Switzerland's Canton of Valais - a World Apart
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Bordering France and Italy, the once remote southwest canton of Valais is easily accessible by train from Geneva, yet is often overlooked by summer visitors.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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SCOTLAND and Ireland will face competition from Scandinavia if the Austria-Switzerland joint hosting of Euro 2008 runs aground. It emerged at the weekend that leading UEFA officials are unhappy at Switzerland
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VALENCIA, Spain -- Alinghi won a thrilling photo finish over Team New Zealand and clinched the America's Cup on Tuesday, with Switzerland becoming only the third country to retain the 156-year-old trophy.
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KUESSNACHT AM RIGI, Switzerland - It's a cold winter's day in the normally staid Swiss Alpine town of Kuessnacht, and bands of wild-eyed young men are roaming the streets brandishing whips. Only on closer inspection is it clear that it's not a riot - just men looking for their next drink.
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Voters in the Swiss Alpine community of St. Maurice are going to the polls Sunday to decide whether to change their town's name because people often confuse it with the renowned mountain resort of St. Moritz.
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Courchevel 1850 might claim to be the most charismatic ski resort - it's where Posh and Becks went in their prime, last season, along with many a diva and divo - but there is another faraway place which, ...
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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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GOSSAU, Switzerland  - Squeezing 150 people into Vince Peiro's flat in the foothills of the Swiss Alps would be a very tight fit -- hence the tent city sprouting outside in the July evening sunshine.
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Stealth tech spied at Geneva airport A certain Harry Lime once famously explained that "in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance", whereas in Switzerland they had "brotherly love ... 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock".â¦
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BASEL, Switzerland (SwissInfo) - Swiss veterinary authorities have registered the first case of bovine blue tongue disease in the country, after cows were infected near Basel. The illness, which is not considered dangerous for humans but can devastate animal herds, has spread from Germany and France and is affecting much of northwestern Europe.
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Travel: Mat Smith finds there's more than one way to hurtle down a Slovenian mountain at speed. But whatever method you choose it'll be a lot cheaper than in many neighbouring European resorts.
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VALANJOU, France  - The village church and its steeple have dominated the skyline of rural France for centuries, surviving feuding warlords, foreign invasion and the upheavals of the French Revolution.
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A walk through the Tarn River valley in southern France is a reminder of ages gone by. Descend the verdant hills of Midi-PyrÃ©nÃ©es and you&#39;ll pass centuries-old villages, and shepherds dotting the hillsides.
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It is a land of green pastures, rolling hills and centuries of history. It's also a land of long summer days, drinks without a lot of ice and some of the most friendly people you'll find anywhere.
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How a sleepy Swiss skiing resort became the centre of global politics during the Davos summit
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GENEVA -- Switzerland opened its doors a little further yesterday to workers from the rest of Europe by dropping decades-old quotas it has maintained on the number of people allowed to seek jobs in the economically booming country.