Huge Swiss tunnel opens in Alps
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Switzerland opens the world's longest rail tunnel on land - the 34km Loetschberg tunnel under the Alps.
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BIRMENSDORF, Switzerland - Swiss scientists have discovered what they believe is Europe's biggest fungus, stretching wide under an Alpine forest.    The Honey Mushroom - also known by its Latin species name Armillaria ostoyae - was found lurking in the Engadine national park in the eastern Swiss Alps, said the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research...
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world was inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac in southern France -- a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists at 270 metres (885 feet) above the valley of the river Tarn.
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BORMIO, Italy  - The Alpine skiing world  championships get under way on Saturday with two of the biggest  names in the sport going head to head in the men's super G  race.
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A website that allows would-be voters to find their way through Switzerland's political maze and match their beliefs with the candidates is booming ahead of Sunday's general election, the site's creators said Friday.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta -- Humbled at home, the mighty Austrian men arrived in Lake Louise for the first speed races of the Alpine World Cup campaign eager to flex their muscles and reaffirm their nation&#39;s status as the ski world&#39;s superpower.
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French officials on Friday inaugurated a museum that gives visitors a close-up glimpse of a network of tunnels where Allied forces hid as they prepared to attack German lines during World War I.
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Boston&#39;s Big Dig, a new system of freeway tunnels beneath the city and its harbor, has started springing leaks, and Massachusetts officials say San Francisco&#39;s Bechtel Corp.
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KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia  - Olympic champion Benjamin Raich stepped up his challenge to world gold medallist Aksel Lund Svindal with the fastest run in the first leg of a World Cup giant slalom race on Saturday.
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MILLAU, France  - President Jacques Chirac  inaugurated the world's highest bridge Tuesday, a creation  taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer then the Champs Elysees  and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world was inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac in southern France on Tuesday - a stunning feat of engineering that will carry motorists at 270m above the valley of the river Tarn.
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world was inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac in southern France Tuesday.
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MILLAU, France  - President Jacques Chirac  inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation  taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees  and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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ILAN, Taiwan  - Taiwan on Thursday celebrated the opening of what officials called the world's fifth-longest road tunnel.
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Construction on an underground physics experiment reaches a major milestone at Cern.
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Now for the hard part. Having made it through fast and dangerous racing during the opening flat stages of the Tour de France, riders veer Wednesday into the Pyrenees for their first encounter with the high mountains.
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Kuoni Reisen Holding AG and Hotelplan AG, Switzerland&#39;s two largest tourist operators, are flying back guests from Asian resorts after the strongest earthquake in 40 years unleashed tidal waves throughout the area.