41.  Swiss banking group Credit Suisse said Friday it has chosen chief executive Lukas Muehlemann as its new chairman.

42.  Swiss pro-abortion groups say most terminations are carried out between the sixth and tenth week of pregnancy.

43.  The newspaper SonntagsBlick printed extracts of letters and telephone calls received by Swiss Jewish groups in recent days.

44.  The IOC also turned down a third bid from the Swiss group CWL, headed by Cesar Luthy.

45.  The Swiss financial group has been accused of dubious financial transactions intended to conceal latent losses at Japanese companies.

46.  Though the heavily-indebted Swiss group refused to bail out the French airlines, it remains exposed to hefty costs of potential AOM and Air Liberte bankruptcy proceedings.

47.  U.S. investment firm Texas Pacific is to buy the international smart card and pay phone operations of Swiss group Electrowatt, a statement from Electrowatt said Wednesday.

48.  UPDATES throughout with Swiss group denying allegations,

49.  Von Roll AG, a Swiss industrial group, announced Tuesday that it has purchased Insulations Materials Inc., an American electrical insulation manufacturer.

50.  Five executives of bankrupt Swiss group Sasea were sentenced here to a six months suspended prison sentence for financial mismanagement, magistrate Laurent Kasper-Ansermet said Wednesday.