Italy has appointed a new ambassador to Switzerland. Luca Sabbatucci, currently ambassador to international organisations in Paris, succeeds Gian Lorenzo Cornado, who has retired. In a statement released today, parliamentarian Simone Billi, represent...

After 33 days at sea, four Swiss rowers are back on solid ground having become the first people to row across the Arctic region unassisted. During their mission, the Arctic Row team braved adverse weather conditions and set new landmarks in the proce...

A wallaby has been captured in central Switzerland and returned to its owner after hopping away from a farm. The newspaper Blick published a short video of the marsupial (originally thought to be a kangaroo) near the edge of a woodland near a youth c...

Summer skiing in the Swiss Saas-Fee resort is to be suspended from next week following a similar decision in Zermatt. At the end of July, canton Valais resport Zermatt suspended operations due to melting glaciers. + Global consequences of a glacier-f...

The 22 members of the Swiss armed forces, who had been fighting the forest fires in Corsica using three Super Puma helicopters, returned to Switzerland on Friday. Since July 28, they had dropped 452 tonnes of water to extinguish the fires. + How to p...