The Swiss parliament has elected two new members of the government, social democrat Élisabeth Baume-Schneider and nationalist-conservative Albert Rösti, following the resignation of two members of the seven-headed Swiss Federal Council

90 goods trains a day will be able to travel through the Gotthard Base Tunnel from today, but repair work following a freight train derailment on August 10 will take months, the federal railways says, confirming support from neighboring Italy

Donato Kofel, an environmental engineer at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, said that through work on positive and negative effects of trees on air quality, he noticed that some plants are not only positive

The birth rate in the country reached an all-time low of 1,39 children per woman last year, below the European average and down 8,5% from the previous year, latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office show

Beginning today thru 12 August 2023, 76th edition of Locarno Film Festival will be Marco Solari's last as president, with 214 films on the programme, including 110 world premieres and six international premieres