Former pupil at British school confirmed as one of the victims of the Swiss ski resort fire - Charlotte Niddam, believed to be 15, was among the last 16 victims to have been identified by police

GENEVA (AP) — Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the environment who was the first woman elected to Switzerland's seven-member executive branch, has died. She was 86. Kopp died April 7 in the town of Zumikon, near Zurich, from complications ...

SION, Switzerland, July 4 (Reuters) - On the terrace of a restaurant in the Swiss city of Sion sits a group of pioneers of women's football in Switzerland who have seen the beautiful game change beyond recognition. For ⁠72-year-old Madeleine Boll, seeing ...

Belinda Bencic became the first Swiss woman to win an Olympic gold medal in tennis, and the first Swiss tennis player to medal since Roger Federer.

Several people were detained in northern Switzerland where a 64-year-old woman from the U.S. ended her life in a suicide pod that replaces oxygen with nitrogen gas. Police said the unidentified woman’s death occurred Monday in a forest hut using a newly ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday in favor of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heat waves. The European court’s decision ...

Advocacy groups behind a "suicide capsule" announced Sunday they have suspended applications to use the device until authorities in Switzerland complete a criminal investigation into a woman's voluntary death from its first use. The president of ...

BERN, SwitzerlandBERN, Switzerland — Storied coach Pia Sundhage was hired Tuesday to lead the Switzerland women’s soccer team that is hosting the 2025 European Championship. Sundhage was a standout forward playing for Sweden and then a two-time Olympic ...

Swiss authorities said the death toll remained at 40 and there were 119 injured, many of them in a critical condition. They believe the fire was "caused by sparklers attached to champagne bottles that came too close to the ceiling".

Switzerland's federal criminal court on Monday convicted a Swiss-Italian woman of attempted murder and ties to the banned radical group Islamic State over the stabbing of two women in a department store. She was handed a nine-year prison sentence.

GENEVAGENEVA — Switzerland’s federal criminal court on Monday convicted a Swiss-Italian woman of attempted murder and ties to the banned radical group Islamic State over the stabbing of two women in a department store. She was handed a nine-year prison ...