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Swiss authorities have 1 585 "suspicious activity reports" for 2012 for suspected money-laundering, involving $3.3bn - just six of the reports accounted for almost half of all the money.
The EU appears set to impose a two-year ban on the use of insecticides blamed for a sharp and worrying decline in bee populations.
In an age when most people carry smartphones that can tell the time - on top of hundreds of other applications - watchmakers are increasingly focused on selling their goods as luxury items.
A Swiss prisoner jailed for violent crime in 2009 has died after launching a hunger strike more than 10 weeks ago to try to win his freedom.
An anti-graft body says it has new evidence that the Angolan president received millions in kickbacks in the late 1990s, part of an allegedly dodgy debt repayment deal between Angola and Russia.
A bejewelled golden egg stolen four years ago in Geneva and worth an estimated $1.3m, has been recovered by French police near the Swiss border.
Switzerland does not need to consider an automatic exchange of information with tax authorities in the European Union, its president says.
A four-man heist team has made off with jewels and watches worth hundreds of thousands of euros in a daytime armed robbery of one of Zurich's most prominent watch stores.
The field of candidates to lead the World Trade Organisation shrank to five as the Jordanian, Kenyan, Costa Rican and Ghanaian contestants have been asked to withdraw.
One of six people wounded when a gunman opened fire at a Swiss factory in February has died from his injuries, bringing the death toll to five, including the shooter.
A $2bn experiment on the International Space Station is on the verge of explaining one of the more mysterious building blocks of the universe.
Swiss premium chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli has lost a court battle to protect its gold foil-wrapped Easter bunnies from imitation by a German rival.
A South African neuroscientist hopes to uncover new information on mental disorders by building the world's first digital brain.
A British man and his 12-year-old son have been found dead in the Mont-Blanc massif that spreads around Europe's highest peak.
Swiss police have stormed the Bern home of a self-proclaimed healer who failed to turn up for his trial on charges of injecting 16 people with HIV-tainted blood.
