Switzerland won its first medal at the ice hockey world championships in 60 years, capturing the silver medal after losing to hosts Sweden 5-1 in the final in Stockholm on Sunday.  [...]

Although his profession is teaching business, Reto Marthaler’s passion is gymnastics. He spends hundreds of hours per year organising local and regional boys’ programmes. The sport is on his mind “every day, every hour, every second”.  [...]

It’s crowded in the dressing room. And no wonder. A folk trio, a jazz singer and a classically-trained violinist are all relaxing before a joint show. Such genre-bending is common in Swiss folk music today - as is a back-to-roots shift.  [...]

Yodeller Nadja Räss exemplifies today’s crossover Swiss folk music scene, and is equally happy experimenting in jazz, listening to 100-year-old yodel recordings or teaching CEOs how to communicate.  [...]

A pear-shaped colourless diamond – the largest ever offered at auction – has sold for a record CHF25.9 million ($26.7 million) in Geneva, where records were also set for the prices of pearls and sapphires, auctioneer Christie’s said.  [...]

Little known in the English-speaking world, Swiss author, anarchist and war correspondent Blaise Cendrars has been confirmed as a pillar of French literature with the inclusion of his autobiographical works in the prestigious Pléiade collection.  [...]

Saudi filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour has won worldwide acclaim for her first feature film, Wadjda, filmed in her home country. Al-Mansour, who has traded her veil for jeans, has cultivated a style that allows her to make strong statements with gentility.  [...]

Onlookers didn't let Sunday's cold and wet weather keep them from the Poya festival in Estavannens in canton Fribourg. There they cheered on the cattle headed to pasture for the summer.  [...]

Dominique Jaccot, like the heads of around five per cent of Swiss households, is a single parent. She has built a new family around her son. In spite of the difficulties, she loves life and her calling as a mail deliverer in Neuchâtel.  [...]

A treasure hunt, an automatic library, and plenty to read at the Geneva Book Fair  [...]

If you close your eyes and think of Switzerland, what colours do you see? Maybe the white of snow, the yellow of the Post buses, or the red of geraniums? A new book created by Karen Ichters and Hadi Barkat offers a range of shades and hues.  [...]