Recto-verso of the Stern murder: when a man kills a woman…
GenevaLunch News The jurors in the trial of Cécile Brossard for the murder of Edouard Stern have done us all a favour: they have underlined the importance of taking charge of our own emotional lives by...
View ArticleValais woman arrested in Geneva for false gang-rape accusations
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 25-year-old Valais woman has been taken to prison, accused of defamation against six people, after telling police in March 2009 that she had been...
View ArticleSecond A/H1N1 death in Switzerland
GenevaLunch News Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s second death from A/H1N1 flu has taken place just a week after the first, but doctors point out that the patient, a woman over 50 with...
View ArticleAustralia gets first female prime minister
GenevaLunch News Julia Gillard is the new prime minister of Australia, after Kevin Rudd stepped down in a last-minute shuffle of the Labor Party, ending Rudd’s two-and-a-half years at the helm. She is...
View ArticleWoman hit by train in Prangins in serious condition
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police were contacted by people at the old Prangins train station who observed a woman who appeared troubled, hanging around the station at 12:40 Wednesdday 15...
View ArticleStrauss-Kahn freed without bail, case not dismissed
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A turnaround hailed in media in the US and France as “dramatic” has seen former IMF head Dominique Levi-Strauss freed from house arrest on his own recognizance,...
View ArticleSwiss Post names woman, ex-IBM and BT, as new CEO
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss Post is about to become one of the few major Swiss companies able to boast of a woman heading its business, after naming Susanne Ruoff, 53, its new chief...
View ArticleSwiss hostage in Yemen shown in video, uncertainty over validity
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A Swiss woman kidnapped in Yemen in March appears in a video that has been published on the Internet, but according to Swiss public broadcasting RTS it is not yet...
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