Read more Switzerland stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2306/switzerland.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:11:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74538/hadron-collider-restarts-briefly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Large Hadron Collider roared to life today for the first time since September 2008. "The first tests of injecting subatomic particles" took just a fraction of a second, a CERN rep said, but the circulation of the proton beams confirmed that the repairs instituted 9 days after the collider...http://www.newser.com/story/74538/hadron-collider-restarts-briefly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 18:06:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74277/15k-yanks-turn-selves-in-for-offshore-tax-cheating.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagProdded by the stick of a looming crackdown on offshore tax cheats and the carrot of an IRS amnesty program, some 14,700 rich Americans have turned themselves in, disclosing billions in hidden foreign assets. The "unprecedented" participation in the amnesty program surprised the IRS and advisers to the super-rich...http://www.newser.com/story/74277/15k-yanks-turn-selves-in-for-offshore-tax-cheating.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 9:57:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73450/breadcrumb-latest-speed-bump-for-collider.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe enormous science project buried beneath the France-Switzerland border has seen all kinds of detours in its search for the so-called “God particle”—busted vacuum tubes, al-Qaeda moles—so the latest might not be a huge surprise: A piece of bread dropped by a bird onto an outdoor segment caused...http://www.newser.com/story/73450/breadcrumb-latest-speed-bump-for-collider.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 6:29:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73364/swiss-to-vote-on-minaret-ban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSwiss government and business leaders are having a panic attack over a referendum that would ban minarets on mosques—and, they fear, make the country a target for Islamic terrorism. The handiwork of the anti-immigrant Swiss People's Party, infamous for an earlier campaign poster showing a white sheep kicking a...http://www.newser.com/story/73364/swiss-to-vote-on-minaret-ban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 6:47:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72801/swiss-crack-down-on-suicide-tourism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSwiss authorities are trying to cut back on the numbers of people swarming its borders with the intention of dying. The government plans to cut back or even ban assisted suicide amid concerns that too many people—some of them not suffering terminal illnesses—are traveling to Switzerland for assisted...http://www.newser.com/story/72801/swiss-crack-down-on-suicide-tourism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 Oct 2009 3:55:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72601/polanski-victim-wants-case-dropped.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe woman who was raped by Roman Polanski when she was 13 wants the charge against the fugitive director dropped. Polanski pleaded guilty in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor but fled before sentencing. He's in custody in Switzerland and Samantha Geimer, who lives in Hawaii, is under...http://www.newser.com/story/72601/polanski-victim-wants-case-dropped.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Oct 2009 17:35:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72402/us-moves-to-extradite-polanski.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American embassy in Switzerland formally requested the extradition of Roman Polanski last night, paving the way for the convicted director to face an American court for the first time since 1977. A tribunal in Zurich will now hold a hearing, although Polanski may appeal to the country's high court...http://www.newser.com/story/72402/us-moves-to-extradite-polanski.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Oct 2009 5:18:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72223/polanski-may-take-his-chances-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRoman Polanski, denied bail or house arrest in Switzerland, may try his luck in the United States after 31 years. “If this process drags on, it is not completely impossible that Roman Polanski could choose to go finally to explain himself in the United States where the arguments in his...http://www.newser.com/story/72223/polanski-may-take-his-chances-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 9:36:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72167/swiss-tipped-us-to-polanski-trip.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSwiss authorities set in motion the arrest of fugitive director Roman Polanski in his decades-old child sex case as he traveled to the country last month, emails obtained by the AP show. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice alerted US law enforcement Sept. 22 that Polanski, 76, was due in...http://www.newser.com/story/72167/swiss-tipped-us-to-polanski-trip.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 20:53:05 CDT