Swiss-China trade deal on horizon

An expert report has pinned the blame on a Belgian bus driver for a crash in a Swiss alpine tunnel in March last year which left 22 children and six adults dead. The report, made public by the prosecutor's office in the Swiss canton of Valais, ...

The ski set will have all eyes on Andermatt in the Swiss Alps come December 6 for the opening of the uber-smart Chedi Andermatt Hotel. The hotel is expected to have 50 rooms and 119 apartments, and will include two restaurants, indoor and outdoor ...

The heavy snow at the Swiss cliff- top village of Murren was just what I needed. My Alpine agenda included snowboarding, sledding and leaping from a cliff. A friend and I were also testing some new optical gear to record our adventures. We started ...

Climate change is dramatically altering the Swiss Alps, where hundreds of bodies of water are being created by melting glaciers. Though the lakes can attract tourists and even generate electricity, local residents also fear catastrophic tidal waves.

Thanks to a rare bacteria that grows only on rocks in the Swiss Alps, researchers at The Univ. of Texas at Austin and the Pasteur Institute have been the first to identify how alcohol might affect key brain proteins. It's a major step on the road to ...

Although the Alpine country has been cracking down on undeclared funds, it has so far refused to consider allowing the automatic exchange of banking information

Swiss newspapers Tages-Anzeiger and Neue Zuercher Zeitung earlier reported the tiny alpine principality had been given until Friday to hand over "statistical" data on American clients of Swiss banks with links in Liechtenstein. Katja Gey, head of ...

The Swiss Alpine Club says the number of deaths in the mountains of the Swiss Alps and the Jura fell by a third in 2012 from the previous year due to often-poor weather that kept people away. The mountaineering organization said 95 people died.

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