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Swiss salaries: Bankers no longer biggest earners

The pharmaceutical industry has leapfrogged the banking sector to take top place in the Swiss earnings table, newly published data on executive salaries reveals.

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Swiss banks and Fifa figures tied to offshore activity

Swiss bank UBS, banned Uefa boss Michel Platini and the former secretary general of Fifa are among those named in leaked documents as being connected to secret offshore companies.

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Syngenta rejects claims of pesticide bee deaths

Basel-based agrichemical giant Syngenta on Friday urged Brussels to withdraw plans to slap a two-year ban on so-called neonicotinoid pesticides, saying blaming them for bee deaths was wrongheaded.

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Liechtenstein voters elect new government

A loosely knit group of independent candidates, including a cross-dressing mechanic, surged Sunday to become Liechtenstein's third-largest party in general elections that dealt a heavy loss to the prime minister's party.

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New bid made to expand shopping hours

A battle is heating up again over attempts by politicians to pry open Switzerland’s restrictive shopping laws.

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Geneva pastry chefs break Guinness record

A legion of Swiss pastry chefs baked their way into the Guinness Book of World Records on Sunday with a chocolate Napoleon more than 1.2 kilometres long, the ATS news agency reported.

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Court blows off prisoner’s erection beef

A regional prison inmate in Bern suffering from priapism has failed in a legal bid to win damages for the alleged failure of prison staff to deal with his medical condition in a timely manner.