The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024. Extending some 1,200 km, the Alps occupy an area of about 200,000 ...

The second UNESCO gem also in Switzerland are the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, offering spectacular alpine views, with the mountain’s grandeur mentioned by over 100 visitors. The site provides ...

French investigators believe the shooter behind the 2012 Alps murders is an ex-Swiss special forces agent who “lost the plot” after undergoing training in the use of “high-precision ...

Every year, in the small alpine village of Davos, Switzerland, the most influential people in the world travel to the most elevated town in Europe to take part in a week of closed-door meetings ...

A new twist has emerged in the murder of a British family who were brutally gunned down and executed in the Alps 12 years ago ... be a semi-automatic pistol of Swiss origin, a Luger PO6/29.

The 62-year-old Centre Party politician from canton Valais has been part of the Swiss government since 2019, taking over from Doris Leuthard. The announcement overshadowed the main topic of the ...

The Swiss inspection firm SGS has confirmed talks with the French company Bureau Veritas about a possible merger. This follows a Bloomberg report stating that the two firms are in advanced talks.

Switzerland will join the EU's military mobility project, which aims to ensure the rapid and smooth movement of military staff, equipment, and assets, after member states agreed on Monday evening ...

A British woman has died after she crashed into a man who was stationary on a ski slope. The 65-year-old woman is believed to have skied into the man, 35, at Les Arcs resort in the French Alps at ...

For many years that followed, the Rhone glacier blanketed the Swiss mountains in the cloak of white ice. The glacier tipped in the Alps of south-central Switzerland spilling its meltwater in Lake ...

The Princess of Wales recently travelled to the Alps on a family ski trip, according to The Mail on Sunday. Princess Kate, 43, was reportedly joined by her husband Prince William, 42, and their ...