Few landlocked cities offer an alluring tableau for the dawn like Zurich. Switzerland's biggest city sits on the Limmat River at the top of Lake Zurich, which on clear days sparkles brilliantly, ...

Bearded, 15th Century Nicolas de Flue is worshiped by all Switzerland as a national hero, and was regarded by Luther and Zwingli as a precursor of the Reformation. Last week, with trumpets ...

I traveled to Rome to accept an award for my recently published novel, The Accidental Jesus. The event would cap this year’s ...

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Rick Steves traces the events of the Protestant Reformation where they happened Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther kicked off the Protestant Reformation, which contributed to the birth of our ...

Few individuals in the history of the world have made a larger, more expansive impact on the course of humanity than Martin ...

A Swiss idea for mitigating climate change has been gaining attention, respect, and a lot of money for years. Climeworks has raised $810 million to date with its systems that extract CO₂ from ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

At least two people have died after a "severe" avalanche on the Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps on Saturday, local police say. The avalanche took place shortly after midday, and swept away seven ...

Following in the footsteps of the French oil and gas giant TotalEnergie and the German chemicals company BASF, Dow Europe, a subsidiary of the US chemicals giant Dow, is in turn suing the Basel ...

Pilates lovers rejoice - Aldi is set to bring its popular pilates reformer machine to shelves across Irish stores for the first time later this month. The machine flew off the shelves when Aldi ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. VERNON — A local woman with a history of run-ins with the law was ordered held on $10,000 bond Friday afternoon, following her arrest in Vernon on ...