<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A 27-year-old Swiss woman has been sentenced to ten years in prison after she killed a 4-year-old girl in a sect-like community </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">in the Zurich highlands </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">ruled with an iron fist by a man who believed he was Jesus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: DE;" lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;">Prostitutes from Hungary are increasingly being sent to work in the red light district on Sihlquai in the centre of Zurich, but they don’t see themselves as victims of trafficking, according to a Swiss researcher.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some 90 people were arrested in the Swiss financial city of Zurich during the weekend after violent clashes between youth gangs and security forces, police said on Sunday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Zurich city parliament on Wednesday rubber-stamped a loan earmarked for the construction of <span lang="EN-GB">drive-in sex stalls where punters can meet prostitutes at purpose-built venues away from the city centre.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;">A Zurich city council committee has agreed to seek a 2.4-million franc loan ($2.8m) to build a new red light district where punters can meet prostitutes at purpose-built stalls away from the city centre.</span></span></p>
<p>Swiss government minister Doris Leuthard has apologized for likening Germans campaigning against noise pollution from Zürich airport to Taliban terrorists. </p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A Swiss couple has accused security staff at Zürich airport of swiping €155 from their baggage during a routine check.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having sex in public is permissible if you are discreet, a top police officer has said ahead of the Streetparade techno festival. Just don't run naked through the streets.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the first time in Switzerland, foetuses have been operated on while they were still inside their mothers' wombs, the University Children's Hospital in Zürich reported on Thursday.</p>
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<p>Two Italian environmental activists and a Swiss colleague went on trial on Tuesday for planning a bomb attack against an IBM research centre which was being built near Zurich.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A programme on a local Zurich radio airs what it calls “acoustic porn,” hoping to inspire people to make love, a report say.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FC Basel sealed their 14<sup>th</sup> Swiss Super League Championship on Wednesday night, with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a 3-0 home win over Lucerne. Basel have now won the title three times in the last four seasons.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Voters have decided that toddlers at Zürich kindergartens will only learn Swiss German in future, instead of the standard language spoken in Germany.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">The city of Zurich is preparing to ring in the spring with a bang and burning Bööggs, as it celebrates the traditional '</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Sechseläuten.'</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Low taxes and ideal locations help make Zug and Zurich hotspots for setting up companies in Switzerland, a new study has found.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Zurich city council has approved tougher measures for unruly school kids, allowing them to be expelled for up to three months.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Picturesque Zurich is generally associated with a safe and crime-free quality of life. Now official figures show that life in Switzerland's largest city is getting even safer.</span></p>
