<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" lang="EN-GB">Swiss Federal Railways has agree to put measures in place to protect employees working in an alley below the tracks from faeces and urine dumped by older model train carriages. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ueli Prager, the founder of the Swiss hotel and restaurant group Mövenpick, died on Saturday at the age of 95, according to his family.</span><br /></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Education officials in Zurich have issued a new directive restricting access to international schools, effectively removing the alternative for children who live in Switzerland on a permanent basis. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Construction workers at the main railway station in Zurich have issued an ultimatum to rail operator SBB, threatening to stop working if excrement continues to fall from </span><span lang="EN-GB">the ceiling of an alleyway they are building.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Swiss authorities are preparing to implement tough measures to prevent violence among hooligans from rival football teams.</span></p>
<p>A Zurich butcher shop has received a rap on the knuckles from a Swiss advertising standards authority that deemed as sexist <span lang="EN-GB">a suggestive picture of a leggy woman depicted alongside the slogan: “the best meat in town”.</span></p>
<p>A Zurich-bound Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 reportedly carrying Formula 1 racer Sebastien Vettel was forced to land in Frankfurt before arriving at its destination three hours late on Wednesday.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;" lang="EN-GB">Lawyers and parents have criticised public prosecutors for continuing to detain 14 young men suspected of taking part in the recent Zurich riots, saying they are being held in custody for political reasons to send out a deterrent message to others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">If the youth riots in Zurich continue, the Swiss army should be called on to come to the aid of the city’s police, according to a Zurich politician.</span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 24.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; color: #434343; mso-ansi-language: DE;" lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;">Fifteen-year-old Leonie Schärer has become only the third girl ever to win Knabenschiessen, a traditionally male shooting competition held annually in Zurich. <br /></span></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;" lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;">Swiss cities Zürich and Geneva remain second and third in a UBS global cost of living ranking, while Oslo in Norway is the most expensive city in which to live.</span></span></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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