With its August music festival, Jean Nouvel-designed concert hall, restaurants and museums, Sarah Sands finds the Swiss lakeside city has culture down to a fine art... more
Zurich Financial Services is selling part of its UK operations to Swiss Re as it seeks to unlock capital and boost its position in its key markets... more
The chances of England hosting the 2018 World Cup have improved significantly after the Russian Prime Minister confirmed he would not be travelling to tomorrow’s vote in Zurich... more
Zurich Financial Services’ nine-month profit misses expectations with a 13% fall after the Swiss insurer suffers a writedown in its Russian car cover unit... more
The circumstances surrounding the partial release of Kafka papers from their Zurich bank vault resembles an exceptionally complicated Victorian novel... more
Clocks which used to display the time around the world at the Londion Stock Exchange are keeping time at City brasserie 1 Lombard Street until they are auctioned off... more
As you know, from Alan Cutkelvin Rees, I accompanied Raymond Cutkelvin, who was suffering severely from the advanced stages of cancer of the pancreas, to the Dignitas flat, in Zurich, in February 2007, where he had a doctor-assisted suicide... more
Marks & Spencer’s recent better-than-expected sales figures must have left Sir Stuart Rose hoping he had tamed investors’ anger in time for July’s AGM... ... more
The troubleshooter brought in by the Government to run Northern Rock cost the taxpayer £173,000 in expenses last year as she travelled between her home in Switzerland and the UK... more
Banking: Julius Baer, the Swiss bank whose chief executive committed suicide in December, saw its share price crash after it reported tumbling profits... more
Zurich Financial, the world's fifth-largest insurer, saw operating profits fall 15% to $4.2bn in the first nine months, amid a double hit by hurricanes and the financial markets slump... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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