A Swiss laboratory team has arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah to prepare for the exhumation of former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, Palestinian sources said on Monday.
Frustrated over a lack of action to counteract drug dealers in downtown Lausanne, a city resident has launched a Facebook page to combat the illegal activity.
Lab-dish tests in Switzerland have raised hopes that a soil bacterium identified nearly 60 years ago could be a "very selective killer" of the germ that causes tuberculosis, a European journal reported on Monday.
Researchers in Switzerland said on Monday a new computerized model of part of a rat's cortex predicts connections between neurons, which could help explain how the brains of mammals -- including humans -- work.
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.
A Swiss radiology lab said Friday it has received the go-ahead from the widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to
test his remains for poisoning by polonium, a highly radioactive element.
Usain Bolt eased to victory in the 200m at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday as Jamaican teammate Yohan
Blake became the second fastest 100m performer of all time.
Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt and his young Jamaican compatriot Yohan Blake will not race each other again this
season, Blake's manager, Cubee Seegobin, indicated on Wednesday.
<p>The Palestinian president will call on Swiss experts who probed Yasser Arafat's death to take<br /> samples from his body for further tests, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.</p>
<p>A professor at a Swiss university on Tuesday unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, news agency ATS reported.</p>
<p>The trial has begun in Lausanne of a man who stabbed his wife 35 times and slit her throat, just moments after she had called the police to report a suspected case of domestic violence next door. <strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Two police officers accused of pepper-spraying a 16-year-old Eritrean boy are to face a judge for the third time after the highest criminal court in canton Vaud accepted his appeal request. </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Swiss Movement against Islamisation</span><span lang="EN-GB"> (MOSC) has said it will appeal a Fribourg district court decision blocking it from setting up a stand in the western town<strong>. </strong></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" lang="EN-GB">Scientists at Lausanne University have concluded that the human brain develops slower than human testicles, and that human brain activity is strikingly comparable to the duck-billed platypus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">A woman was killed in Lausanne on Thursday after she was struck by a car that rolled down a hill without a driver. <br /></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The mother of an 11-month-old baby who was attacked by a pit bull in Préverenges, near Lausanne, is appealing a ruling that cleared the animal’s owner of any wrongdoing. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A dog sitter who was walking a pit bull on a leash along the streets of Préverenges, near Lausanne, was convicted of negligence a year and a half after the dog attacked an 11-month-old baby.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Seven people are going on trial in Lausanne in one of Switzerland's largest ever art theft and forgery cases, involving paintings by artists including Degas and Pissaro.</span></p>
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