Zurich

The Freitag Bros. Cult Bags Get First Retrospective at Design Museum Zurich (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Freitag Brothers, Switzerland, Freitag Brothers Messenger Bags, Zurich, Museum of Design Zurich, Freitag Brothers Exhibition, Freitag Brothers Design, Video, Arts News

The story of the iconic Freitag bag made of used truck tarpaulin began in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1993, when the two brothers and keen cyclists Daniel and Markus Freitag were looking for a practical and waterproof messenger bag.

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Damaged Cezanne Painting Can Be Restored

AP | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Damage, Art Heist, E.G. Buehrle, The Boy in the Red Vest, Video, Lukas Gloor, Serbia, Masterpiece, Zurich, Painting, Paul Cezanne, Arts News

GENEVA — A Swiss art expert says a $110 million painting by Paul Cezanne damaged following a robbery four years ago can be restored. The direct...

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Report: Swiss Woman Starved Doing 'Sunlight' Fast

AP | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Sunlight Fast, Switzerland, Swiss Woman Starves Sunlight Fast, Swiss Woman Sunlight Fast, Tages Anzeiger, Zurich, Aargua, World News

GENEVA -- Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports that a woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or...

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Budget Travel Tips For The World's Most Expensive City

Gadling | Dave Seminara | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Zurich, Switzerland Travel, Budget Travel, International Destinations, Europe Travel, Travel News

On my second day in Zurich, named the world's most expensive city by The Economist, I found myself sitting at an outdoor table, high above the city, s...

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Painting Believed To Be A Stolen Cezanne Found

AP | DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: E. G. Buhrle Collection, Video, Cezanne, Crime, Boy in the Red Vest, Serbia, Art Theft, Museum Raid, Robbery, Zurich, Paul Cezanne, Painting, Arts News

BELGRADE, Serbia — Police from Serbia and Switzerland have recovered a Paul Cezanne masterpiece that was stolen from a Swiss museum in 2008 and ...

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10 Things To Do In Zurich On A Backpacker's Budget

Off Track Planet | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Swiss, Travel Tips, Travel, Europe Backpacking, Switzerland, Zurich, Budget Travel, Budget, Travel News

Famous for its super secret Swiss banks and having the world's best quality of life, Zurich's beautiful nature, polished culture and utopian transportation comes with a huge price tag. Don't skip off to somewhere cheaper just yet.

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Real Consequences of Income Inequality

Frank A. Weil | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Income Disparity, Zurich, Crime, Pickpockets, Crime News

A little encounter opened my complacent and privileged mind to a not so brave new world out there that we have to deal with and try to correct.

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Storybook Ending For Troubled Ass: A Blind Donkey's Holiday Tale

Worldcrunch | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Animal Rights, Zurich, World News

A blind donkey named Noldi is the September 2012 "pin-up" on the new calendar just issued by Gut Aiderbichl, an Austrian animal sanctuary. It is the s...

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C.G. Jung and His Jewish Colleague, James Kirsch: An Extraordinary Exchange

Thomas Singer, M.D. | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Palestine, Letters, Nazis, Judaism, Books, Dream Interpretation, Zurich, James Kirsch, Psychoanalysis, C.G.Jung, Books News

This book takes one on that journey in a most spirited and intelligent exchange between two fierce souls who dedicated their lives to exploring the innermost secrets of the interplay between the human, the divine, and the demonic.

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WATCH: Big Hands Emerge From European Streets

Posted 11.19.2011

Visitors to a handful of major European cities have been left scratching their heads over the sight a 20-foot tall white hands. Are they part of a mas...

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Swiss Bank Chair Regrets Taking On U.S. Clients After Tax Spat

AP | By FRANK JORDANS | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Bank Regulation, Video, Swiss Bank, Credit Suisse Group, Basler Zeitung, Asset Manager, Zurich, Tax Evasion, Basler Kantonalbank, UBS AG, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

GENEVA -- The chairman of a Swiss regional bank caught up in a fresh tax evasion spat between the United States and Switzerland says he regrets taking...

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Speech by Bob Geldof Inspires Instant Activism at One Young World

Kathleen Hale | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Ajarat Bada, South Africa, Demonstrations, One Young Newsroom, Wake Up Call, One Young World, Michael Teoh, Activism, Parker Liautaud, Protest, Zurich, Erin Schrode, Bob Geldof, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Video, Impact News

According to Bob Gedolf, as one grows closer to one's own end, one also grows more impatient for younger generations to take a stand.

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UBS To Cut 3,500 Jobs

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Video, Job Cuts, Wealth Management, Swiss Banks, Jobs, Jobless, Zurich, Zuercher Kantonalbank, Asset Management, UBS AG, Business News

GENEVA -- Swiss bank UBS AG said Tuesday it is cutting 3,500 jobs worldwide as part of an effort to save 2 billion Swiss francs ($2.5 billion) annuall...

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WATCH: Surreal Sculpture On A Farm

VernissageTV | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Pablo Bronstein, Public Space, Public Art, Switzerland, Museums, Farm, Sculpture, Monument, Contemporary Art, Psychedelic, Drugs, Performance Art, Zurich, Countryside, UK Arts, Video, Arts News

The Garden of Forking Paths is the title of an outdoor sculpture project, which the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst is staging on the Blum family e...

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Swiss Women's Party Starts Topless Campaign

TAGES ANZEIGER/Worldcrunch | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Switzerland, Fdp-Frauen, Zurich, Claudine Esseiva, Swiss Politics, World News

is a new website that delivers English editions of the best foreign-language news and journalism. A new trend has the nation's legislators baring ...

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The Magic of Mentorship

Ryan Leslie | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Harvard, Kanye, Warner Bros, Music, William Morris Agency, Youtube, Zurich, Ryan Leslie Music, Ryan Leslie Mentor Program, Openair, Ryan Leslie Mentor, Impact News

Mother Teresa once said "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." Mentorship, for me, is the embodiment of that charge.

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UBS Names Next Chairman

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Swiss Bank UBS, Deutsche Bank, Kaspar Villiger, Europe Banks, Axel Weber, Zurich, Bundesbank, Nicolas Sarkozy, Philipp Hildebrand, Business News

ZURICH (Martin de Sa'Pinto and Caroline Copley) - Swiss bank UBS (UBSN.VX) on Friday named former Bundesbank president Axel Weber as its next chai...

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"Bezaubern" Zurich on a Short Business Trip

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Rosti, Espresso, Lake Zurich, Switzerland, Newsrooms, Champagne, Bellerive Museum, Zurich, Veal, Swiss Franc, Truffles, Tram, Swiss, English, Cognac, Chocolate, Raclette, Liza Minelli, Cabaret, Swiss Army Knife, Cappucciono, Laderach, Bahnhofstrasse, Travel News

Feasting my eyes on hand-made Swiss chocolate while on a business trip to Zurich was sheer nirvana. We're talking serious chocolate, the kind made fresh daily by hand in front of admiring aficionados.

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A Nonsense Holiday: Today Begins International Dadaism Month

Posted 05.25.2011

Today marks the beginning of one of the weirdest holidays you'll ever hear of: International Dadaism Month. The declaration was made on December 27,...

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"Is This Really Happening?"

Jimmy Demers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gorbachev, Zurich, Raisa, Healthy Living News

I live in a city where much emphasis is placed on where you are and how you got there. We too often forget that most of us got wherever we are in life because of someone we knew who kindly took us along.

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Eating Blind

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blinde Kuh, Zurich, Travel, Eating in Darkness, Blindness, Restaurants, Eating Out, Food News

A couple of years ago I was in Zurich and heard about a restaurant called Blinde Kuh (Blind Cow). Our waitress led us through heavy drapes to another doorway and into a room of total, pitch-black darkness.

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Sleeping in Airports: Top Hotels and Tips for Terminal Stays

Sue Frause | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flight Delays, Montreal, Airports, Hotels, Zurich, Vancouver, Travel News

I love nice airport hotels. I mean the hotels where you arrive after a very long flight, and instead of making the long drive home, extend your trip for a night.

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Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka

Rodger Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Max Brod, Franz Kafka, Books, Kafka, Manuscripts, Zurich, Eve Hoffe, German Literature Archive, Authors, The Trial, Reiner Stach, The Penal Colony, Kafka Manuscripts, Lost Manuscripts, Books News

Who does Kafka belong to? The court case in Israel over the past two years will eventually decide the proper ownership of certain manuscripts of Kafka's.

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Volcano Ash Closes Airports In Spain, Portugal, Italy

AP | FRANK JORDANS and SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Austria, Aer Lingus, Ash Cloud, Germany, Eyjafjallajokul Volcano, Airports, Ireland, Italy, Travel, Spain, Zurich, Europe, Portugal, Volcano, Volcano Ash Cloud, World News

GENEVA — Airlines canceled hundreds of flights across Europe and added hours to trans-Atlantic journeys Sunday as planes were diverted around a ...

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World's Most Liveable Cities: Monocle Magazine 'Quality of Life' Survey (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World's Best Cities, Most Liveable Cities, Public Health, Zurich, Helsinki, Stockholm, Melbourne, Paris, Tokyo, Madrid, Sydney, Munich, Socio-Economics, Monocle Magazine, Copenhagen, Slidepollajax, Vienna, Quality of Life, Berlin, World News

Munich residents have a reason to toast themselves months before Oktoberfest this year, as the Bavarian city tops the list of Monocle Magazine's Quali...

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