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A 4-year-old girl was killed in an accident on the ski-run in Switzerland. The Swiss child collided with another skier and was seriously injured. She died Friday night...

'I am completely devastated.' Dannie Whitford swallows, and falls silent. He does not know it anymore. Storm Florence has made his home uninhabitable.

It is scaring in New Bern. Residents of the little town in North Carolina who return from their hiding places see the damage of Florence with displeasure. The hurricane has kept a good hold- and the danger has not yet passed.

Justice in Switzerland wants to prosecute two Russians to carry out 'a cyber attack' on the world anti-doping agency WADA in Lausanne. In 2016, WADA itself reported that a large batch of medical data from athletes had been captured in a cyber-burglary.

Switzerland demands that Russia stop espionage on its territory. In the past few days two new possible espionage cases have come to light. In The Hague, two people would have been arrested who possibly wanted to hack a Swiss research laboratory. The same men would also have stolen data from the world anti-doping office. That office is located in Switzerland.

Hurricane Florence leaves a trail of vandalism in the United States. Because of the storm, trees are blown away and streets run under water. In the city of New Bern, according to CNN, at least two hundred people were saved who had been in trouble because of high water.

Switzerland has suspended its donations to the British aid organization Oxfam. The reason is the (sexual) misconduct of aid workers after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010.

A whirlwind has blown a railway car out of the rails in Switzerland. The accident occurred north of the village of Lenk in the Bernese Oberland. The wagon has landed on its side next to the track and eight people have been injured. But the mayor of Lenk, René Müller, said that things went well under certain circumstances.

The Swiss plans for immigration quotas for EU citizens have the job. In 2014, talked a slight majority of Swiss voted in a referendum for strict annual quota for foreigners.

A comet appears to contain two important building blocks of life on Earth. The boulder 67P / Tsjoerjoemov-Gerasimenko are glycine and phosphorus. That the University of Bern and the European Space Agency announced Friday.

While the European Central Bank the € 500 banknote has been banned, the Swiss government late today retained the banknote with the highest value.

Switzerland on Friday a bill was revealed that it would hold from 2019 to EU citizens outside the door. Bern wants to set a limit to the number of EU citizens who settles every year in the country. That is contrary to the agreements made in Brussels by the European Union.

Swiss doctors have separated conjoined twins of eight days old. It is the first time that such an intervention is successful in such young children, the hospital said in Bern. Doctors speak of a medical sensation.

Comet 67P / Churyumov- Gerasimenko contains oxygen molecules. Presumably, the oxygen is already included during the formation of the comet. According to research from the European Rosetta spacecraft circling around the comet, so the Dutch Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) announced Wednesday.

Aid organization Doctors Without Borders wants an international Swiss-based body examines the US attack on the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. It is founded in the 1991 International Humanitarian Fact -Finding Commission ( IHFFC ), stands in a statement distributed Wednesday by MSF . It would be the first mission of this committee that sits in Bern .