THE ALARM SOUNDED JUST AFTER midnight on Wednesday. Fire engines raced, sirens blaring, from their regional headquarters in Fribourg, Switzerland, climbing the winding roads to the tiny village, of ...

The former conductor, Michel Tabachnik, is being tried for criminal association in connection with the deaths of 16 people in the Vercors region, near Grenoble, in December 1995. He is accused of ...

THE horrific discovery of 48 corpses in farm buildings in the remote village of Cheiry and two burned chalets in the town of Salvan, on 5 October 1994, sent shockwaves through Switzerland. The victims ...

The joint Italian-Polish archaeological mission, working at the temple of King Niuserre in Abu Ghorab, north of Abu Sir, discovered the remains of a mud-brick building below the temple. Preliminary ...