Switzerland

Switzerland

Helicopters airlift people from Swiss ski resort cut off by snow

Tourists wishing to leave Zermatt have been airlifted out after heavy snow cut off the village, leaving up to 13,000 tourists stranded.

09/01/2018

Switzerland

Wind blows a train carriage off the rails in Switzerland

Eight people injured after wind blows a train carriage off the rails in Switzerland. The accident happened in the central region near Lenk. All of the injured people were taken to hospital

04/01/2018

Living

Underwater with Blancpain

From the Fifty Fathoms to marine adventure photography and real 'Ocean Commitment'.

29/12/2017

Living

The best watches of 2017

From the unique to the extreme, and a few dotted in-between, here are the best pieces of 2017.

19/12/2017

Switzerland

The world's steepest funicular railway opens in Switzerland

The futuristic Stoos Bahn climbs a 110% gradient between Schywz to the mountain village of Stoos in central Switzerland.

18/12/2017

Switzerland

World’s ‘steepest funicular line’ set to open in Switzerland

The line up to the alpine resort of Stoos has gradients as steep as 110 percent.

14/12/2017

Switzerland

Genocide against Rohingya cannot be ruled out, says UN rights chief

Comments came from the UN Commissioner for Human Rights at a special session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva

05/12/2017

Switzerland

Swiss village votes in favour of paying new residents to live there

Albinen estimates that in the next five years, five to 10 families will benefit from the scheme

30/11/2017

Living

Inside the Audemars Piguet workshop

30/11/2017

Switzerland

The Swiss village that will pay you 60,000 euros to live there

Albinen may offer prospective residents a bounty if they settle

23/11/2017

Sport

Carter appeals Olympic disqualification

The Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter who was retroactively found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has attended his appeal hearing

15/11/2017

Living

Chopard wins the 'Aiguille d'Or' Grand Prix of watchmaking

09/11/2017

Business Series

Follow live, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) 2017

The Watchmaking World’s "Oscars ceremony" will be announced on November 8th at the Théâtre du Léman in Geneva.

08/11/2017

Switzerland

The Great Escape: Seven-year-old runaway boards plane at Geneva airport before being spotted by police

The seven-year-old girl was able to avoid all security checks from the train to the plane.

02/11/2017

Cult

Hidden treasures of Nazi art dealer go on display

An art stash hoarded by the son of a Nazi art collector has finally gone on public display.

02/11/2017

Switzerland

No insults on syllabus as Swiss school starts Klingon classes

Fans have developed the fictional 'Star Trek' language since the 1960s into a coherent syntax-based means of communication between Klingon-speakers.

30/10/2017

Sport

PSG boss questioned over bribery claims by Swiss prosecutors

Paris Saint Germain chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi was interrogated for hours by Swiss prosectors investigating the sale of World Cup media rights

25/10/2017

Switzerland

Public invited to show off the power of their minds

An experiment in Lausanne, Switzerland, is inviting the public to hook themsleves up to a brain interface and try and move machinery with the power of thought alone.

24/10/2017

Eco-Innovation

Android in the Alps

Exploring Austria with the new Porsche Design Huawei 10 Mate

23/10/2017

Switzerland

Teenager arrested in Swiss axe attack

The attack, believed to have been carried out by a 17-year-old Latvian national, left several wounded in the small town of Flums, in north-eastern Switzerland

23/10/2017

World

"Nuclear weapons don't make us safe" - ICAN

Beatrice Fihn from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons calls on all nuclear states to disarm.

18/10/2017

Switzerland

Azerbaijan and Armenia meet over disputed territory

The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have met in Geneva for the first time since June 2016 amid tension over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh

16/10/2017

Switzerland

More than a million francs worth of gold lost in Swiss sewers every year

More than a million Swiss francs worth of gold is flushed down every year found a new study.

13/10/2017

Switzerland

Bad news for bees

Three-quarters of the honey produced around the world contains nerve agent pesticides that can harm bees and pose a potential health hazard to humans.

06/10/2017

Switzerland

Global warming 'threatens Swiss Alps'

Swiss Alps under pressure as scientists stress negative effects of global warming.

05/10/2017

Cinema

Boston Marathon attack movie 'Stronger' warmly received

Boston Marathon attack movie 'Stronger' warmly received by critics

04/10/2017