Connected by a scene-stealing Swiss rail journey and close enough to be combined in a week's skiing, these resorts offer an embarrassment of activities and diversions.

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

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.

Old name brought back for new model.

Jaguar will take the covers off a new sedan at the Geneva motor show next week.