GENEVA, Switzerland – Adriana Lima, Ewan McGregor, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Spacey and other “beautiful people” were in Geneva a few days ago attending the 2014 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie or Geneva Time Exhibition.
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New Harvard-Geneva Master’s Program
GENEVA – The Geneva Graduate Institute and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University will establish a dual degree master program that can be obtained in two years instead of three.
Swiss Invent Device to Prevent Falls, Useful for Sports
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – A small device that can evaluate parameters associated with walking could be a helpful option for determining the risk of a fall in a person, but specifically, an elderly person.
Geneva marihuana bust leaves three arrested
GENEVA, Switzerland – Geneva police seized 6kg of marijuana and arrested three people, Friday 10 January, during a drug bust in an apartment, which had been under surveillance, in Châtelaine, Geneva. A 38-year-old man from Sierra Leone who lived at the apartment was arrested along with a 34-year-old Gambian resident of Spain, and a 33-year-old Senegalese…
The Winter Classic Geneva-Lausanne video
GENEVA, Switzerland -29,000 spectators crowded the Stade de Genève for the first outdoor ice hockey game between Lausanne and Geneva. The only goal of the game was scored in overtime by Austrian Olivier Setzinger, 30, the top scorer for HSC Lausanne and also a member of the Austrian national ice hockey team. Vidéo: Lausanne remporte…
Turn your headlights on, it’s the new Swiss law
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Swiss Council for Accidents Prevention or Bureau de prévention des accidents, has mandated that as of 1 January 2014 all cars in Switzerland must drive with their headlights on during the day.
Vote for the worst company: Public Eye Awards
BERN, Switzerland – The Swiss organization, Declaration de Berne, founded in 1968 to “promote development as a collective and egalitarian process,” organizes each year a public voting on what it considers to be some of the world’s worst companies in terms of sustainable development and labor rights. The 2014 “candidates” include companies such as fashion giant…
Geneva: Drink-driver stops to purchase highway permit
GENEVA, Switzerland – This could be a case of extreme responsibility, or extreme drunkenness. A French woman, 46, was arrested on the evening of 6 January after stopping -voluntarily- at the Bardonnex customs point of entry to purchase a Swiss highway permit or vignette… while clearly intoxicated. According to Geneva’s cantonal police, officers noticed she smelled of alcohol…
Sneak Peek of Bruce Springsteen’s New Album
GENEVA – Bruce Springsteen fans in Geneva are gearing up for next week’s official release of The Boss’s 18th studio album, High Hopes. The New Jersey native’s new album is a collection of cover songs -many of them well-known among his true, hard-core fans- originals and older songs “dusted off and reanimated,” as Billboard has called them….
Two Women Run Over in Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland – Two women aged 21 and 22, were run over by a car while crossing the Quai Wilson near the Mont-Blanc Bridge on 4 January. Police said one of the women, 22, a South African national, is in serious condition. The other one, a German national, 21, was slightly wounded as a result of the…
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