Lacoste is to pass into Swiss hands after its chairman, the last member of the founding family to hold shares in the green crocodile brand of clothing, agreed on Wednesday to sell them to the Maus Frères textile and retail group.
Chinese-born writer and Swiss resident Elizabeth Comber, whose autobiographical novel was turned into the popular American film "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing", has died, aged 95.
The acquittal by an Athens court of a journalist for publishing the names of 2,059 Greeks on a list of Swiss account holders puts in doubt a planned new tax treaty between Greece and Switzerland.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's fate was sealed in Geneva on Monday, as the sport's under-fire world governing body decided to back a life ban for doping and strip him of his record seven Tour de France titles.
The world's biggest temporary employment agency, Adecco, announced on Wednesday a 4.5-percent fall in sales in the first two months of the third quarter.
World number one Roger Federer won both his singles matches as Switzerland beat the Netherlands 3-2 in a Davis Cup play-off to secure a place in next year's World Group.
US authorities have awarded former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld a $104 million reward for blowing the whistle on the
Swiss bank's tax fraud, a whistleblowers group said Tuesday.
Scientists in Switzerland and the United States on Sunday said they had created a "nano-velcro" textile that offers a swift, sensitive and low-cost way of detecting mercury, a toxic and accumulative pollutant, in water and fish.
US attempts to clean up on tax evasion took a new twist when a Geneva banker's two teenage children were detained when they arrived on US soil, it was reported Monday.
<p>Switzerland was on Tuesday named the world leader in innovation by a UN agency report that also warned of a two-speed Europe linked to the global economic crisis.</p>
<p>FC Basel were crowned champions of <span class="il">Switzerland</span> for the 15th time on Sunday after a 3-1 defeat of Lausanne which left the club with an 18-point lead over nearest rival Lucerne with five matches to go.</p>
<p>Switzerland voted against more holidays, while Zurich approved an initiative to shift the sex trade out of the city centre in just two of a series of federal and local referenda held on Sunday. </p>
<p>Swiss police began a search on Wednesday for two skiers who may have been swept away after an avalanche was triggered on an off-piste slope at the Swiss ski resort of Les Diablerets.</p>
<p>Hashim Thaci will not file a legal claim against Swiss politician Dick Marty who wrote a Council of Europe report linking the Kosovo prime minister to organ trafficking in the 1990s, media reported on Thursday.</p>
<p>Swiss banking giant UBS said on Thursday it had lost $2 billion (€1.46 billion) through unauthorised trading, after London police arrested a man suspected of committing the massive fraud.</p>
<p>This week, owners of more 50 amphibious vehicles brought their World War 2-era military transporters, jeeps and vintage-style cars to Switzerlands St Blaise for their annual European gathering.</p>
<p>The new Ivory Coast government has filed a criminal complaint against ousted former strongman Laurent Gbagbo in Switzerland for money laundering and to recover millions of dollars he squirreled away in Swiss banks, a lawyer defending the state said on Monday.</p>
<p>A Swiss solar-powered aircraft is set to fly to Brussels as early as next week in what would be its first international flight, the project manager said on Thursday.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: small;">The Swiss economy grew 2.6 percent in 2010, reversing a contraction of 1.9 percent in 2009, the economy ministry said on Tuesday.</span></p>
<p>Major car makers are set to dazzle visitors to the Geneva motor show over the coming week with a touch of luxury, but China and emerging markets will be firmly in mind at the European showcase.</p>
<p>Switzerland has ordered an immediate freeze on any assets that may belong to defiant Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi and his entourage, the Swiss foreign ministry said in a statement.</p>
<p>An elderly Swiss woman has been trampled to death in Thailand, after elephants that she and other tourists were riding began fighting with each other.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and his entourage have assets in Switzerland worth tens of millions of dollars, the Swiss foreign ministry said on Sunday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">The Uzbek president's daughter controlled central Asia's hydrocarbons market through a Swiss-based firm, according to leaked US diplomatic cables.</span></p>
