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Weather ballon climbs to 5,300 metres before temperature falls to 0C amid late summer heatwaveA Swiss weather balloon had to climb to an unprecedented 5,300 metres (17,400ft) before the temperature fell to 0C (32F), meteorologists have said, as a late …
Detective from force’s specialist crime unit says cross-border operation was the result of four years’ workThree men have been convicted after a £2m vase stolen from a museum was recovered in a police sting operation.The Chinese Ming dynasty vase was s…
The International Chess Federation, or FIDE, has updated its policy on transgender players, effectively banning trans competitors from participating in official women’s tournaments. The world governing body for chess said its member federations have r…
Sixteen freight carriages run off rails, tearing up eight kilometres of train track and leaving engineering marvel inaugurated in 2016 unable to take passengersTrain passengers between north and southernmost Switzerland will have to skip the world’s lo…
Co-author of Sister Sledge song ‘about inclusion and diversity’ condemns move by rightwing SVPThe songwriter and musician Nile Rodgers has asked Switzerland’s rightwing populist Swiss People’s party (SVP) to cease and desist from using a “soundalike” v…
Lucky was left in kennels in Bern but escaped and made its way to Lake Geneva before being found and traced to ownersAn escaped border terrier named Lucky made an epic 160-kilometre journey across Switzerland on the eve of the country’s national holida…
Video has been released in appeal to find Aidan Roche, last in contact on 22 June from the EigerThe family of a British hiker last seen on a Swiss mountain six weeks ago said they were hoping for a “crazy survival story” as they released the last video…
The hiker’s body was discovered on a thawing portion of the Theodul Glacier near the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps.
Police confirm remains discovered on melting glacier in Swiss mountains are those of German climber The remains of a German mountain climber who disappeared while crossing a glacier near the Matterhorn mountain nearly 40 years ago have been discovered …
Police officer and helicopter pilot struck on the way to help victims of earlier blast in Fribourg canton of SwitzerlandLightning never strikes twice, until it does: a police officer and helicopter pilot rushing to help two people injured in a lightnin…