitable US market. ­At least 21 Swiss chocolate factories and 18 dairies are obliged to allow inspections of their work until September 20, German business journal...