Fiat boss crunches Ferrari

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has survived a car crash in canton Solothurn unscathed, but the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano he was driving is a write-off. The former head of Swiss firms SGS and Lonza rear-ended another car on the A1 motorway according to reports in the Blick tabloid and the Aargauer Zeitung newspaper. Local [...]

Hamilton speeding to tax haven

British motor racing star Lewis Hamilton is set to join the growing number of Formula 1 drivers and other rich foreigners to settle in Switzerland- in the Geneva area according to Le Matin newspaper. The Mclaren driver says he wants to escape incessant attention at home, but he could also save millions in taxes. Hamilton [...]

Hingis retires on a “high” note

Switzerland’s former world number one tennis player Martina Hingis has retired – for the second time – from sport at the ripe old age of 27. This time it’s not injury – or bad shoes – putting paid to her ambitions, but a positive drug test. If a Wimbledon drug check is to [...]

Swatch boss seeks creative prop from Clooney

Swatch chairman Nicolas G. Hayek says Hollywood star George Clooney will sit on the board of a new company that is to develop clean energy systems in Switzerland. Hayek, who will be chairman of the company, said he had hesitated between Clooney and former US vice-president Al Gore for a board seat but plumped for [...]

Singer vents his anger on tabloid

Swiss singer – or singing hairdresser – Piero Esteriore has tried to avenge himself of an article in the tabloid Blick that wasn’t to his taste (apparently the journalist wrote that his recent celebrity birthday party was more akin to a mafia funeral.) On Thursday, he crashed a Mercedes through the front door of the [...]