A contentious Swiss prohibition on facial coverings in public spaces widely known as the "burqa ban" will take effect on January 1, the government says.

Basel has a rich medieval ancestry and cultural savoir vivre. The late morning sun filtered through the leaves of a row of linden trees on the right bank of the river Rhine in Basel, making a ...

JC Flowers has put on block a total of 15,096 bad loans under the Swiss challenge auction | Photo Credit: cueapi JC Flowers Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC), acting as the trustee for JCF YES ...

As much as they might protest it, most people aren’t above marveling at a famously beautiful painting. That’s why thousands of tourists form sweaty crowds at New York’s Museum of Modern Art ...

The infectious disease tuberculosis has been detected in two deer hunted in Montafon near the Swiss-Austrian border. In order to prevent transmission to canton Graubünden, a third of all dead ...

The former leader of the Identitarian movement was stopped by the police as he attempted to cross the border.

Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has said the situation with stranded migrants on the Swiss border “should not be happening in Europe” and is difficult to bear. Several hundred ...