The Ministry for Culture and Heritage hasn't considered prosecuting Sir Ed's widow over the overseas auction of one of his watches.

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is hopeful an historic Rolex owned by Ed Hillary will be returned to NZ after being withdrawn from auction.

Sir Edmund Hillary's widow is selling the watch her late husband was given after climbing Mt Everest in 1953.

Meandering goats, cow bells and jaw-droppingly beautiful views bemuse Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson in the Swiss Alps.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has paid tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland, who died in Switzerland on Sunday.

Greg Henderson might not be flying British Airways again after his world road championships preprations were stalled by a lost bike.

Conquering five cities in three countries over six days with nary a sword, stallion nor aircraft in sight can take it out of a girl.

Working NZ families pay 28 per cent of their net income on childcare, according to an OECD study. Dita De Boni examines the costs.

Forget the Large Hadron Collider, Cern's scientists have their hearts set on a new, $9.48 billion, 31km Linear Collider.

Swiss citizen Johann Hari wonders how Polanski, who boasted about his crime from exile, was allowed to get away with it.

The man claimed his wife's death was a tragic accident - he had reversed once and hadn't seen what was behind him.

The singer's wife allegedly discovered he had been having an affair with a backing dancer after finding text messages on a secret phone.

The filmmaker said yesterday that the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him "on a platter to the media".

Businessman Eric Watson has had eight large screws inserted in his back as he recovers from a skiing accident.

Eric Watson is "up and about" in a Swiss private hospital after fracturing his back in a skiing accident.

Switzerland's laid-back capital proves the ideal place for flustered Euro-tourists to get their breath back, writes Graham Reid.