Berlin  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is likely to raise the contentious issue of tax evasion and Swiss bank secrecy when she visits Berne this week, the official government spokesman said Mond

New Delhi,

Zurich - Switzerland's second biggest bank Credit Suisse reported Thursday a bigger-than-expected first quarter loss as well as another 5.3 billion Swiss francs (5.2 billion) in write-downs of risk

Basel, Switzerland 

Athens - returned a 2,400-year-old funerary urn to Greece on Monday after dis

Basel, Switzerland  - Swiss-based international seed and pesticide firm Syngenta said Thursday it plans to open a multimillion-dollar research and technology centre for the development of genetical