Apple wants to trademark an image of an apple in Switzerland, and this could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its logo.

Interestingly, Sun-Ways isn't the first company to have started rolling out solar panels on railway tracks.

The five rappen cost in 2016 saw the number of plastic bags being used, and then thrown away, fall by 84% in the first year, according to official figures. Since then, consumers have continued to snub plastic bags at the checkout, reports the Tages Anzeiger newspaper. Consumers either take their own bags shopping or buy environmentally-friendly cellulose versions.

Decades after pioneering prescription heroin and safe injection sites, Switzerland is now experimenting with decriminalising recreational cannabis. It’s being done in a very Swiss way, according to addiction experts: taking things slow and steady to see how the population responds.

Made up of 100 cars and stretching for 1,906 meters, an electric-powered train has spiraled out of the Swiss mountains to smash a world record as part of celebrations to mark the 175th anniversary of the country's railways.

After nearly seven decades, the idea of a Swiss Grand Prix is a weirdly realistic possibility now.

Switzerland has voted for a new ‘presumed consent’ system on organ donations, which makes everyone a potential donor after their death—unless ‘opted out’ by the individual during their lifetime. The Federal Council and Parliament proposed the legal change on 15 May 2022, which was approved by over 60 per cent of voters with the aim to boost chances of patients on the waiting list and save more lives in the country.

Supporters of a mandatory investment by online entertainment platforms into the Swiss film industry are heading for victory in Sunday’s referendum.

Storing radioactive waste above ground is a risky business, but the Swiss think they have found the solution: burying spent nuclear fuel deep underground in clay. The Mont Terri international laboratory was built to study the effects of burying radioactive waste in clay which sits 300 metres (985 feet) below the surface near Saint-Ursanne in the northwestern Jura region.

A survey has highlighted the disparity in engineer salaries around the world, with US developers pocketing far more than their British equivalents. The report, from gamified programming outfit Codingame, was culled from its community of two million developers (along with tech recruiters) and showed that the US remained the top-paying country for software engineers, with an average annual salary of $95,879.

Massive leak reveals Swiss bank’s accounts have been used by an array of high-risk clients over several decades

Switzerland has done something that has been a taboo for years considering the morality of the objective. Switzerland has legalized suicide! However, if we have to be more precise then we have to say that Switzerland has legalized a safe way to take your own life if you so desire it.

The sarco pods allow users to push a button from the inside, which floods the interior with nitrogen, lowering the oxygen level, killing the user painlessly.

Ruling says email services not subject to data retention rules.

Scientists in Switzerland have developed a new type of wood flooring that generates power when it's walked on.

Swiss voters on Sunday looked set to back a proposal to open civil marriage and the right to adopt children to same-sex couples, according to early indications published by Swiss broadcaster SRG.

Swiss same-sex couples have won the right to marry after voters overwhelmingly backed its legalization in a referendum. The vote was brought about by conservative politicians opposed to LGBTQ+ marriages.

Most people know the value of Pi as 3.1416, but it's gotten longer and longer over the years as researchers try to find its most accurate calculation. A team from the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden in Switzerland now claims it has broken the world record for computing for the mathematical constant: It said it has calculated for 62.8 trillion digits of Pi. The current record holder, Timothy Mullican, calculated up to 50 trillion digits and was recognized for his work last year.

Switzerland's 15th-Century farmers and vintners had a dangerously creative solution to irrigating their mountainous land that's still in use today.

Swiss police have investigated an eight-year-old boy after he allegedly asked whether he could use a toy banknote in a village shop. The fake euro note was Chinese joss paper “spirit money” – used as symbolic burnt offerings at funerals to ensure the dead have a happy afterlife, according to the Basler Zeitung (BaZ) newspaper.