Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands secured back-to-back women’s wheelchair basketball titles, denying the United States on the final day of competition. China finished top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics since Athens in 2004. They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49...
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Real-Time Payments Reach Key Milestones in the US, Switzerland and Australia | PYMNTS.com
Download the World Map Real-Time Payments World Map Real-time payments continue their rapid global expansion, with banks and governments updating existing systems and introducing new ones for their citizens and customers. Australia is expanding its real-time payments landscape through a new cross-border payments collaboration between BNY and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). This collaboration allows...
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Companies roundup: Rolls-Royce & Watches of Switzerland
Rolls-Royce (RR.), Watches of Switzerland (WOSG) and Ashtead (AHT) Rolls-Royce (RR.) shares rebounded 5 per cent on Tuesday as investors bought the dip which followed an airline customer reporting an engine component failure. Cathay Pacific was forced to return a Zurich-bound flight to its Hong Kong base on Monday after reporting a failure on one of its...
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Monday’s hockey: Zadina off to Switzerland; Michigan Tech picks Works as captain
News staff and wire services Free agent forward Filip Zadina signed a two-year contract with Hockey Club Davos of the Swiss National League, the Switzerland team announced Monday. A first-round draft pick and sixth overall by the Detroit Red Wings in 2018, Zadina posted 41 goals and 50 assists for 91 points in 262 career...
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Servette FC vs. Chelsea, UEFA Conference League: Preview, team news, how to watch
It may be just UEFA’s third rate competition, and Chelsea may be quite far removed from our relatively recent successes, but this is being billed as an historic occasion for Servette, one “that the youngest will tell their grandchildren about”, as per their official website, which also urges that they must believe in the impossible...
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Inside the bizarre world of arrested ‘Russian Elon Musk’: How fitness fanatic Telegram billionaire Pavel Durov fled homeland after ‘falling out with Putin’ and then ‘fathered 100 children’ while donating sperm to spread ‘high quality’ genetic material
Pavel Durov is a billionaire tech boss with a difference – the Telegram CEO rejects the usual trappings of wealth, such as yachts and luxury property, saying he prioritises his ‘freedom’ above all else. Durov’s Instagram is full of pictures flaunting his physique and jetset lifestyle, and he has proudly stated that he is a vegetarian who...
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Students who delivered antinuclear message to UN back from Switzerland | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
A group of Japanese senior high school students has returned to Japan from Switzerland after submitting about 96,000 signatures on an antinuclear petition to the UN Office at Geneva. The 22 members of the team from the Youth Communicator for a World without Nuclear Weapons held a briefing in the city of Nagasaki on Saturday,...
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Switzerland Pioneers Open Source Software and Digital Sovereignty Initiatives
Iris Coleman Aug 23, 2024 14:32 Switzerland mandates government-developed software to be open source, joining Germany and France in enhancing digital sovereignty and security. European nations like Switzerland, Germany, and France are increasingly adopting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to enhance digital sovereignty, security, and innovation....
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Style Edit: La Prairie’s revolutionary Life Matrix Haute Rejuvenation Cream
It’s really a shift from the more traditional way of doing anti-ageing to something that is more future-oriented. Every client has a different lifestyle, skin conditions, genetic predispositions. I don’t want this old classification just addressing two parameters, oiliness and hydration. It’s really more about the holistic conditions of the skin in terms of health...
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Why is Switzerland offering cash prizes to retrieve munitions from lakes?
The Swiss Federal Department of Defence Procurement (Armasuisse) is offering 50,000 Swiss francs ($57,800) for the three best ideas on how to retrieve some 12,000 tonnes of old munitions from the country’s lakes, including Lake Thun, Lake Brienz and Lake Lucerne. “Armasuisse wants to involve academia and industry in the considerations on how environmentally friendly...
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Former Sporting Lagos Attacker Becomes An Instant Hit In Switzerland
Former Sporting Lagos Attacker Becomes An Instant Hit In Switzerland Sampson Adedeji With less than six months in Switzerland, former Sporting Lagos attacker Paschal Durugbor Onyekachi has become an instant hit in the Swiss League, BSNSports.com.ng reports. The lanky attacker joined Sporting Lagos from the Nigeria National League side 1472 FC on a free transfer...
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Olympic golf leaderboard: Women’s scores, results from Round 3 at Le Golf National
It’s onto the final round of women’s golf at the 2024 Paris Olympics. And following a day of golf that saw quite the movement and change across the leaderboard, Friday’s Round 3 set up what should be an entertaining and big final round of golf at Le Golf National on Saturday — including the possibility...