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Extraordinary healings that sometimes leave even medical professionals stunned are modern-day miracles for the patients involved. But they're more than just individual remissions - these recoveries ...
Unmasking long COVID's medical maze, as patients tend to grasp at random any remedies that might work. For Caroline, Gloria, and Aurélie, long COVID upended life itself - and mainstream medicine is ...
Has masculinity become an ideological battle that mirrors society’s deepening fractures? You may have heard about Incels, but what about pick-up artists, MRAs and MGTOWs? All these masculinists ...
Can the wolf cohabit with man? In Switzerland, the summer has been deadly on the mountain pastures. Angry breeders lock horns with officials and are not satisfied with slain livestock indemnities. ...
Scientific fraud is gaining momentum, threatening to erode the very foundations of knowledge. From blatant plagiarism and cooked data to doctored images, some scientists are willing to cheat to ...
Can we still eat meat with a clear conscience? Accused of endangering our health and our planet, meat is no longer on the up-and-up. In Switzerland, the government has updated its climate strategy ...
Five years after the defeat of the Islamic State, 70,000 men, women and children from around the world are still detained by the Kurds in northeastern Syria. The security situation in the camps where ...
Russia is about to elect its president, and the lack of suspense is matched by the terror that reigns in this campaign. While crowds have turned out to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's ...
Who still believes in the good intentions of Big Tobacco? Puffs are getting young people hooked on nicotine. These disposable electronic cigarettes with a fruity taste are the latest products used by ...
Our journalists investigate GLP-1 analogues, the drugs that s said to help anyone shed pounds effortlessly. Touted as miracle drugs for weight loss and type 2 diabetes on social networks, they're ...
February 25, 2023, a boat filmed by Frontex is about to sink off the coast of Crotone, Italy. Of the 190 migrants on board, almost half will die, including 35 children. Among the victims was Kenan. ...
Ten years ago, Adeline Morel accompanied an inmate on a therapeutic outing. Fabrice A., twice convicted of aggravated rape, slit her throat. The killer was sentenced to life imprisonment, and joined ...
More and more young girls fall into prostitution. It all starts with a honeymoon and promises of eternal love. But the degree of control and influence exercised by their lover will have them trapped ...
After 18 months of war in Ukraine, the massive sanctions against the Russian economy seem to be ineffective. Private jets and mansions, bank accounts and financial assets: in the hunt for oligarchs ...
Too big to fail Crédit Suisse ended up being carried away by a storm of scandals that precipitated its fall. The Swiss finance giant was forced to be taken over by UBS. It all happened very quickly ...
Using one’s cell phone while driving has become commonplace yet it is a real scourge for road safety. Having one’s eyes riveted on the screen while driving triples the risk of accidents. In ...
Who is really Nathalie Yamb, the pro-Putin influencer spreading the Kremlin's agenda on her popular social media posts? What are the links between Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, and Afric, Russia’s ...
Is detransition taboo in the queer community? Why has the debate around gender issues become so controversial? Chloé, Jess, Niki, Fanny and Zora all wanted to transition. Like them, many young ...
Into the heart of the war, we followed the lives of three Ukrainian couples, all of whom survived, sometimes miraculously, the conflict that disrupted the lives of 40 million Ukrainians. A chronicle ...
How can ecosystem monitoring be improved to respond quickly to the early stages of a new epidemic? How do scientists scrutinize the hot spots of contamination around the world? This investigation ...
How many pesticides can be found in fruits and vegetables? How are they controlled and studied? What are the real dangers associated with pesticide residues? Eating greens might not be just as ...
How did a mother turn from a helpless victim to a whistleblower in the Depakine health scandal? This anti-epileptic drug, produced by French Big Pharma giant Sanofi, is notoriously known to have ...
Big oil companies, like ExxonMobil or Shell, deliberately covered up the truth about global warming, whereas they had known about the disastrous impact of their products for more than 40 years, ...
Because of rising cancel culture controversies, humorists, comedians and cartoonists now find themselves in a tough spot. The debate around woke has brought culture wars to the forefront of ...
All youtubers dream of turning from amateurs to entrepreneurs mingling with the rich and famous, earning big money thanks to product placements and Youtube videos. Nico and Daniela, the couple ...
Is generalized DNA profiling for tomorrow? DNA has been used for nearly 20 years by the police and the justice system to solve serious criminal cases. We'll see how it is done in the field and how it ...
The gigantic business of food supplements stems from a desire shared by us all : that of boosting one's immune system in order to better cope with illness. But the evidence of effectiveness of food ...
In 2015, the WHO classified meat as "probably carcinogenic". What does the research say today? Can meat quality make a difference, both in terms of health and ecology? What is the value of age-old ...
This report denounces human trafficking and forced labor in one of the world’s richest capitals: Geneva. Undocumented migrants from Ukraine, Britain, Poland or Macedonia working on building sites ...
Scary fact : 2.2 billion people, i.e. 40% of the world's population, are considered overweight or obese. In Mexico, the figure skyrockets to 76%. Junk food plays the main role in this notorious ...
'There is no cure for who you are'. This is how a psychiatrist sums up how far we've come in recent years with regard to gender dysphoria, i.e. the permanent identification with the other gender and ...
More and more teenagers want get an Apollo body fast. They are inspired by models on the web and the social networks, from people who’ve increased their muscle mass fast, and they sometimes injure ...
Does voluntourism do more harm than good? Teaching English in Nepal, counting elephants in Botswana; paid volunteer missions abroad are very popular with young people. Many of them, full of ...
Hugely successful dating apps such as Tinder or GrindR have a dark side: they leave the field open to sexual predators. Encounters that go wrong, sexual brutality, rape, multiple and lasting traumas: ...
Our journalists investigate a feminicide which, by its violence, shocked the whole country. In October 2019, Christophe Keller slit his wife Melanie's throat before cutting his own. How to explain ...
They're young and have already botoxed them-selves up the wazoo! For the first time in the his-tory of cosmetic surgery, 18-34 year olds out-number 50 year olds in resorting to surgery acts. Relayed ...
How to account for the slow transition toward healthier agriculture as the overwhelming scientific evidence of the toxicity of pesticides is stacking up? Three quarters of flying insects have now ...
Are corpses just like any other commodity that can be sold with impunity? Donating one's body to science after death allows medical research and the training of surgeons to progress. But the ...
Buying the life insurance from seriously ill patients in order to make a profit when they die: welcome to the grim reality of the life settlements industry, a financial sector regularly boasting a ...
They are between 16 and 72 years of age and some of them speak out for the first time ever. Most incest victims, children of silence and pain, use raw and heavy words to speak about child abuse, in ...
He had everything going for him: sumptuous mistresses, despite a sham marriage, the prestige of power over Spain, whose democratic transition he had ensured after Francos's military dictatorship. ...
Climate change is already a reality. Because of higher temperatures new viruses are emerging that put the most fragile among us at risk. The south of France has been affected by increasingly violent ...
Ancestral healing therapies resist all scientific progress and healers are overwhelmed by patients requests. By helping us mobilize our self-healing abilities, healers sometimes seem to work ...
Tens of thousands of people across Europe have lost loved ones, sometimes several family members, during the first wave of the coronavirus. Now they are holding their government and health ...
From the 1980s until 2010, the NSA spied through a backdoor in the Solaris operating system that equipped hardware sold by Sun microsystems to countless Swiss companies and universities. Was the ...
The number of patients addicted to opioids is skyrocketing in Europe, even though their long-term effectiveness is much debated. The American crisis has raised awareness and many doctors are ...
David, a sports journalist, received anonymous death threats for a comment on a racist slur he made during a game. So did Carolina, for supporting female sexual liberation on her Youtube ...
Our journalists report on the true environmental impact of the plastics recycling industry lying behind the greenwashing of mass market retailers. Late 2018, China stopped importing plastic waste ...
Our journalists investigate into the controversial biobank sector. In 2019, 250,000 European families who thought they were protecting their children from rare genetic diseases by entrusting their ...
Global warming can have deadly consequences. In the summer of 2019, a French couple on vacation in the mountains lost their 6-year-old daughter Lisa as she was swept away by a mudslide in Chamoson, ...
Being exposed to too much screen time early on may cause serious consequences on the development of preschool-aged children. Delayed language acquisition and behavioural ssues are regularly observed ...
Where exactly did the coronavirus come from? From an exotic animal captured for the Wuhan pet market? From the P4 lab incriminated by conspiracy theories? Did African pangolins imported into China by ...
Any person assisting or attempting to assist the unauthorised entry of a foreigner in the EU is liable for prosecution. This "crime" has a name: the offense of solidarity. In theory, European ...
After years of battle, Christian, aged 40, married and the father of a girl, became Christine, the first transgender high-ranking officer in the Swiss army. Before her, Claudia, also in the army, had ...
What is the daily life of the nurses who spend their lives saving the lives of others? How do they manage deal with the stress of every moment, and the lack of time that sometimes prevents them from ...
They present themselves as "shamans", "medicine men" with mysterious healing powers. Some of them do not hesitate to take advantage of gullible Europeans to thrive on a juicy business where therapy, ...
This report shot in Sicily and Nigeria investigates the sex trafficking of young Nigerian women forced into prostitution throughout Europe after being manipulated and bewitched during voodoo rituals. ...
What is the true cost of cheap clothes, a large part of which are now made in Ethiopia? With wages almost ten times lower than in China, Ethiopia has become the new Eldorado of the fasion industry. ...
Who are the animal rights activists calling for an antispeciesist revolution? Over the past few years, they have illegally occupied slaughterhouses, freed animal held in poor conditions, smashed up ...
Should the children of the European Isis fighters who have died in combat be flown home? For their grandparents, getting these children out of the Syrian chaos is absolutely necessary.But how can one ...
Why are millennials the least sexually active generation in decades? The sexual recession, documented by sexologists for several years, is cause for concern. The blame lies with too much pressure ...
For many decades, Sri Lanka and Lebanon's stolen babies flooded the adoption market to fill the heart of European would-be parents with happiness. For these children, now adult themselves, seeking ...
As more countries are rushing to prepare the commercial launch of 5G, the unchartered territory for 5G mobile networks has become a concern for a growing proportion of the population. However, 5G ...
Millions of youth worldwide took to the streets to urge their leaders to combat climate change faster. How come the awareness of climate emergency so suddenly took off among Greta Thunberg fellow ...
Our journalists investigate the ethical, social and economic issues related to the commercialization of the human genome. DNA tests claiming to reveal the origins of one's ancestors are all the rage ...
The Donbass War is a silent, murderous conflict that has been tearing apart eastern Ukraine since 2014. Women represent nearly a quarter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the struggle against ...
Faced with the growing success of vaporizers, the tobacco empire strikes back. With IQOS, Glo, Ploom, etc., cigarette companies have found a way to sell both tobacco and electronic devices. But are ...
It has never been easier to buy your dog online.But a dirty business of dog smuggling spreading allover Europe lies behind thousands of internet ads.The unsuspecting buyers often have no clue ...
Will we ever be immortal? Is living better, healthier, longer lives what science and technology have in store for us in the short run? Paraplegics can now start walking again thanks to exoskeletons ...
Are smartphones destroying an entire generation? Never before has a technology invaded our lives so fast and so completely. For parents, the smartphone has become the enemy. Teens are especially hard ...
Why has the number of caesareans exploded in the past ten years? Is medical necessity always at the origin of the surgeon's decision to operate? Today, the growing number of health conditions related ...
Under the influence of global warming, mountains in the Alps are breaking up, threatening villages located in red zones. The people in charge of mountain security are voicing concerns and imagining ...
Sentimental scams leave in their wake men and women both ruined and sentimentally broken. Bernard dreamed of a tender retirement alongside a young Frenchwoman. Julie thought she had found love with ...
The birds are disappearing fast from our fields and meadows. Slowly, silently but surely. Nearly 40% of the species in agricultural areas are in sharp decline in Switzerland. Experts are deeply ...
Thousands of babies were kidnapped or sold in Sri Lanka in the 1980s. The scandal affected Switzerland and involved private intermediaries, who were little concerned about the origin of the adopted ...
Louis, Jeanne and Agnès are 102, 104 and 105 years old. How did they live so long and stay healthy and young at heart? Our journalists travelled to the province of Ogliastra, Sardinia, one of the ...
Who are the dictators spending surreal amounts of money in Switzerland's most opulent hotels while their people live in abject poverty? For decades, their regular presence has been a mainstay of ...
Why do so many migrants come on European soil from Eritrea? This exceptional report, shot unescorted in a country considered by many NGOs as one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world, ...
Gestational surrogacy allows LGBT couples to become parents. Only a few couples are willing to set out and go on the adventure. The phenomenon is statistically marginal. It remains nonetheless ...
Can you imagine that a thief, a rapist or any other criminal could be arrested today even before he commits his crime? This sci-fi scenario is already partly an established reality in Los Angeles, ...
This report investigates the third life of our used cars in Africa: the impossible marriage alliance between business, recycling and environment. With the announced death of diesel, the pressure on ...
Over 200 million women are living with the consequences of female genital cutting, a horrific practice that is not limited to remote villages in distant places. As European countries institute ...
Thanks to social egg freezing, or oocyte cryopreservation, women can now delay motherhood. I'll have a baby if, with whom and when I want to! could become the rallying call of an entire generation ...
While tobacco prevention has reduced the number of smokers, youth continue heavily to fall into tobacco addiction. The industry is thus doing all it can to seduce this strategic age group. ...
Are we putting our health at risk by constantly bathing in the electromagnetic radiation of relay antennas, smartphones, wifi and connected objects? The medical and scientific communities is deeply ...
How to take a fresh take on French suburbs? Are they really the no-go zones that some politicians thrive on? Last October, an attack of unprecedented brutality put France in turmoil: about fifteen ...
A neo-Nazi storm is gathering over Europe. Seizing on the migrant crisis to come outi nto the open, right-wing, sometimes violent extremists are very active in Switzerland.In Germany, their many ...
