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• More plastic pollution in Lake Geneva

  Lake Geneva is up to 656 times more polluted by microplastics than previously thought, according to a new University of Lausanne and EPFL study

• Popular summer season for swimming

  Swimming pools across French-speaking Switzerland have recorded unprecedented visitor numbers this summer, driven by four separate heatwaves

• Gender pay gap still significant

  Switzerland's gender pay gap has narrowed slightly, but the unexplained portion still amounts to around CHF 640.- per month for women

• Electric scooter ban

  Starbucks has banned electric scooters from all its Swiss branches, and Coop and Migros have followed suit

• Latest on weekend rave shooting

  Swiss police have escalated the Aarau shooting to an international manhunt, with Fedpol launching arrest warrants through national and international systems

• Widowhood affects men more than women

  A University of Geneva study has confirmed what demographers call the "widowhood effect", and it hits Swiss men harder than women