The cuckoo clock chimes for the Swiss franc
If it sounds like a multiplayer 3D chess game, then that’s what it really is. The technical term for it is currency war.
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Shock statistics suggest the gap between rich and poor is becoming ever more extreme. But what does the evidence really show?
David Cameron says “nothing is more important than a Britain with full employment”. What does he mean and how achievable are his ambitions?
If it sounds like a multiplayer 3D chess game, then that’s what it really is. The technical term for it is currency war.
In what is being described as the worst start to the Alpine ski season in recent memory, a lack of snow has affected skiing in France, Switzerland and Austria.
Some soldiers have criticised moves to allow women into close combat roles in the British Army. But women are already on the front line around the world.
Wildlife photographer Lorenzo Vinciguerra flees his Abu Sayyaf captors after killing a guard with a machete.
Kilian Jornet was born to be in the mountains. Heralded as the world’s best at his extreme calling, next week he flies to the Andes to try and set the speed record for scaling Aconcagua.
Fifa has lodged a criminal complaint against unnamed individuals in connection with the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. But who does it want charged?
Italy, Switzerland and southern parts of France have had copious amounts of rain during the last month, leading to a series of flash floods and mudslides that have claimed lives.
England’s match tonight against San Marino – arguably Europe’s weakest football side – epitomises the occasionally incomprehensible aspects of watching football, says John Anderson.
More than 2,000 Syrian Kurds are evacuating the Kurdish town of Kobani, near the border between Syria and Turkey, as Islamic State militants advance towards the city centre.
Suicide tourism is on the rise, say experts, with the number of people travelling to Switzerland for assisted dying at places like Dignitas doubling in four years.
Eleven people are injured, five seriously, as several carriages of a Swiss train are derailed after hitting a mudslide on the track.
There has been no fury and no barracking – but in the House of Lords ferocity belies what is being said. The debate? The right to die.
From spray foam to odd boots, football commentator and writer John Anderson picks his World Cup highlights and pet hates. Do you agree?