The US expressed disappointment at Switzerland’s refusal to extradite Roman Polanski and vowed to pursue the three decade hunt for the director.
Roman Polanski has been able to step beyond the confines of his garden for the first time in 10 months after authorities decided not to extradite him.
An experimental solar-powered aircraft landed in Switzerland on Thursday at 7.01am GMT, after completing a historic flight lasting 26 hours.
Chile kept their place at the top of Group H with a bitterly fought 1-0 win over a stubborn 10-man Switzerland on Monday.
When Marcel Bielsa took charge of Chile his first game in charge was a friendly against Switzerland and now they will meet again at the World Cup.
Director Roman Polanski broke his silence on Sunday over the bid to extradite him to face child sex charges in the United States.
Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher near Geneva on Tuesday started colliding particles at record energy levels.
There’s still a long road to travel before SA’s first ‘green’ car gets out of the starting blocks.
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/ 22 February 2010
Libyan police surrounded the Swiss embassy in Tripoli on Monday after issuing a deadline for Switzerland to hand over two nationals.
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/ 29 January 2010
Glenn Stevens, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, is an accidental hero of the global financial crisis.
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/ 27 January 2010
Bankers and political leaders took their battle over post-crisis regulation to the World Economic Forum, which started in Davos on Wednesday.
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/ 22 December 2009
In a case that has polarised public passions, director Roman Polanski did not win his freedom on Monday for a 32-year-old sex offence.
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/ 1 December 2009
Swiss authorities will not release Roman Polanski into house arrest at his luxury Alpine chalet before Friday, the government said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 November 2009
The ”Big Bang” experiment at Cern scored a world record on Monday by accelerating beams to the highest energy ever achieved in a particle collider.
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/ 30 November 2009
Switzerland confronted an international backlash on Monday over a shock vote to ban new minarets.
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/ 28 November 2009
Security experts on Saturday started preparing Roman Polanski’s Alpine chalet for the movie director’s house arrest.
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/ 26 November 2009
Roman Polanski awaited release from a Swiss prison on Thursday after a court granted him a ,5-million dollar bail.
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/ 20 November 2009
The world’s biggest atom-smasher is set to restart this weekend, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Friday.
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/ 16 November 2009
Debutants Switzerland were crowned Under-17 World Cup champions on Sunday when they defeated hosts and defending champions Nigeria 1-0 in Abuja.
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/ 23 October 2009
The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, the Swiss Justice Ministry said on Friday.
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/ 21 October 2009
Film director Roman Polanski may decide to face justice in the US to avoid lengthy extradition procedures, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday.
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/ 21 October 2009
A Swiss court rejected on Tuesday a bid by film director Roman Polanski for release on bail as the risk was too high he would flee.
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/ 12 October 2009
A US professor who showed how users could successfully manage common property became the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics on Monday.
Swiss authorities denied a request to release film director Roman Polanski on bail after he was arrested in September, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Roman Polanski will find out this week whether he will be granted an unlikely release from prison pending his possible extradition to the US.
Roman Polanski’s arrest on a 32-year-old charge of having sex with a minor has outraged the French government and film community, reports Jon Henley.
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/ 29 September 2009
Lawyers for director Roman Polanski lodged an appeal with a Swiss court on Tuesday against his arrest on a United States extradition warrant.
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/ 29 September 2009
Roman Polanski is in ”good spirits” despite his arrest on a decades-old warrant relating to the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977, his agent said.
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/ 28 September 2009
Director Roman Polanski, arrested in Zurich over a US charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will fight extradition, his lawyer said.
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/ 27 September 2009
Director Roman Polanski was arrested in Zurich on a 1978 United States arrest warrant for sex with a 13-year-old on Saturday night.
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/ 22 September 2009
For the next four weeks, the fear that any bank anywhere, no matter how big, could be at risk would stalk the markets.
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/ 3 September 2009
Novartis reported on Thursday progress in clinical trials on a vaccine for swine flu saying one dose had led to immunisation in 80% of subjects.