<p>The Swiss finance ministry announced Monday that it had taken legal action to secure the confiscation of Haiti ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's frozen Swiss millions after a 25-year court battle.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A Swiss anti-cancer </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">association has launched a new national cancer programme for 2011-2015 to help stop the disease from spreading</span>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swiss and US researchers have identified a strain of leprosy found in armadillos in dozens of people in the southern United States, indicating the skin disease can be transmitted directly from animals to humans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 26px;">Wine drinkers in Switzerland consumed 1.7 percent more in 2010 than the year before.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Switzerland said it will destroy its remaining 3.4 million unused doses of vaccines against the H1N1 virus by the end of the year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A new website for Swiss children and teenagers with alcoholic parents was launched in Bern this week in a novel attempt to deal with the problem</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">.</span></span><br /></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The Swiss are 40 times more likely than people elsewhere in Europe to develop the most dangerous form of skin cancer, according to new research.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Red eyes and itchy noses are no longer only problems for humans, according to veterinarians.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Swiss Federal Office of Statistics has released new figures on life expectancy, but there are large differences between regions.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">US investigators on Tuesday lodged a legal complaint against a Credit Suisse banker for fraud while working for UBS, a week after indicting four of his colleagues.</span></p>
Moving home provokes more stress than almost any major upheaval except death, divorce and delivery goes the tired cliché. So how does it rate if you throw in a change of country and culture? Looks like you might need our survival guide.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The benefits of finding a job in Switzerland are juicy: high wages, at least four weeks holiday and an unemployment safety net that beggars belief. But with fierce competition and vital paperwork, you need to do your homework before setting out, writes Marcus Berry.</span></p>
