America’s goods trade deficit with Switzerland reached $38 billion last year and nearly $48 billion in the first half of 2025, driven mainly by a surge in gold imports. Gold refining is a dominant ...

Jakob Schwiedrzik has been appointed head of Empa’s Laboratory for High-Performance Ceramics, bringing interdisciplinary expertise in mechanica ...

Today, mugshots often appear in news reports or feature in crime documentaries. But did you know they date back to the 1840s, ...

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about Zelenskyy saying the EU will play a major role in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction, the US ordering its embassies in the EU to lobby against the Digital ...

Modern science emerged precisely to deal with the way everything can be manipulated – and scepticism over ‘facts’ goes all ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced additional 25% tariff on India for its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the ...

So far, with the exception of February (-2.8%), the Swiss hotel industry has recorded an increase in overnight stays in every ...

Plus: Oil cartel reverses cuts to win back market share; BlueScope joins global consortium to bid for Whyalla: AFR; Palantir hires local lobbyist CMAX Advisory.

Switzerland is furious, Taiwan feels cheated, and several others refuse to give up hope for better trade deals.

Though the new tariffs are overall lower than the sky-high rates Trump announced in April, which managed the rare trifecta of crashing the stock, bond, and currency markets, his latest moves still ...

The European Union’s top court has ruled that some decisions by international governing bodies, such as FIFA and the IOC, can ...

Human rights experts, humanitarian groups, and even the US are calling for repatriation. Switzerland says it won’t support ...