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Finma watchdog says bank failed to carry out adequate checks of two high-risk business relationships

Beny Steinmetz’s company obtained iron ore deposits worth billions thanks to bribes paid to the wife of a West African president.

Beny Steinmetz likes to do things his own way.

Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world’s biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland.

An American tourist enjoyed a short vacation in Switzerland – only to go home to a shocking six-figure cell phone bill.

The cross-country skiers - three brothers, their cousin and uncle - reportedly fell asleep together after getting stranded on the Tete Blanche mountain in the Swiss Alps

The group of six skiers, who ranged in age from 21 to 58, had left Zermatt, Switzerland on Saturday morning with the goal of reaching the town of Arolla, near the Matterhorn mountain

Police in Switzerland have ramped up their search to locate one a skier after five people from the same party were found dead in the Swiss Alps on the weekend after a brutal storm

Ashwath Kaushik became the youngest player ever to beat a chess grandmaster in a classical tournament game, beating Jacek Stopa, 37, in the fourth round the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland

A plan to recover an iconic steam ship that has been compared to one of the most famous cruise liners ever from an Alpine lake has been given the go-ahead

Lauterbrunnen, located in the Jungfrau region of Switzerland, inspired J.R.R Tolkien during a hiking trip when he was just 19-years-old to such an extent that he based the Elven land of Rivendell on it

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of cocaine use in Europe, according to tests, but now one city's parliament is proposing to legalise the drug

Police say the unidentified man is still at large after his rampage in Sion, the capital of the canton of Valais, a town of about 35,000 people

Detour Discotheque is swapping Iceland the Isle of Coll in the Inner Hebrides for a Swiss mountain, with guests staying down the valley in the traditional Alpine villages of Lauterbrunnen and Mürren

Jonathan Goldstein, an award-winning music producer, was piloting the single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee Arrow when it hit the Hübschhorn mountain in Switzerland

Kelly Louise Smith-May is seeking £10,000 to travel to an assisted dying facility in Switzerland 'to end her suffering' with the blessing of her family after battling Long Covid since December 2021

A fellow hiker, who met Aidan Roche on the day he vanished, has come forward to say what he was wearing and that he was in good spirits as his loved ones continue the search for him

Friends and family of Aidan Roche are desperately hoping for more clues as the Swiss police and mountain rescue service have ceased their efforts after "exhausting every option" with no new evidence

Yorkshireman Aidan Roche, 29, was last seen on 22 June on the Eiger Trail in the Grindelwald area of the Bernese Alps, just two days before he was due to come home

Yorkshireman Aidan Roche, 29, was last heard from on June 22 while in the Grindelwald area of Switzerland on the twelfth day of a two-week trip

In a matter of seconds, the skies over La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland turned black and a tornado tore through, uprooting trees, sending debris flying and destroying entire neighbourhoods with its 135mph gusts

Protests erupted in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Belgian capital of Brussels over the weekend amidst growing unrest over the killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk