Ghastly. Shooting in France There are now multiple reports of several people shot in the french city of Nimes. Authorities are urging residentsto stay indoors and remain alert. This is a developing situation.#France #Nimes #shooting pic.twitter.com/R8TCmfOPtG — Chyno News (@ChynoNews) June 27, 2025 Most reports say that there have been six injured in the attack,...
A Scottish wingsuit flyer has died during a jump in the Swiss Alps. British champion Liam Byrne, 24, was critically injured on the Gitschen mountain on Saturday after taking off from 7,874ft (2,400m). Mr Byrne, from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, featured in a recent BBC documentary called The Boy Who Can Fly. He was described as a...
Heavily linked with Rangers, former Real Madrid assistant Davide Ancelotti is a “hot contender” to take over at Swiss champions Basel. (Blick, external – in German) Rangers face a battle to land Brazilian midfielder Metinho as Basel say they want to keep the 22-year-old permanently after his loan from Troyes. (Scottish Sun), external Troyes would...
“I was speechless,” said Matthias Huss, a leading glacier specialist at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology. “It was the worst case that could happen.” Mr Huss had been aware of the situation in Blatten; he and his team check Switzerland’s glaciers all year round, and their annual reports show a clear, accelerated thaw, linked to...
The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley. Although the village had been evacuated some days ago because of fears the Birch glacier was disintegrating, one person has been reported missing, and many homes have been completely flattened. Local authorities describe the situation...
A Swiss mountain village has been buried in a deluge of ice, mud and rock, after a big chunk of the Birch glacier collapsed into the valley below. The village of Blatten, which was evacuated of its roughly 300 residents several days ago, was on Wednesday overwhelmed by thousands of tonnes of mud and ice....
A rescue mission is under way to reach several people buried in an avalanche on the Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps, local police say. The avalanche took place shortly after midday on Saturday, Bern Cantonal police said in a statement on social media. They said they had launched a large-scale operation involving several rescue...
A Swiss and Austrian climbing pair have shattered the speed record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains – the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Switzerland’s Nicolas Hojac and Austria’s Philipp Brugger shaved nearly ten hours off the previous record set more than two decades ago. Read full article at...