Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...

"This region is used to risks that come simply from the fact that what surrounds those villages are really high mountains," ...

Women are wearing local fabrics in western designs; men are wearing western fabrics in local designs. This reflects the ...

Annual inflation was 0.0% last month, down from 0.3% in March, Switzerland’s Federal Statistics Office said Monday, with increasing clothes, food and air-transport prices moderated by falling ...

Fighters from the Ezz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, control the crowd during the hand over of the Israeli and Thai hostages to the Red Cross teams, as part of the latest ...

Members of Switzerland's silver medal-winning under-23 fencing team turned their backs to the Israeli gold medalists during the medal ceremony while Israel's national anthem played. Israeli ...

Switzerland is known for its luxury watches, decadent chocolate, scenic Alpine villages, and of course, its banks. But here’s the twist: Switzerland is a landlocked country with no oil, no ...

SPAR has begun accepting Bitcoin payments at its Zug, Switzerland location, marking another milestone in Switzerland’s progressive approach to bitcoin adoption. The implementation uses the Lightning ...

A Spar supermarket in Zug, Switzerland, has implemented Bitcoin (BTC) payments via the Lightning Network. The store’s Bitcoin payments went live on BTC Map, a community-driven project ...

In addition to the textiles harvested, some 36,700 tonnes of clothes and shoes, about 4.1 kg per person, end in household waste and are burned. Only 2% of the articles collected in Switzerland are ...