Update: Wisconsin hostage-taking student dies in hospital
GenevaLunch News Samuel Hengel, the 15-year-old student in Marinette, Wisconsin, north of Green Bay in the US, who held then released 24 hostages and then shot and injured himself, died in hospital 30...
View ArticleBesancon children safely home after hostage crisis
GenevaLunch News Besancon, France (GenevaLunch) – The French town of Besancon, near the Swiss border, is breathing more easily early Tuesday after 20 young children and their teacher, taken hostage at...
View ArticleThe perfect anti-wolf music is ?
GenevaLunch News (Chinese video) Well, we aren’t sure. Spiegel in Germany says “Overcome” by American band Creed, but Ria Novosti in Russia says it was “thrash band Megadeth”. Whatever the music, that...
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 ArticleGeneva family files complaint after 12-yr-old’s sexual assault
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 12-year-old girl in the Geneva area was forced to commit fellatio by a group of youths, two of whom she knew from school, last Friday 4 February,...
View ArticleWednesday likely to become school day in Geneva
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva is the only canton where children up to age 12 don’t attend school on Wednesday morning, but this is likely to change in 2013. The cantonal government...
View ArticlePayerne students evacuate after vacuum cleaner burns
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Some 350 students unexpectedly had a free hour, but out in the chilly November air Wednesday morning after an industrial vacuum cleaner caught fire at a school...
View ArticleSpecial needs children: ASK has answers
GenevaLunch News The non-profit organization All Special Kids, ASK, helps families of children with all kinds of special needs, from gifted to attention deficit disorders, autism to dyspraxia or...
View ArticleEaster traffic: plan now to avoid the crush on Swiss roads
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Federal Highway Office has issued its annual Easter vacation and spring holidays traffic warnings. Switzerland sits at the centre of European’s...
View ArticleYoga it is, little fella!
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE / ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss high court has ruled that the parents of a small boy were out of line in saying their son should not have to take part in his kindergarten...
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