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Due to an accident at the Swiss city of Zürich, a car driver and two horses were killed on Sunday.

A bit of luck for customers of airline Cathay Pacific. Due to an error, they got a 90 percent discount on tickets for the first class on Sunday. Cathay has the sale right away...

Six people were killed early on Monday morning by a fire in a building in Solothurn in the north-west of Switzerland. The police reported that an unknown number of people with injuries were transferred to a hospital.

Spouses who fly helicopters to a dinner, expensive gold coins as gifts, drinking parties at the expense of the state: the Swiss army gets a lot of criticism because of excessive expense reports. As the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger said on Monday, in recent years several dinners were accompanied by a lot of wine and drinks.

The 27th edition of the Street Parade in the Swiss city of Zurich attracted a million people. More than 200 DJs and musicians made an appearance at the event, which is considered one of the biggest techno parties in the world.

Two aircraft crashed in Switzerland on Saturday. As a result, at least four people were killed.

Several people were killed in Switzerland when a historic plane crashed. The plane crashed into inhospitable mountains and was completely destroyed, authorities say. None of the occupants survived the crash, but the precise number of victims is not yet known.

The Swiss police have arrested one of the most popular fraud suspects in Great Britain. The 45-year-old Mark Acklom would have paid a woman 850,000 pounds (about 960,000 euros) by pretending to be the intelligence service MI6, reports British media. He then left with the northern sun.

Steve Bannon, former White House adviser, speaks Saturday in Lille, France, the party congress of the right-wing populist Front National. He also meets FN leader Marine Le Pen, tweeted her partner Louis Aliot.

Five robbers have stolen amazingly five million dollars (converted four million euros) on Sunday in Brazil from a plane operated by the German airline Lufthansa. According to Brazilian media, the crack lasted only six minutes.

The Netherlands is among the world leaders in countries that are good at educating, retaining and attracting talent. The Scandinavian countries score even better from the European countries.

The arrival of asylum seekers in Germany causes more crime, and especially North African men are responsible for this, while for example Syrians keep well-deserved. That appears from research published this week.

The Belgian nuclear watchdog registered nine nuclear incidents last year. That was less than in 2016, but last year there was an incident from a more serious category.

A lotto player in Switzerland can afford one or maybe two extra venison steaks at Christmas. He bought a ticket for 20 euros on Tuesday afternoon, which now turns out well for the first prize of 135 million euros.

The Swiss mountain village of Stoos can be reached from Sunday via the steepest railway in the world. In some places the train has to take a slope of 47.7 degrees.

The pilot of an Airbus A320 had to make an unscheduled stopover in Stuttgart because of a passenger who wanted more champagne. The 44-year-old woman from Switzerland went through the ribbon according to the police when the crew refused.

The public prosecutor in Switzerland has discontinued the investigation into a alleged rape by German actress Renate Langer by film director Roman Polanski. The investigation is terminated for procedural reasons because the case is banned according to the Swiss law.

In Switzerland sunday a huge piece of ice from a glacier broke down. Hundreds of thousands of cubic meters slide down. However, the ice lagoon that feared the village of Saas-Grund remained.

Rescuers are in a remote valley in the Swiss canton of Graubünden looking for eight people who have disappeared after a landslide. According to the authorities, there are people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Due to temperature rises, the glaciers in Switzerland can no longer be saved. Even with the greatest efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, about 90 percent of the glaciers will melt by 2100, according to glaciologist Matthias Huss from the University of Zurich on Thursday in the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.

According to the prosecutors in Zurich, a Swiss ex-banker has to enter the cell because of murder on a prostitute eighteen years. He had hidden the victim's body in his wine cellar after he had killed her in a hotel room by choking.

Not a Swiss police force, but the pizzeria's executioner has made it possible for the fugitive chain sawmaniac to be detained in the vicinity of Zurich on Tuesday night. Liman Kabashi recognized the 51-year-old Franz Wrousis immediately as he passed his case. The heroic pizza baker took the pursuit and alerted the police.

The Spanish government has suspended the arrested football boss Angel Maria Villar.

The chain sawmaniac was arrested by the Swiss police after more than 24 hours of hunting. The confused fifty injured two employees of a health insurance office in the town of Schaffhausen on Monday morning with a chain saw.

A peperdure and supercell Lamborghini has disappeared smoothly from Swiss Zurich. A 'nice, neat woman' took the car for a 'business trip' but did not return to the rental company. The woman and the exclusive bolide disappeared with the northern zone.

During a bachelor party in a Swiss village near Zurich, eighteen people were injured on Saturday by a tractor accident. The victims were in a tractor trailer. Three people are seriously injured, police report.

German air force jetists have seized a Korean Air Boeing 777 on Saturday night and forced to land at Stuttgart Airport. The aircraft was in transit with 211 passengers from Seoul to Zurich, Switzerland, when the radio contact was suddenly discontinued, a spokesperson said. After the plane landed, a technical defect was detected, police said.

The population of Switzerland is behind the government's plans to invest billions in renewable energy and a ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants. That is the outcome of Sunday's binding referendum in the country. According to preliminary figures, 58.2 percent voted for the plans.

Vienna is again the best city to live in. For the eighth consecutive year, the Austrian capital at the top of a list that is annually compiled by consulting firm Mercer on quality of life. Amsterdam is in twelfth place in the list published Tuesday.

Switzerland has no problem with the arrival of Mevlüt Cavusoglu is to make propaganda for the referendum in April. The Turkish Foreign Minister will speak Sunday in Zurich voting compatriots.