The turtle is named after the Roman God with two faces, although if you’re feeling philosophical, you could argue that, rather than being one turtle with two heads, Janus is in fact two turtles with one body. What do you think?
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Swiss army identifies gaps in civil aircraft collision warning system
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The Cyber-Defence Campus of the Swiss defence ministry has found two vulnerabilities in the collision warning system for civil aviation.
Swiss parents rely on savings accounts for their children instead of investment funds
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According to the survey, over 60% of parents start saving in the first year of life, and around 10% even before the child is born.
Half the Swiss army’s M113 armoured vehicles rehabilitated
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Half of the Swiss army's 248 M113 grenadier armoured vehicles are back on the road after being temporarily decommisioned.
Voters in Zurich reject pay rise for local politicians
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Local parliamentarians in Zurich will not receive a pay hike after 53.2% of voters in the city came out against the plan on Sunday.
Minimum wage narrowly rejected in canton Basel Country
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The Unia trade union initiative had called for a minimum wage of CHF22 ($24.20) per hour for all employees working in the canton.
Bernese voters accept counter-proposal to solar initiative
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In the Swiss canton of Bern, there will still be no solar obligation for roof renovations in the future, but there will be one for large car parks.
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Two-thirds of Swiss people feel that cohesion in the country is “rather weak”, according to a study. Some 83% of respondents even felt that the sense of community was declining.
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Battling to preserve the Great Barrier Reef
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While Europe is preparing to hibernate through the winter, tropical north-eastern Australia is already warming up under a hot spring sun. Katia Nicolet, 27, picks me up from the airport and takes me to the city centre, passing Castle Hill, the 300-metre-high red granite mass that dominates the skyline. Sitting outside a downtown café, Katia…
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Basel Zoo – known affectionately to locals as the “Zolli” – is looking to expand further into the city, by building what it calls an Ozeanium in an area of town which is ripe for renovation. While such centres can be found in a number of countries, they are generally on the coast. There is…
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Documentary maker Marianne Pletscher spent two and a half years at the zoo observing its efforts to encourage orang-utans and snow leopards to produce babies. Love, death – and, of course, sex – all feature in the film, which also has a serious message about animal conservation. One of the stars of the two-part documentary,…
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