The Swiss city of Zurich has banned municipal workers from having overbearing body odour.

The ban is part of a draconian list of rules on behaviour and dress code issued by city officials, which includes bans on strong perfume and plunging necklines. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

This may be the most fun place to work in the world. picked by ted 2 years ago

Works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh were stolen from an art foundation's gallery in Zurich, Switzerland. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Awesome ad for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. picked by theamelianator 2 years ago

A giant plastic statue of Michael Jackson has been unveiled... picked by topofall 5 months ago

Mercer study ranks cities by the quality of life they offer expatriate executives and their families across the world. picked by karenben 2 years ago

I was looking for this a while back and never found it, so glad I remembered to look for it today. :) picked by 86Apex 2 years ago

After a nearly three year battle, a man who punched an American Airlines flight attendant on a plane traveling from Zurich to New York has been unable to clear his name. picked by suebe 9 months ago

Mercer Consulting's annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning. picked by kakana 5 months ago

That's it. I'm applying for a job at Google! picked by Ankabout 9 months ago

GRETNA, La. (AP) - Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf event when he felt a sting in his right arm, just above his elbow.

Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve and a .22-caliber bullet fell to the ground, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. picked by ImNotBlue 2 years ago

Plane Landing is a sculpture of an airplane in a permanent state of landing. On July 4 and 5, 2008 Plane Landing appeared at the Zurich Airport as part of the show 'Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now', curated by Mirjam Varadinis for Kunsthaus Zurich. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Chondritic meteorites have a similar chemical composition to the sun and are therefore reliable witnesses as to what the solar nebula, from which the planets formed, was composed of. This can be used to deduce what the Earth consists of chemically. However, ETH Zurich researchers have now discovered that strictly speaking this fundamental geological assumption is not true. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Vienna has passed Zurich to take the top spot as the world’s city with the best quality of living, according to the Mercer 2009 Quality of Living Survey. Geneva retains its position in third place, while Vancouver and Auckland are now joint fourth in the rankings. picked by bornbad 7 months ago

A forward thinking artist from Zurich started an internet phenomenon, paintings of numbers, between 1 and 1000. How are they valued?
Value = 1,000 – number

The idea and experience is written up in the December issue of Wired Magazine picked by c1010010 3 years ago