International sports, athletics: Bolt strikes again! Second new world record
GenevaLunch News Berlin, Germany (GenevaLunch) – Usain Bolt matched his performance in the 100 metres with another record-smashing race in the 200 metres. He broke his own world record of 19.30 seconds...
View ArticleInternational sports, athletics: Bolt in Zurich meet tonight
GenevaLunch News Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Zurich Weltklasse meet promises a feast of athletics this evening. The fun starts at 18:15 with junior races, the opening ceremony will be at...
View ArticleBerlin, 20 years later (Chappatte cartoon)
GenevaLunch News © Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le...
View ArticleTourists, political figures flock to Berlin to remember the Wall
GenevaLunch News Berlin Monday 9 November is recalling the fall of the wall that divided East from West, politically if not necessarily geographically. Thousands of tourists are in the city for...
View ArticleBerlin (Chappatte cartoon) gets graphic journalism treatment
GenevaLunch News Update 18:35 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Patrick Chappatte, whose political cartoons regularly appear in GenevaLunch, is commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall by...
View ArticleBus crash near Berlin kills 13, injures 19 others
GenevaLunch News A bus carrying Polish holiday-makers on their way home from Spain careened out of control on the A10 motorway south of Berlin, killing 13 people and seriously injuring 19 others. The...
View Article“Hitler and the Germans” exhibit opens in Berlin
GenevaLunch News An exhibition that explores the complex relationship between Adolf Hitler and German society in the 1930s and 1940s opens Friday 15 October at the German Historical Museum in Berlin,...
View ArticleFour Bern students arrested in Berlin for assault
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – In the third such incident in two years, a group of Swiss students have been arrested for violence while on a school trip abroad. Four young men, age...
View ArticleStrauss-Kahn, likely French candidate, arrested in NYC (update 2)
GenevaLunch News IMF head to appear before judge Sunday to hear sexual assault charges Update 2, 11:00 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF (International...
View Article“You got me”, Canada’s presumed ghoulish murderer, to Berlin police
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The man presumed to be behind the murder of 32-year-old Chinese student Jun Lin in Montreal, and who then mailed the body parts to members of parliament among...
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