Anthony Lambert takes a trip on a lovingly-restored cogwheel steam locomotive route through the Swiss Alps.

Two of the Swiss resorts that invented winter sporting pastimes are still the best, writes Leslie Woit.

Leukerbad lies in a natural amphitheatre, cocooned on three sides by vast rock walls.

Scaling the Matterhorn is something best done while you're young, says Alpine guide Rudi Steindl.

Executives in Zurich, Geneva and Sydney are the best paid in the world after taxes, according to a survey by Swiss bank UBS - but Auckland workers are not flourishing to the same extent.

Brooke Fraser hochster Neu-Einstieg in die Charts. That's right, the lovely Kiwi songstress "is the highest new entry in the German charts" and her third album, Flags, has sent the European world a-Twitter.

British anti-euthanasia campaigners accused Sir Terry Pratchett and the BBC of "cheerleading" for a change in legislation.

CERN's director general believes that if the Higgs boson exists, the Large Hadron Collider will prove it by the end of 2012.

Megan Singleton discovers beautiful cities in a whistlestop train journey.