A base jumper had a fatal accident on Sunday afternoon during a jump in Gimmelwald in the municipality of Lauterbrunnen. The emergency services found the man lifeless below the jump site, as reported by the Bern cantonal police on Tuesday. +Get the m...

Exercise is contagious - at least in the family. A Swiss study published on Tuesday shows that if parents are physically active, their children also tend to be more active. The researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TP...

Following accusations of propaganda, Swiss television programming operators Swisscom and Sunrise have withdrawn the Qatari channel Al Jazeera Arabic from their offer. A spokesperson told news agency Keystone-SDA that Al Jazeera Arabic will no longer ...

The pollution of Swiss waters with a 'forever chemical' has increased massively over the last 25 years. A new study shows that concentrations of trifluoroacetate (TFA) have increased four- to six-fold since the mid-1990s. Researchers at the Swiss Fed...

The last inspection of the fire-ravaged Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana took place in 2019. The ski resort's town council says it bitterly regrets this, citing a failure to carry out periodic inspections over the period 2020-2025. The bar's fir...