2008 Stories, most recent news story added Wed Dec 9, 2:27 am ET
WASHINGTON -- Oh, the poor Swiss! Usually they're in deep water -- though many of them live upward of 10,000 feet in the air -- because they won't reveal some poor Kuwaiti's or Saudi's wealth stashed away in a Swiss bank account. Other times, they're the object of jealousy for their prosperity and their self-righteous, Calvinist ways.
LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, MA and BASEL, SWITZERLAND--(Marketwire - December 9, 2009) - Antisoma plc ( LSE : ASM ; USOTC: ATSMY) announces that Novartis, its partner for ASA404, will feature ASA404 in today's Oncology pipeline update for investors. A webcast will be available via the Novartis website at www.novartis.com The update covers recent progress on the ASA404 lung ...
Taylor Phinney is getting some last-minute help in the quest to keep his specialty event on the Olympic cycling program. Hard copies of an online petition with 4,408 signatures were sent to the International Olympic Committee on Monday, just two days before the group's executive board is to convene in Switzerland for a meeting.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The World Meteorological Organization says this decade is the warmest on record, surpassing the period spanning the 1990s.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Elimination of endurance events in track cycling and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis are up for consideration this week by the International Olympic Committee.At a two-day meeting that starts Wednesday, the IOC executive boa...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Elimination of maligned endurance events in track cycling and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis are up for consideration this week by the International Olympic Committee.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Olympic Committee is considering the elimination of endurance events in track cycling and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis for the 2012 London Games.
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STUTTGART, GERMANY – December 8, 2009: The Maybach automobile brand is accelerating its commitment to contemporary art. The focus is to work with internationally renowned artists like David LaChapelle and major institutions within the art community, like the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.
CHAM, Switzerland, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- RapidShare, a distributor of digital information to companies and individual clients, today announced its Americas Reseller Program for authorized distributors of RapidShare premium accounts in the United States, Canada and South America. Without a required minimum annual revenue commitment, online businesses can quickly benefit from the rapidly ...
Doha - The verbal war over Switzerland's ban on building new minarets on mosques escalated Tuesday during a talk show when an Islamic academic condemned a key backer of the Swiss referendum as the new Hitler of Europe. The director of the Institute ...
Published: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 12:42 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 12:42 p.m. LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Elimination of endurance events in track cycling and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis are up for consideration this week by the International Olympic Committee.
LAKE PLACID - The prospect of this village hosting a Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2016 received a high-profile boost last month when village Mayor Craig Randall and Lake Placid/Essex County Visitors Bureau President and CEO James McKenna traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- If it did nothing else (and it may end up getting knocked down in a European Court of Human Rights), Switzerland’s vote to ban the building of minarets drew attention to Europe’s identity crisis.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND--(Marketwire - December 8, 2009) - The ordinary Annual General Meeting of Barry Callebaut AG, the world's leading manufacturer of cocoa and chocolate products, was held on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, in Zurich under the chairmanship of Andreas Jacobs, Chairman of the Board. All motions proposed by the Board were adopted. 1,096 shareholders attended the meeting, representing 3 ...
The Swiss voted to ban minarets that no one intends to build in order to defend themselves against an Islam that has never existed in Switzerland.
