…a statement quoted by Reuters news agency. On Sunday, a senior police official denied media reports that the suspects had confessed to their involvement in the crime. The victim, who is reported to be 39 years old, and her husband had been cycling from Orchha to Agra, to see the Taj Mahal, a distance of about 155 miles, when they decided to camp for the night in a forested area. One report cited t…
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…year-old son and a 21-year-old friend. A mountain guide who spoke to the party the night before their ascent said they might have slipped on ice hidden by fresh snow. “There was rain up to about 3,500m and perhaps a little fresh snow [at the summit), so they probably slipped because there was ice underneath the snow,” Arthur Anthamatten told the AFP news agency. He had met the party at…
Jul 4 2012 | Posted in
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…sh families, who can trace their roots back to Switzerland, typically farm using methods from the 1800s and they don’t own cars or televisions. The researchers surveyed 157 Amish families, about 3,000 Swiss farming families, and close to 11,000 Swiss families who did not live on a farm – all with children between the ages of six and 12. They found that just 5% of Amish kids had been di…
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detained in connection with the attack, which has led the Swiss embassy to demand a thorough investigation. The Swiss embassy has asked for a thorough investigation. The victim, who is reported to be 39 years old, has been admitted to hospital in Gwalior. She is conscious and has spoken to the authorities. The tourists had been cycling from Orchha to Agra, a distance of about 155 miles, when they…
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had admitted to allowing more than 100 American citizens to hide $1.2bn from the Internal Revenue Service for almost 10 years. Wegelin, based in the small Swiss town of St Gallen, started in business 35 years before the US declaration of independence. It becomes the first foreign bank to plead guilty to tax evasion charges in the US. Other Swiss banks have in recent years moved to prevent US citi…
…re the law came in two years ago, we were told that a new clientele would start to come back to establishments,” he said. “But it’s not the case today because profits are down 10% to 30% depending on the type of business.” The latest opinion poll showed 52% of those questioned opposed the new initiative against 41% in favor and 7% undecided. …
Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne have been created a real “mighty mouse” with double the normal muscle strength while looking for ways to treat age-related diseases. According to some tests, the mouse has not only bigger muscles but, could run for twice as long on the treadmill. Swiss researchers created the “super strong marathon mice” by tweaki…
Greek journalist Costas Vaxevanis is due to go on trial in Athens for breach of privacy after publishing the names of 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts. French authorities gave the names to their Greek counterparts two years ago, but documents were never investigated. Costas Vaxevanis said that politicians should be prosecuted for keeping the names secret. But Greek officials have said there…
Serbian police has recovered a Cezanne painting stolen in a raid on a Swiss museum in 2008. Authorities have not named the painting, but local media has reported it is Boy in a Red Waistcoat, which was taken from Zurich’s Emil Georg Buehrle Collection, a private collection founded by a WWII arms dealer and entrepreneur. Serbian police said three people had been arrested in connection with t…
…ts near collapse during the financial crisis and a damaging U.S. investigation into its aiding wealthy Americans to dodge taxes. By 7:45 a.m. UBS shares were down 1.6% at 10.10 francs, outperforming a 2.6% slide on the European banking stocks index. UBS CEO Oswald Gruebel said he would not be resigning, and said calls for his resignation were “purely political” and that he was “not thinking about…
…ing the rest of the bank’s misbehavior. UBS said the fines – along with other payouts for mis-selling mortgage debts in the US – were likely to result in the bank recording a loss of 2 billion-2.5 billion Swiss francs in its financial accounts for the last three months of the year, although it still expects to make a profit for the year as a whole. UBS has agreed to pay $1.5 bil…
Bobbi Kristina Brown last night delivered a touching tribute to Whitney Houston at the Billboard Music Awards 2012. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, accepted the special Millennium Award on behalf of her late mother, after she was escorted onto the stage by her adopted brother Nick Gordon and received a quick kiss from him. Whitney Houston’s daughter had been reduced to tears while watching an emotional…
May 21 2012 | Posted in
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Kweku Adoboli, the rogue trader arrested in London for $2 bn UBS losses. London police have arrested a man in connection with allegations of unauthorized trading which has cost Swiss banking group UBS an estimated $2 billion. The 31 year-old man was detained in the early hours of Thursday and remains in London Police custody. UBS shares fell today 8% after it announced it was investi…
Swiss bank UBS lost 349 million Swiss francs ($356 million) by investing in Facebook shares, more than halving its profits. UBS’s second quarter profits were $425 million Swiss francs ($434 million), compared with 1bn francs a year earlier. Facebook was valued at $104 billion at its flotation in May, but the shares are now 39% below the initial sale price. As a result, UBS’s investmen…
Nestle, the world’s biggest food group, has reported rising sales but says it is having a “challenging year”. The Swiss company said its sales in the first three months of 2012 were 21.4 billion Swiss francs ($23.4 billion), up 5.6% from the same period last year. The group behind KitKat and Nespresso said that the trading environment had been subdued in many developed markets….
Apr 20 2012 | Posted in
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Joao Havelange, former FIFA president, was paid huge sums in bribes by collapsed marketing company ISL, court documents have revealed. Joao Havelange received at least 1.5 million Swiss francs and executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira at least 12.74 million SFr. The Swiss prosecutor’s report, published by FIFA, reveals the pair may have received up to 21.9 million SFr. They are the on…
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d limit is 100km/h (62 mph), Olivier Elsig said the bus collided with the right-hand side and then hit a concrete wall head-on. An investigation is under way. Swiss journalist Ruth Seeholzer said some 300 rescuers were working at the scene of the crash. She said that the two-lane tunnel was not busy with traffic when the accident happened and driving conditions were normal. Belgian Foreign Ministe…
UBS rogue trader arrested in London for $2 bn losses. Kweku Adoboli is the suspected rogue trader who was arrested in London at early hours today on suspicion of losing $2 billion of UBS, the major investment Swiss bank group. Ghanaian Kweku Adoboli, 31, was detained on suspicion of committing fraud while working at Swiss bank UBS, after police raided his home at 3.30am. After the raid UBS shar…
…ncourage technical advances in aviation, ran from 1913 to 1931, with a gap during World War I. George Hedley Stainforth went on to break the world record for flying upside-down – for 12 minutes. 3. John Paul Stapp In 1954, US Air Force medical researcher John Paul Stapp earned the title “the Fastest Man Alive” when he rode a rocket-powered sled to a then-world record land speed o…
strangest thing I have ever experienced as a professional diver.” The soot also proved cause for concern for Peter Lindberg’s colleague on the Ocean X explorer team, Stefan Hogeborn. “During my 20-year diving career, including 6,000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don’t burn,” Stefan Hogeborn said in the release. “I can’t explain what we saw, and I went down the…
Belgium is holding a day of national mourning by coming to a standstill for a minute’s silence at 11:00 a.m. and with flags being flown at half mast to remember the 28 victims of the Switzerland coach crash. After the minute’s silence, church bells rang out. Two planes carrying the bodies of those killed have landed at Melsbroek military airport in Belgium. The C130 planes left Switze…
Mar 16 2012 | Posted in
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ate, broken into small pieces 450 ml (¾pt) double cream 4 tbsp apricot jam Icing sugar, for dusting Christmas chocolate log METHOD Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6. Lightly grease and line a 33 cm x 23 cm (13in x 9in) Swiss roll tin. Whisk the eggs and sugar in a large bowl until the mixture is pale, light and frothy. Sift in the flour and cocoa powder and carefully cut and fold together…
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…le of the consequences of his disastrous miscalculations.” Kweku Adoboli will face a second count of fraud in addition to two charges of false accounting over three years at UBS Kweku Adoboli, 31, will face a second count of fraud in addition to two charges of false accounting over three years at UBS. Magistrates remanded Kweku Adoboli in custody until October 20 at the first of two commit…
…e said. “As a result, Adoboli, a relatively junior trader, was allowed to take vast and risky market positions, and UBS failed to manage the risks around that properly.” Kweku Adoboli, the 32-year-old Ghana-born son of a diplomat, joined UBS in 2003, becoming a trader in 2006. He worked in UBS’s global synthetic equities division (GSE), buying and selling exchange traded funds (E…
…ernment troops might also have used chemical weapons, but said further investigation was needed. She gave no details of when or where sarin may have been used. Her commission was established in August 2011 to examine alleged violations of human rights in the Syrian conflict since March 2011 and is due to issue its latest report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in June. A separate United Na…
