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Get the latest news, updates and features about Switzerland, a country in Central Europe. Switzerland is known for cities including Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne, its stunning lakes, and the Swiss Alps mountains including the Matterhorn. Switzerland is the host country for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.

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The village sits under a mountain where two million cubic metres of rock is coming loose

Tiny village on brink of being completely wiped out by collapsing mountain

Channel: World World May 17, 2023 By Ben Ashton

Previously unknown Nazi monument uncovered in Swiss cemetery

Channel: UK UK April 3, 2023 By Will Neal
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, presents a medal to Russian cellist Sergei Roldugin, during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Four former bankers with the Swiss affiliate of a key Russian bank were found guilty Thursday, March 30, 2023, of failing to properly check accounts opened in the name of Roldugin, the Russian cellist with longtime ties to President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool, File)

Four bankers convicted after helping Putin's friend set up Swiss bank accounts

Channel: World World March 30, 2023 By Jordan King
A picture taken on March 6, 2023, shows packagings of Toblerone chocolate bars owned by US firm Mondelez with a representation of the Matterhorn mountain (back) and of a generic mountain (front) in Geneva. - Toblerone is to remove the Swiss iconic Matterhorn peak from its packaging when some of the chocolate's production is moved from Switzerland to Slovakia and replaced by a more generic mountain under strict "Swissness" rules. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

First Toblerone bars without the Matterhorn logo go on sale

Channel: World World March 17, 2023 By Tom Sanders
You could soon be able to go direct from London to Switzerland by train

Direct train from London to Basel could be a step closer to reality

Channel: UK UK March 9, 2023 By Charlotte Manning
BGUK_2585559 - Bern, SWITZERLAND - Toblerone without the Matterhorn. This is due to the fact that part of the production line has been moved abroad. In July 2023, Switzerland's most famous mountain will no longer be able to adorn the packaging of the iconic chocolate bar. It will disappear from the packaging, as the small triangular bar will no longer be produced exclusively in Switzerland. Pictured: Toblerone BACKGRID UK 4 MARCH 2023 UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com *UK Clients - Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*

Toblerone to be redesigned and things may never be the same again

Channel: World World March 6, 2023 By Sian Elvin
Boris Johnson's ancestor found

Mummified ancestor of Boris Johnson did not die of syphilis, reveal new scans

Channel: Tech Tech February 24, 2023 By Anugraha Sundaravelu
A police robot stands next to a suspicious car in front of the Swiss Parliament, the Bundeshaus in Bern, during the large-scale operation of the Bern police, where several buildings were evacuated and the Bundesplatz and some streets around were widely cordoned off, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. A man wearing a bulletproof vest and weapon holster, who allegedly parked the car in the middle of the Bundesplatz near one of its entrances, was found to explosives and arrested. (Manuel Lopez/Keystone via AP)

Man with explosives arrested outside Swiss parliament

Channel: World World February 14, 2023 By Gergana Krasteva
Max and Brian Sacks

My wife and son were given terminal diagnoses - she chose assisted dying but he didn't

Channel: Health Health October 16, 2024 By Brian Sacks
ST.ANTON, AUSTRIA - JANUARY 8: City view with tourists, skier, shopping area on January 8, 2014 in St.Anton, Tyrol, Austria. (Photo by EyesWideOpen/Getty Images)

Which ski resorts are going to get snow over the next 10 days

Channel: UK UK January 5, 2023 By Kirsten Robertson
Foggy glasses

Scientists find a solution for the annoying problem of foggy glasses

Channel: Tech Tech December 16, 2022 By Anugraha Sundaravelu

Get some cold comfort with the coolest ice hotel breaks - from Canada to Lapland

Channel: Travel Travel December 11, 2022 By James Litston
Korea Republic v Portugal: Group H - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Cristiano Ronaldo dropped to the bench for Portugal's World Cup clash against Switzerland

Channel: Football Football December 6, 2022 By Tony Mogan
Anna Florence Reed killed in 'sex game gone wrong' by her boyfriend. pictured with her boyfriend Marc Dirtywhite aka Marc Schatzle in Locarno soon before her death Warning Taken from open Facebook No Permission to use!

Bouncer who appealed after murdering heiress girlfriend has 18-year sentence increased

Channel: UK UK December 1, 2022 By Brooke Davies

Two children among six tourists feared dead after plane crashes off Costa Rica

Channel: World World October 25, 2022 By Josh Milton

Forget winter, this Swiss ski resort has exhilarating activities all year round

Channel: Travel Travel September 5, 2022 By Jenny Forsyth
Luqa, Malta - July 9, 2021: Air France Airbus A320-214 [F-HEPJ] landing runway 31 in the afternoon.

Pilots suspended after getting into fist fight in the cockpit mid-flight

Channel: World World August 29, 2022 By Jasper King

Lost plane wreck and bodies emerge after glacier melts and reveals its secrets

Channel: World World August 10, 2022 By Harrison Jones

Plumber 'stabbed Deliveroo driver through heart before fleeing on brother's passport'

Channel: UK UK August 10, 2022 By Gergana Krasteva

These are the best cities to live in the world (no, the UK doesn't make the cut)

Channel: Travel Travel August 3, 2022 By Faima Bakar