Sophia Loren gets new grandson in Geneva
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Long-time Geneva resident and Italian actress Sophia Loren, 76, has a new grandson. The boy was born to her son, director/writer Edoardo Ponti and...
View ArticleUK judge refuses to rule on sterilizing mother
GenevaLunch News A judge has ruled there is not enough evidence for the court to decide on a complex case in the UK that involves a request to sterilize without her agreement a mother who is referred...
View ArticleClimber Loretan’s companion, who survived their fall, speaks up
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Erhard Loretan, Swiss climber of legendary stature, shocked the world with his death on his 52nd birthday in April 2011, in a fall climbing a mountain he knew well,...
View ArticleSurvivors cheer Turkey, but snow hampers rescue work
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Work continues to find survivors and clear rubble five days after the area around the town of Ercis was struck 23 October by a 7.5 earthquake, but snow and...
View ArticleManila gets no. 7b baby, but worries over All Saints Day
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Philippines is focusing more than usual on births and deaths with the UN declaring a girl born in Manila 30 October shortly before midnight, Danica May...
View ArticleZoo surprise: big brothers are carrying new baby red titi
GenevaLunch News BASEL, SWITZERLAND – The Basel Zoo has announced the birth of its latest monkey, a little red or coppery titi, born 27 December to mother Chica, age 9 and father Gunther, age 6. The...
View ArticleMigros recalls moose baby slippers
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Migros is alerting the public to blue and white baby slippers with a moose head decoration that it is recalling for quality problems: parts on the moose head can...
View ArticleSports, cycling: Cancellara drops out of Tour for pregnant wife
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Fabin Cancellara, who will represent Switzerland at the Olympics in London, has cut short the Tour de France bike race to join his wife, who is about to give birth...
View ArticleMissing person: police launch new appeal, saying her disappearance “worrisome”
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The search is being stepped up for a woman reported as missing 28 October in canton Vaud, with police launching a new appeal to the public, saying that they are...
View ArticleLausanne area missing woman’s body found, husband confesses
GenevaLunch News Husband says couple fought – he strangled then buried her in woods near Assens LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The body of 36-year-old Claudia Gessenay, missing from her home in Assens since...
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