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World’s first convertible cable car not for the faint of heart
This open-air cable car ride offers stunning views of Swiss Alps, but those afraid of heights would do better to stay behind the glass at the lower deck. (Reuters)
Swiss bus crash kills 28 Belgians, mostly schoolchildren returning from ski trip
A bus carrying a Belgian school party home from a ski trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland late on Tuesday, killing 28 people, including 22 children.
The bus, transporting 52 people, mostly school children aged about 12 from the towns of Lommel and Heverlee in Belgium’s Dutch-speaking Flanders region, crashed in the Swiss canton of Valais, police told a news conference early on Wednesday.
“We don’t have words, only deep grief. They were supposed to be back now,” Dirk De Gendt, the local priest who is on the school board, told Reuters. (Photos: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images)
An aerial view shows cross-country skiers climbing a hill during the Engadin Ski Marathon near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz. More than 11,000 skiers participated in the 42.2 km (26.2 miles) race between Maloja and S-chanf near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz. (Photo: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann)
It’s cold in Europe. So cold, a Swiss guy put a wood stove in his Volvo
Here’s an equation you probably didn’t learn in school: European cold snap + Swiss ingenuity = wood-burning stove in a Volvo. (Photos: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)
Odd Christmas photo of the day
Birds take to the air as a helicopter flies over the Swiss Parliament building transporting the annual Christmas tree for the Federal square in Bern, November 30, 2011. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)
Photos of the day
People look at the clouds during sunny autumn weather below the peak of Mount Rigi, 1,797m (5,896 ft) above sea level, near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, November 13, 2011. (Photo: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)
Photos of the day
A child runs amongst some of the 1,600 papier mache pandas set up in Geneva by World Wildlife Fund members to celebrate their 50th anniversary, Sept. 2, 2011. (Sebastien Feval/AFP/Getty Images)
