Brilliantly qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Championship, Switzerland faces the United States on Thursday evening (7:20 p.m.) in Helsinki. Favorite, Patrick Fischer’s troupe must invoke the spirit of Copenhagen. Here is the national team arriving where everyone expected to find them before the tournament even started. But here is also the national team … Read more
Inflation began to slow in April in the United States, with gasoline prices falling after surging in March due to the war in Ukraine, but remains very high, affecting the popularity of Joe Biden. In April, inflation stood at 8.3% over one year, against 8.5% in March, according to the consumer price index (CPI) published … Read more
Colombia’s biggest drug trafficker, ‘Otoniel’, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn to international cocaine trafficking charges pending after his extradition to the United States. He faces life in prison. Dairo Antonio Usuga David, alias Otoniel, 50, was notably charged with directing a criminal enterprise between June 2003 and October 2021 and with … Read more
Australian airline Qantas announced on Monday that it will launch the world’s first non-stop commercial flights linking Sydney with London and New York by the end of 2025. It will order 12 Airbus A350-1000s to operate Project Sunrise flights to cities such as London and New York from Sydney by the end of 2025, Qantas … Read more
The Bernese Jura Hospital will no longer test asymptomatic people. The institution announced in a press release on Friday that “following the good evolution of the epidemiological situation in Switzerland”, asymptomatic people will no longer be screened from Monday. Thus, Covid certificates will no longer be issued within the institution. On the other hand, screening … Read more
“The conclusions are good”, rejoices the municipal councilor and director of social action and security of the City of Biel Beat Feurer. The Department of Social Affairs had its new organization assessed by an external audit firm and presented its findings on Friday. The KPMG group’s analysis is positive. The Department even obtains a better … Read more
Rafael Nadal, who is aiming for a 4th title at the Indian Wells Masters 1000, pleaded for “tougher sanctions” against players who have bloodshed, like Alexander Zverev in Acapulco. ‘I am in a difficult position. I’m torn, because I have a good relationship with +Sasha+, he’s someone I appreciate. But he knows he was wrong … Read more
They chose Neuchâtel to learn French and develop projects around diversity, equality and integration. Fifteen young Americans from high school in Lexington, a town near Boston, are on exchange from February 16 to 26 in the canton. They are welcomed into the families of 8 high school students from Lycée Jean-Piaget and 7 from Lycée … Read more
It’s simple groom as butler of one of the most prestigious establishments in New York, the destiny of Oscar Tschirky has everything of the American dream. This Loclois, who left to settle in the United States with his parents in 1883, is at the heart of the new temporary exhibition of the Underground Mills of … Read more
Bastien Bron could win the prize for the best music video in Switzerland next spring. The Neuchâtelois was selected with four other directors on Saturday evening for the Solothurn Days. Associated with Laetitia Gauchat, Bastien Bron directed the clip for the title Driver by Saint-Gallen singer Joya Marleen. The winner of the “Best Swiss Video … Read more