Switzerland

The initial performance of the new Mandarin Oriental hotel at Costa Navarino is particularly satisfactory, says the head of the ultra-luxury hotel management chain in Greece, Raul Levis.

NEW YORK - Serbia's top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic is through to the US Open quarter-finals after beating Croatian Borna Gojo 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.

Djokovic, who won after 146 minutes of play, has reached his 13th career US Open quarter-final and will next face American Taylor Fritz, who defeated Switzerland's Dominic Stricker 7-6 (7-2), 6-4.

The remains of a climber discovered in the Swiss Alps last year have been identified as a British mountaineer who went missing 52 years ago, local police said on Aug. 31.

It is the latest in a series of discoveries of remains of long-missing climbers revealed as the Alp's glaciers melt and recede because of global warming.

Turkish champions Galatasaray will begin their first UEFA Champions League campaign in four years in a strong group featuring Bayern Munich and Manchester United.

The two giants will be favourites to advance from Group A, which also includes FC Copenhagen, the Danish champions.

Τhe United Arab Emirates Air Force aerobatic display team and two Typhoons arrived in Athens on Monday to take part in the 11th Athens Flying Week 2023 taking place on September 2-3.

Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign against the emissions-spewing lifestyles of the ultrawealthy.

Claude Ruiz Picasso, the younger son of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, has died in Switzerland aged 76, his lawyer told AFP on Aug. 24.

He did not give the cause of death.

Ruiz Picasso managed the Picasso estate from 1989 to July 2023, when he handed over responsibility to his sister, Paloma.

Picasso had four children.

Using a powerful torch, Aliki Buhayer-Mach momentarily drenches a nearby mountain top in light, straining to see if wolves are lurking in the shadows.

If the predator were to get past the electric wires stretched around this high-altitude pasture in the Swiss Alps, the 57-year-old biologist knows "it would be a massacre."

Companies selling products online single out the commission fees marketplaces charge as the biggest problem they face, a study has found.

Shipping costs, excessive competition and logistics-related problems are other main issues companies complain about, according to a survey the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (İTO) commissioned.

A sting operation at a London hotel helped authorities recover a 15th-century Chinese vase worth about 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) and break up the criminal ring believed to have stolen the artifact from a Swiss museum, British police said Saturday.