Violence erupted in the Swiss city of Geneva Saturday as a scheduled peaceful protest of a World Trade Organization conference turned violent and police had to use tear gas and rubber bullets.
Correspondent give a global perspective on concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
U.S. President Barack Obama called on Iran to provide the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency with "unfettered" access to the newly disclosed Qom uranium enrichment site, and Tehran's nuclear negotiator said the country would cooperate with inspectors.
At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a shooting spree that spanned two small southern Alabama towns, state officials confirmed. The gunman, who turned the gun on himself, and the wife and child of a sheriff's deputy were among those killed.
The world's poorest people will be hungrier, sicker and have fewer jobs as a result of the global financial crisis
CNN's Becky Anderson speaks with Tim Irwin of the UNHCR about reports that smugglers forced refugees overboard.
Nine days after the successful test run of the world's largest particle accelerator in Geneva, the machine has been shut down for repairs
The unique qualities of the world's largest particle collider mean that the meltdown of a small electrical connection could delay its groundbreaking research until next year
The world's biggest accelerator fires up (Earth is safe so far) in an effort to unlock some of nature's most enduring mysteries
The world's biggest physics experiment has succeeded in its first major test as a beam of protons was successfully fired all the way around a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.
Drinks with the actor cost $1,000; dinner runs $10,000
Trade talks fail
updated: Wed Jul 30 2008 12:25:00
Tension-filled World Trade Organization summit in Geneva ends in disagreement. ITN's Jonathan Rugman reports.
Gaddafi shuts off the oil after his son and daughter-in-law are questioned for beating servants
Oil prices fell Friday, marking a more than $16-a-barrel four-day drop, as the market focused on a possible thawing between U.S. and Iranian tensions.
Germany, Holland and Spain set the pace in Europe's classic football championship
A referendum proposes making citizenship a decision for local voters in Switzerland
The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle" says he's almost sure it will be confirmed in the next year in a race between powerful research equipment in the United States and Europe
Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new feature Tuesday for its popular mapping programs that shines a spotlight on the movement of refugees around the world
You needed to have a strong stomach to fly into Geneva this week, and I didn't.
Charles Kimando, a doctor in Kenya, has long been frustrated with his limited arsenal of drugs to treat malaria. The parasitic disease makes its appearance after heavy rains in Embu, the central Kenyan town where he is based. Kimando has access to a drug called Arsucam, but it treats malaria with two different pills, one of which tastes terrible and sometimes has side effects. "It can be hard to get people to take the available drugs," he says.
Founded in 1805 in Geneva, Pictet & Cie is today one of Switzerland's largest private banks, and one of the premier independent asset management specialists in Europe.
The stunning sale of a tiny antiquity has increased interest in the market for ancient coins, sculpture and pottery
The largest cut and polished diamond goes on auction in Switzerland along with other historic jewelry.
A video promoting emergency service numbers in Switzerland has featured male and female firefighters rapping and dancing in uniforms and hot pants.
Swiss firefighters come up with a novel way to spread the word about their emergency telephone number '118'.
CNN's Richard Quest reports on the city of Geneva, and what it has to offer
This month CNN Business Traveller will uncover the gems of Geneva, Switzerland, from the heady heights of Mount Saleve to sampling chocolates and finishing the day on the shores of Lake Geneva.
The Turks and Caicos were romantic, but new bride Eva Longoria says, "I wanted a longer honeymoon."
With an estimated 2.1 billion airline passengers roaming the planet last year alone, infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.
World Water Week is upon us, an annual fete of all things H2O. The event, held in Stockholm, is the leading global meeting place for experts from businesses, governments, science, NGOs, academe and United Nations agencies. This year's event features the launch on Tuesday of a remarkable Global Water Tool, a free online resource to help companies calculate water consumption and efficiency across a portfolio of facilities around the world.
The war of the cute city cars has heated up with the release of the first official pictures of the new Mini Clubman. The estate version of the iconic supermini will be available throughout Europe from November. The announcement comes a month after Fiat released details of its Mini competitor, the cute 500.
Tickets for the 2008 European Championship finals were 30 times oversubscribed after seats went on sale in the first round of applications, European soccer's governing body UEFA said on Monday.
Concept cars are an integral part of any auto show, and Geneva is no exception.
After a sale was postponed to answer questions about the car's racing history, an ultra-rare 1939 German racing car expected to fetch the highest price on record for any automobile did not find a buyer at an auction.
There was a distinctly green theme at this year's Geneva motor show, as manufacturers battled to prove their environmental credentials in a world that is increasingly concerned with the environment and man's effect on it.
Here are some of the companies whose shares were active in Wednesday trading:
A Russian plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Prague Thursday after an apparently intoxicated passenger threatened to detonate a bomb, officials said.
Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to resume peace talks with Sri Lankan government representatives in Geneva on October 28 and 29.
When it comes to getting your branding right in the luxury watch market, nothing is left to chance.
Swiss intelligence services foiled a terrorist plot to shoot down an Israeli plane over Geneva, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.
In 2005, 30 million bags were either temporarily or permanently misplaced in transit.
If you take a look at the car's being unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, which opens to the public Thursday, you'll see some vehicles that look strangely familiar. But then, somehow, not quite.
The world's poorest countries have been given an extension until 2013 to follow rules covering protection of trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property.
Argentina rebounded from their weekend defeat to arch-rivals England with a comfortable 3-0 win over Qatar in a friendly in Doha on Wednesday.
GENEVA -(Dow Jones)- Talks among trade ministers from the world's biggest commercial powers to open global markets ended in acrimony Tuesday night.
Many rich countries have failed to give enough to the U.N. appeal to help the victims of the earthquake which devastated Pakistan earlier this month, according to Oxfam.
When it comes to the world's best cities, Geneva and Zurich come up trumps.
England's friendly international against Argentina can now go ahead next month after Sven-Goran Eriksson's side secured a berth in the World Cup finals.
Forget the thousands of polls that turn out the obvious information on destinations, airlines and lounges. This month's CNN Business Traveller finds the top surveys that reveal the not so obvious.
As European Union officials consider imposing a tax on airline fuel, carriers are looking to take the lead and reduce their impact on the environment.
Time-poor corporate fliers fed up with the hassle of long lines at check-in desks and sluggish security checks are finding alternatives.
New standards for auto door latches could do more than save lives by keeping vehicle occupants inside during an accident -- they could signal a new global approach to improving safety, according to a published report.
A deal to rescue world trade talks has received a cautious welcome from major trading nations.
The World Trade Organization has agreed to start talks with Libya on its possible entry into the 147-nation body, according to reports.
London, Geneva, Paris -- owner of the world famous Harrods department store, Mohamed al-Fayed is an extraordinary business traveler.
In late June, a Swiss appeals court decided that a group of five Gypsies could sue IBM in Switzerland. Previously, a lower court had dismissed the case on the ground that it lacked jurisdiction -- deeming IBM's Geneva office only an "antenna," and not its European headquarters. But the appeals court held that jurisdiction was proper.
It was behind the walls of Abu Ghraib where U.S. soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners and it was behind these same walls where U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has now paid a surprise visit.
Hard-up Servette's match against St Gallen will go ahead when the Swiss League restarts on Sunday thanks to a cash donation from the Geneva cantonal government.
The two big watch shows, held in Switzerland (Basel and Geneva) in April, are something else. For the Basel exhibition, the makers construct elaborate, multistory pavilions with cafes inside. Rolex...
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Fortune: Buy A Little Timeupdated: Mon Mar 04 2002 00:01:00
Bell & Ross, a French company started in 1995, may not have the historical provenance of other watchmakers, but when it makes a watch this foxy, who cares? Called the Geneva, it costs $1,800 with a...
Why spend a fortune on a mechanical Swiss watch that's less accurate than a $5 electronic gadget from Hong Kong, and so delicate that you can't wear it near a computer? For one thing, a timepiece c...
Congratulations, college grads! Now begins your so-called real life. But here's a bummer: If you took your parents' well-meaning advice and majored in a seemingly useful discipline like accounting ...
Let's say you're not a Nazi, or even a professional Nazi hunter. There's still a certain fascination with Swiss bank accounts. Would it be impolitic to ask whether maybe a lowly, workaday business ...
On the counter in front of me is the most preposterous document I've ever been asked to sign. It's a registration for the very ordinary Geneva Movenpick Hotel, and it says 480 francs par jour. At t...
To a casual observer, Geneva Finn, 15, who appears in the center of the photo at right, looks like any number of young women her age. But for two years, this Minneapolis teen has been afflicted by ...
Stock investors' best offense next year starts with a good defense. That's why our five picks for 1994 are all strong businesses that have temporarily fallen out of investors' good graces. Such sto...
Believe it or not, some great jobs are going begging. The catch: They're overseas, often remote, and usually require foreign experience and a second language. (See right for examples of what variou...
Hamburgers may be in the smokestack sector of the food business these days, but in Switzerland they are starting to roll -- on the railroad, that is. Two specially commissioned McDonald's dining ca...
The hits just keep on coming. By which we mean: with the travel biz still reeling from this year's extremely tough sell, packages and promotions from airlines, hotels and resorts just get bigger an...
Fortune: AT BAT FOR GATT updated: Mon Jul 15 1991 00:01:00
The five-year-old drive to extend global trading rules to new areas, such as services and agriculture, is in trouble. Seeking arresting arguments, GATT Director General Arthur Dunkel in May hired C...
Kevin and Deborah Winne are giving their children -- Sara, 12, Jaime, 10, and Kaitlyn, 2 -- the kind of idyllic upbringing that seems more characteristic of the Father Knows Best era than the Marri...
The American sugar beet (photo below) looks innocent enough. So do French butter, West German grain, and Japanese rice. They're not. Nor are the many other crops and dairy products that the U.S., t...
America's 83,000 public schools are spending more but educating our 40 million schoolchildren less. Last year, U.S. taxpayers paid about $4,500 per pupil, up an inflation-adjusted 28% just since 19...
During most of the 20th century, the backlog of experimental data yet to be understood was extremely large. We've caught up, you might say. That is not to say that we understand everything -- far f...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Oct 23 1989 00:01:00
WARREN BUFFETT, 59, billionaire investor and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, on why the company has borSrowed $400 million and put the cash into Treasuries: ''The best time to buy assets may be whe...
Fortune: RUSSIA'S ROLEX?updated: Mon May 22 1989 00:01:00
The new status symbol wrapping fashionable wrists this summer could be the Soviet military-style watch above. Already a hit in Italy, the somewhat clunky $100 timepiece comes complete with a red st...
AN AXIOM of the food service business holds that a chef can hide anything under a sauce. As any veteran flier knows, the chefs who devise those airline meals not only can -- but often do. Lurking b...
Fortune: The unique Japaneseupdated: Mon Nov 24 1986 00:01:00
One of the cleverest ways the Japanese have found to keep foreign manufacturers out of their domestic market is to plead ''uniqueness.'' Japanese skin is different, the government argues, so foreig...
American executives may be getting cynical, if not sarcastic, about MBAs, but Europe's new young managers are still true believers. As a result business schools are booming. The 280-student l'Insti...
Fortune: Upcoming; Signalsupdated: Mon May 12 1986 00:01:00
The Federal Reserve lowered the discount rate half a point to 6.5%, the lowest in eight years. Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. and Toledo Edison Corp. won approval for the largest utilities mer...
Fortune: Hard times in Riyadhupdated: Mon Apr 14 1986 00:01:00
Saudi Arabia has become a conspicuous victim of its own campaign to stabilize oil prices. The Saudis opened the oil spigot last December, hoping to impose discipline on OPEC (see Profile). But the ...
Fortune: Upcomingupdated: Mon Dec 23 1985 00:01:00
December 7: OPEC meets in Geneva and will once again try to firm up production quotas. December 12: Congress adjourns for Christmas. By then House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski hopes to ...
Fortune: Upcomingupdated: Mon Aug 05 1985 00:01:00
Under pressure from the U.S., Japan says it will announce new policies for opening up its markets to more foreign trade by the end of July. Japanese officials say restrictive regulatory barriers wi...
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