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Best Places to Watch the Sunset

U.S. News Travel | Posted 05.15.2013 | Travel
U.S. News Travel

There's some kind of magic that happens when the sun drifts down. The world -- it seems -- glows with bright light and brilliant color, but just for a...

Bring Adventure Back to Europe

Richard Bangs | Posted 05.14.2013 | Travel
Richard Bangs

This is the opportune moment for Europe. While economies stagger, tourism has never been more alluring, more important, for both the traveler and the destination. We can re-imagine, re-brand, and retrofit to bring back the thrills that once defined the continent.

31 Arrested In $50 Million Diamond Heist

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2013 | Crime

BRUSSELS, May 8 (Reuters) - Police have arrested 31 people in Belgium, France and Switzerland over the heist of $50 million in diamonds from Brussel...

Get Ready for Gatsby With These 8 Great Gatsby-esque Hotels

Joy Pecknold | Posted 04.30.2013 | Travel
Joy Pecknold

With The Great Gatsby. hitting theaters May 10, 2013, I've rounded up some Gatsby-inspired luxury lodgings. Before cinematically whisking off to West Egg, live it up Art Deco-styles in New York, London and even Lucerne, Switzerland.

10 Best European Cities for Layovers

Viator | Posted 04.19.2013 | Travel
Viator

Long flights with even longer layovers may seem less than ideal when you are eager to kick-start your vacation, but your stopover doesn't have to be b...

Four Victories for the Public Good

David Morris | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
David Morris

I'm not saying it's time to break out the champagne and start chanting, "The people united will never be defeated." But the past few weeks have brought us some heartwarming demonstrations that the popular will still has a bite.

Visiting a "Winter Wonderland" -- Switzerland

Elise Doganieri | Posted 04.09.2013 | Travel
Elise Doganieri

In my opinion, there's no better way to travel through Europe than by train. Europe has a fantastic rail system, and it's a more relaxed way to travel.

Switzerland Offers NKorea Crisis Mediation

Reuters | Posted 04.07.2013 | World

ZURICH, April 7 (Reuters) - Switzerland has offered to mediate with North Korea as tension rises on the Korean peninsula following U.N. sanctions im...

Egypt's Looming Famine and America's Grain Bounty

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.07.2013 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

Along with this new focus and responsibility, it is also high time that the nation establishes a Strategic Grain Reserve much in keeping with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

A First For Alex Katz

VernissageTV | Posted 04.01.2013 | Arts
VernissageTV

"Landscapes" is the title of the current solo show of the American painter Alex Katz at the museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, Switzerland. At first,...

The Cyprus Deal Signals a Rise in the Far Right in Europe

Daniel Wagner | Posted 03.25.2013 | World
Daniel Wagner

News of the 10-billion-euro bailout for Cyprus should not be cause for celebration. Europeans are rightly insecure about what comes next, as they should be given the precedent that has been set.

The Picassos Are Here!

VernissageTV | Posted 05.17.2013 | Arts
VernissageTV

The exhibition The Picassos Are Here! at Kunstmuseum Basel is not just another Picasso retrospective. The singular exhibition tells the story of the l...

Beyond the Pale: 'Too Big to Jail'

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.11.2013 | Business
Leo W. Gerard

Banks, after all, are nothing but corporations. Corporations are legal constructs that citizens have the right to rebuild to properly serve society. European countries began doing that last week.

They Profit, You Pay: The Shocking Nuclear Reality

Aaron Gray-Block | Posted 05.08.2013 | Green
Aaron Gray-Block

Hundreds of thousands of victims, who fled their homes to escape the release of radiation from the crippled Fukushima plant, still live in limbo, unable to return home or rebuild their lives elsewhere.

Swiss Nurse Poses With Corpse In Facebook Photos

Agence France Presse | | Posted 05.02.2013 | World

A nurse in Switzerland who posted pictures of herself on Facebook sitting next to the corpse of an old woman came under fire Friday from her professio...

Deadly Shooting At Swiss Plant

AP | By MICHAEL BAEHNI and GEIR MOULSON | Posted 04.29.2013 | World

MENZNAU, Switzerland (AP) — A longtime employee opened fire at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland on Wednesday, leaving three people d...

Why Our Homicide Rates Are The Highest Of Any Advanced Industrialized Country: It's Not Just About Guns

Myriam Miedzian | Posted 04.27.2013 | Crime
Myriam Miedzian

Here in the U.S. where we have minimal family support, providing easy access to guns, including assault weapons to millions of angry, depressed, desensitized young boys and men is a bit like throwing lit matches into a gasoline tank.

This Is How They Hijacked My Country

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics
Valerie Berset-Price

As a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland, and as someone who has lived for more than 20 years in each country, I feel not only qualified to set the record straight on this absurd gun comparison between both countries -- but entitled.

Swiss Jews Criticize President's Holocaust Statement

AP | Posted 01.28.2013 | World

BERN, Switzerland -- Swiss Jewish groups are faulting the country's president for failing to address the neutral country's failings during World War I...

In Davos, PM Mikati Seeks to Restore Faith in 'Brand Lebanon'

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 03.27.2013 | World
Faisal J. Abbas

In an exclusive interview, he says that during his participation at the WEF Annual Meeting he will seek to call on economic and political leaders to perceive Lebanon as the beacon of hope for freedom and pluralism in the Middle East.

Skiing Montana In The Swiss Alps

Mark Sissons | Posted 03.15.2013 | Travel
Mark Sissons

Splayed out beneath us is a tantalizing patchwork of autobahn-wide groomed blue and black slopes that promise fantastic high altitude glacier skiing.

Passenger Trains Collide In Switzerland

AP | Posted 01.10.2013 | World

GENEVA -- Two passenger trains collided Thursday morning near a station in northern Switzerland, injuring 17 people, police said. The accident near N...

For 2013, Let's Ban Cars and Guns

Gavin Magrath | Posted 03.05.2013 | Politics
Gavin Magrath

No one is suggesting we ban all cars -- and no one is suggesting we ban all guns. Pretending all regulation is equivalent to a ban is a classic false dichotomy: a total ban is not the only alternative to the status quo.

Gunman Kills 3, Injures 2 In Swiss Village

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 03.05.2013 | World

GENEVA — A shooting in southern Switzerland has left three women dead, two men wounded and raised questions about how a troubled suspect was abl...

PHOTO: Madonna Face Plants While Skiing

Posted 01.02.2013 | Celebrity

Like a virgin? A skiing virgin, that is. While vacationing in the resort town of Gstaad, Switzerland, for New Year's, Madonna was caught taking se...