Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have introduced the world's highest minimum wage, early results from a referendum indicate.

No smoking, no perfume and no mobile phone use - the list of rules at one newly built block of flats in Zurich is so long, it is a wonder anyone chooses to live there.

An 89-year-old woman killed herself at an assisted suicide clinic because she had become fed up with the modern world of emails, TVs, and supermarket-ready meals.

A Kiwi wingsuit pilot has died after crashing into a field following a jump from a helicopter over Switzerland's Luetschental Valley.

The impact of tragedy is made real to Rosemarie North at Geneva's Red Cross museum.

Jamie Morton stops by the Swiss lakeside and its romantic grand hotel.

The world's richest 85 people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion, according to Oxfam - and it's issued a warning that gap could trigger mass social unrest.

Jamie Morton travels aboard the world's slowest - and arguably most beautiful - express train.

Swiss voters soundly rejected a proposal to limit the pay of companies' highest-paid managers to 12 times that of their lowest-paid workers.

For walkers, Geneva reveals itself as anything but conventional, says Simon Calder.

Just when you are convinced that men with too much time on their hands have already discovered the most insane ways to risk their lives, you stumble across evidence to the contrary in the Swiss Alps.

A baby survived a 30m fall from a cable car - which killed her parents - by landing in a tree.

At least 44 people were injured, four of them seriously, in a head-on collision of two trains in western Switzerland.

Zurich is not only the city of banks, but also of public baths - or as the Swiss would say "Badis."

Aerial trams and cable cars take visitors up mountains, over rivers and above cities, and sometimes these cable cars are the destination themselves.

Wandering is a great way to orient yourself through the old medieval city in Zurich, where many buildings date back more than 1500 years.

Julia Shallcrass discovers Topdeck bus tours provide the swiftest way to see Europe and make new friends.

From his office in the alpine ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, meteorologist Gilles Brunot is looking out at snow-capped peaks washed with spring sunshine, resplendent under a pale blue sky.

Veti-Gel is a liquid that can not only immediately stop bleeding but also initiate healing.

In Wengen, a ski resort perched high in the centre of Switzerland, AC/DC has infiltrated.

While leaf-peeping in the Upper Engadine valley, Kate Simon welcomes the changing of the seasons.

Sports writer Dan Coyle tells Phil Taylor about his long battle to cut through the PR myths surrounding Lance Armstrong and organised doping in cycling.

Anne D'Innocenzio discovers a love for river cruising on an eight-day trip on the Rhine, starting in Basel, Switzerland and ending in Amsterdam.

Simon Winter finds you don't have to spend a fortune to take in the majesty of Switzerland's mountains.