The Swiss data protection commissioner and government privacy officials from a handful of other countries have written to Google to raise privacy concerns about its wearable computing eyewear, Glass. (Photo: Keystone)

The House of Representatives has clearly rejected a planned law allowing Swiss banks to hand over data of suspected tax dodgers to the United States. Discussions in parliament are continuing on Wednesday. (Photo: Keystone)

One hundred days after his election, Pope Francis I is enjoying a positive image and heightened popularity. Although he hasn’t been in his seat long, observers estimate that signs are showing the “pope of the poor” will become an important decision-maker. (Photo: Reuters)

City of London police have charged a former UBS trader with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud, as part of the investigation into the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, uncovered last year. (Photo: Keystone)

The House of Representatives has voted against a planned law allowing Swiss banks to hand over data of suspected tax dodgers to the United States. The bill will now go back to the Senate. (Photo: AFP)

Backed by billionaires, a major new biotech research initiative in Geneva dubbed ‘Campus Biotech’ looks set to shift Switzerland’s ‘Health Valley’ up a gear. Coming after major job losses in the region, it is receiving a cautious welcome. (Photo: Keystone)

The Lake Geneva region, and the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in particular, is fertile territory for medical technology research and the creation of start-ups. (Photo: swissinfo)

A six-metre-high, 35-tonne ball of rubbish has landed in the Plaine de Plainpalais in central Geneva, where it will remain until the end of the month. The city authorities want to draw attention to the problem of littering. (Photo: Keystone)

The European Union has called on Switzerland to agree to swift and unconditional negotiations on the introduction of an automatic exchange of banking information – doing away with banking secrecy to crack down on tax evasion by foreign asset holders. (Photo: Keystone)

The Swiss government has described the systematic internet monitoring allegedly practised by the US intelligence service, NSA, as an “excessive infringement of the private sphere”, whose protection is guaranteed by the federal constitution. (Photo: Keystone)

Minor depression, which is widespread in Switzerland, should not be underestimated: those affected are often unfit for work, less productive and suffer from physical complaints, which affect their everyday lives says a report issued on Monday. (Photo: Keystone)

Wealthy Swiss amass their fortunes more often through inheritance and savings, rather than through entrepreneurship as in other countries, according to a survey by financial services provider Barclays. (Photo: Keystone)

For the past 20 years, more and more countries have been affected by desertification – and not just because of climate change. Experts say that some agricultural practices have also had disastrous effects. (Photo: AFP)

Advancing deserts are not unstoppable. By planting trees, it is possible to redevelop the soil and create an ecosystem that is more favourable for agriculture. The Swiss association Sylla Caap is convinced of this and in the savannah of Senegal has started building a Great Green Wall. (Luigi Jorio, swissinfo.ch) (Photo: swissinfo)

In response to an American whistleblower’s revelations of US spies operating in Geneva, Swiss president Ueli Maurer has called for a broadening of legislation to allow for investigations into foreign spy activity in Switzerland. (Photo: Keystone)

At the age of 12, Angelia Maria Schwaller from the sleepy village of Überstorf in canton Fribourg discovered the internet. She sought out likeminded people on forums to learn from and exchange ideas with. Her passion – poetry. (Photo: Filipa Cordeiro, swissinfo.ch)

An Art Basel installation was the site of clashes between police and illegal partiers on Friday night after revellers launched an impromptu gathering at the outdoor “Favela Café” exhibit on Basel’s Messeplatz. (Photo: Keystone)

Art is many things to many people, from buskers on the streets of Art Basel to controversial banned photographs in the Facebook era. And for some American singers, it means re-discovering their Swiss roots through music . (Photo: Keystone)

Pictures of Switzerland normally include its idyllic countryside, lakes and buildings. However, an exhibition at the Swiss Foundation for Photography in Winterthur is showing works by seven photographers that show a different and topical view of the country. (Photo: Nicolas Faure)

The Swiss cabinet says it wants to take an active role in developing global standards for the automatic exchange of banking information to avoid clashes with other countries over tax issues. (Photo: Keystone)