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Update 14:45 Lausanne, Switzerland GenevaLunch - Juan Antonio Samaranch, who for 21 years headed the International Olympic Committee based in Lausanne, has died in Barcelona of heart failure. He was ...

Lausanne hopes its online conversation will stimulate discussion among the world's evangelicals on challenges faced by the church today. With its third congress on world evangelisation just months away, Lausanne ...

In 1993, Samaranch initiated the opening of the Olympics Museum in Switzerland's Lausanne. At the IOC session in Lausanne in 1999, Samaranch made a number of crucial decisions aimed at ...

FILE - This April 17, 2001, file photo, shows Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, listens to the translation of a journalist's question during a news conference ...

... where the executive board is meeting to consider whether to expel members accused in the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the Olympic Games, at IOC headquarters in ...

Following the defeat of the Allied invasion forces on September 9, 1922 and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne on July 24, 1923, Ataturk started his task of establishing ...

and the bank would go bankrupt,” Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told the Lausanne-based newspaper Le Matin Dimanche on Jan. 31. Almost 37 percent of UBS’s 65,233 employees were in ...

Philippe Braunschweig, the heir to a Swiss watchmaking fortune who founded the innovative and prestigious Prix de Lausanne ballet competition for young dancers, died on Saturday in Vevey, Switzerland, where ...

German-born chemist Graetzel, director of the photonics and interfaces laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland, was lauded for inventing "dye-sensitized, low cost-high performance solar cells," which led ...

German-born chemist Graetzel, director of the photonics and interfaces laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland, was lauded for inventing "dye-sensitized, low cost-high performance solar cells," which led ...