One in five Swiss employers found to underpay workers; government wants to simplify divorce proceedings for children's sake; and other news in our Tuesday roundup.

The question of whether assisted dying is a treatment is of legal, philosophical, and clinical importance, write Gareth S Owen , Alex Ruck Keene , and Katherine Sleeman Assisted dying is back in UK ...

Around 1,000 people demonstrated in Lausanne on Saturday afternoon, two weeks after the death of a Nigerian man in police ...

Castles in our minds are often associated with fairy tales, with the romantic love of princesses and princes. In the world, ...

She spoke of "a racist police institution" and declared that "history is repeating itself", as four other black men had died as a result of police action in the canton of Vaud in recent years. It was ...

According to the Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), the central Swiss canton of Lucerne now belongs to the highest debtor category.

The cantonal parliament of Vaud has approved a loan of CHF9.5 million ($11.5 million) for Château de Chillon, the ...

On May 28 a huge chunk of a glacier in the southern Swiss Alps collapsed, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most ...

André Hoffmann, the vice chairman and major shareholder of pharmaceutical giant Roche, sees protecting nature as the only ...

In May 2025, the Swiss canton of Geneva paid 396 million francs to the Haute-Savoie and Ain regions of neighbouring France — ...

Measles is making a global comeback. In Switzerland, a crisis is unlikely – but authorities warn a strong vaccination rate ...

Come spring and it is time for sunny days, warmer temperatures, vibrant colours and of course floral blooms. Tulips, ...