Nissan has answered the Indian roads at the recently held Geneva show, it's newly MICRA.

This hatchback is yet to feature its production in India. But, promises soon to see itself flowing on the roads of Indian subcontinent.

As per a research study conducted at the Geneva School of Business, a wife five years younger than you and from a similar cultural background increases the chances of a longer and happier married life.

A little bird told us that Citroën DS3 Racing is set for launch for Geneva.

Although one can lay hands on the new card only by August when the official launch is scheduled. This exclusive model has 1000 units to be launched. It is powered by the BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroen which boasts off 1.6 litre turbo charged engine generating a torque of 275Nm and a power of 150kW. Modifications such as lowering of suspension, widening of track were significantly noted.

Geneva, Dec 16 : The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has visited three members of Afghan security forces detained by the Taliban, the ICRC said Wednesday.

The meetings took place in Badghis province in north-western Afghanistan at the end of November.

"This is the first time since the beginning of the current conflict that the ICRC has visited people detained by the armed opposition," said Reto Stocker, ICRC head of delegation in Kabul.

Geneva, Dec. 2 : The Pakistan government has finally claimed back evidence of the cases filed in the Swiss court against many influential personalities, who were benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinace (NRO).

The files, which were stacked inside a lawyer’s office here, have been removed and are likely to be taken back to Islamabad, The News reports.

Geneva, Nov 30 : The United Nations said Monday it aimed to study the legality of the ban on the building of new minarets in

Switzerland as a result of the country's referendum on Sunday.

A spokesman for the UN High Commission on Human Rights said in Geneva that experts would study whether the ban was in harmony with international law.

On a day of reaction ranging from outrage to alarm in both Muslim

and Western countries alike to the Swiss referendum outcome, the

Swiss government was coming in for criticism for even permitting the vote to be held in the first place.

Geneva, Nov. 30 : An overwhelming majority of the Swiss population voting against the construction of new minarets has caused greater pain to the Muslims in the country than the national ban altogether.

Muslims no longer feel accepted in Switzerland after more than 57 percent of Swiss resident voters on Sunday – a majority in 22 out of the country''s 26''s cantons – approved a proposal to ban the construction of new minarets, the prayer towers of mosques.

“Most painful for us is not the minaret ban, but the symbol sent by this vote. Muslims do not feel accepted as a religious community,” the New York Times quoted Farhad Afshar, who runs the Coordination of Islamic Organizations in Switzerland, as saying.

Geneva, Nov. 22 : United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders and cadres will be given safe passage and a chance to return to mainstream society only if they give up the path of violence and unconditionally lay down their arms, sources here have said.

They said that though the ULFA and some other north eastern rebel groups are banned, the Centre is ready for resumption of unconditional talks with them if they abjure violence and insurgent activity.

“They must give up the path of terror. Some of these people are in Bangladesh, and if they are willing to come to India to hold talks, the Centre will talk to them,” the sources said.

Geneva - A French staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been kidnapped by unknown armed men in Chad, the humanitarian organization said in Geneva on Tuesday.

Laurent Maurice, an agronomist, was taken by the group at gunpoint in the village of Kawa near the border with Sudan on Monday night, the ICRC said.

Maurice had been evaluating the most recent harvest in the area and planned, along with his five local colleagues, to spend the night in Kawa, where the ICRC helps to run a healthcare centre.

Geneva  - The United Nations telecommunications unit has announced it's found the solution to the lack of universality in chargers for mobile phones.

The International Telecommunications Union in Geneva says it has approved "an energy-efficient one-charger-fits-all" solution to given juice to mobiles' batteries.

"Every mobile phone user will benefit from the new Universal Charging Solution (UCS), which enables the same charger to be used for all future handsets, regardless of make and model," a statement on the ITU website said.

Geneva, Oct 31 - More than 700 people have died of swine flu this week raising the number of fatalities from the viral disease to 5,712 worldwide, Xinhua reported citing the UN health agency Friday.

Of all the deaths, 4,175 occurred in the Americas, 605 occurred in South-East Asia and 465 occurred in the West Pacific. Europe, East Mediterranean and Africa reported 281, 111 and 75 deaths respectively, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a latest update Friday.

Geneva/Vienna - World Health Organization advisors recommend that children get only one shot of swine flu vaccine, a WHO official said Friday in Geneva, reversing the organization's previous view that children should receive two doses.

The recommendation by the WHO's vaccine advisory group SAGE was based on the view that as many people as possible should be immunized, given the scarcity of vaccines in some countries, according to WHO official Marie-Paule Kieny.

Geneva  - Switzerland has authorized two vaccines against the A(H1N1) pandemic virus, the regulating agency said Friday.

One shot of Pandemrix, manufactured by GlaxSmithKline, mixed with the AS03 adjuvant, would be sufficient for antibody formation, Swissmedic said.

It did not, however, authorize the vaccine for pregnant women, children under the age of 18 and adults over 60, as it lacked data on those groups.

Geneva - Argentinian football star Lionel Messi joined Thursday a campaign to support the humanitarian work of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

The "Our world. Your move" campaign, launched in May, aims to highlight humanitarian problems and the roles individuals can play to effect change.

"In life, as in sport, we're able to do more and achieve more when we work as a team," the Barcelona player Messi said in a statement.

Geneva - The decline in air travel may have hit bottom, the International Air Transport Association said Thursday, but warned that a recovery was still a long way off.

"The airline industry remains firmly in the red with a fragile business environment," Giovanni Bisignani, the head of IATA, said in a statement.

Rising costs were a concern for the airlines, he said, with IATA noting that oil prices have jumped to well above 75 dollars per barrel, whilst at the start of the year a barrel was selling for 43 dollars.

Geneva - Swiss chemicals and biotechnology company Lonza said Thursday that unexpected reductions in orders have led the company to reduce its expectations for full year operational earnings to 360 to 380 million Swiss francs (351-370 million dollars).

The company said an accumulation of cancellations, postponements and price-volume reductions were behind the target reduction, along with a delay in a cell therapy project due to clinical disappointments.

Lonza also announced 60-80 million francs in cost-cutting measures over the next two years, through consolidation of business units and adaptation of capacities.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, that will recreate conditions that existed in the beginning of the universe, is ready.

The 27 km tunnel in which the high energy particle accelerator is located is now finally shut, indicating that the world’s most expensive science experiment is set to restart.

Atul Gurtu, a physicist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), which has been involved with the LHC at various stages, has just returned from the LHC site.

“The first low energy beam is likely to be injected into the particle accelerator in mid-November,” Gurtu said.

Geneva  - Switzerland on Wednesday strongly condemned as
"barbaric" the attack in the Afghan capital Kabul which killed nine
people, including six employees of the United Nations.

"The attack was intended to undermine the efforts of the world
community to support Afghanistan on the road to building democracy
and implementing social and economic change," the Federal Department

Geneva - Civilians in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo live in constant fear and face a critical humanitarian situation as rebels keep up attacks, the humanitarian aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders, MSF) said Wednesday.

The attacks include the kidnapping of children and abduction of women and girls into sex slavery, Kenneth LaVelle of MSF's Swiss branch told reporters in Geneva after four months in the DR Congo.

Geneva/Harare - Zimbabwe's government called off at the last minute a visit by a United Nations expert on torture that had been due to start Wednesday, the UN announced.

The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, had been invited by President Robert Mugabe's government to visit Zimbabwe from 28 October to 4 November 2009.

But on arriving in Johannesburg, en route to Harare, he was informed that the mission had been called off, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights