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Top hotels face winter boom but summer gloom
Switzerland's most prestigious hotels are facing a rough ride from the economic crisis with the strong franc and declining corporate trade expected to dent profits.
Saint keeps watch as miners keep tunnelling
Switzerland is riddled with tunnels like a cheese. These tunnels are vital for the country's development but building them is expensive and dangerous even today.
Having fun the old way
The games we play reflect the society we live in. That's the idea behind an exhibition currently to be seen at the Swiss Museum of Games near Vevey.
"I need to get my energy out somehow!"
Swiss piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu, who makes his Royal Festival Hall debut in London on Tuesday, tells swissinfo about young fans, musical heroes – and football.
Snowstorms leave some ski areas scrambling
A series of snowstorms crashed into Switzerland over the weekend, spilling enough flakes to force some ski areas into digging themselves out for opening day.
Unearthing the secrets of Lunnern's treasure
More than 1,700 years ago a wealthy family from Lunnern, in what is now Switzerland, hid their gold jewellery to protect it from raiders threatening the Roman Empire.
Barceló unveils UN "Sistine Chapel" in Geneva
The Spanish abstract artist Miquel Barceló has unveiled his spectacular new artwork at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva.
Shiva's dance of life and death
Shiva is among the most important Hindu gods. At once terrible and benevolent, he is never more powerful than when he is dancing.
A teetotaller transforms Swiss tourism
Visitors to Switzerland notched 37 million overnight stays in the past year, but the roots of mass tourism go back 200 years to the birth of an English teetotaller.
Cataloguing the Middle Ages in cyberspace
The books of secret codes and hand-penned bibles inside Switzerland's oldest library are usually the preserve of the most serious scholars.

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