The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, will visit Lausanne this week as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) debates Paris’ bid for the 2024 Olympics.
A man who shouted “Allahu Akbar” in a Lausanne metro station last Friday was suffering from paranoia at the time, according to the prosecutor who has charged him with ‘threats causing public alarm’.
A grey-haired woman in her early 60s
daintily lifts small trays topped with different varieties of marijuana to her
nose, sniffing each of them carefully.
From its creative vibe to its lakeside location, here’s why Greek freelance writer Rania Margari thinks her adopted city of Lausanne is a great place to live.
Frenchman Jean-Jacques Perrey, who pioneered electronic music and whose scores were used by Disney and in the hit children's TV series Sesame Street, died on Friday aged 87.
US Secretary of State John Kerry was trying to build momentum behind a new drive to end the Syrian civil war on Sunday after high-level talks with Russia and the country's neighbours.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov held face-to-face talks in Lausanne on Saturday, for the first time since Washington halted their bilateral push for peace in Syria.
It’s not every day that shoppers in Lausanne see a bunch of people dressed as sheep running around the streets. Now a video of the event, created last weekend to protest at the Swiss People Party’s (SVP) plan to expel foreign criminals, has gone viral, with over 667,000 views on Facebook.
A swimming complex in Lausanne that hosted the Swiss national championships was closed on Monday after 40 competitors fell sick from a mystery ailment.
The International School of Lausanne (ISL) inaugurated a new 46-million-franc ($48-million) campus on Thursday, two years after its ambitious capital expansion project began.
The archives captured some of the most iconic, and curious, moments in Olympic history, from pictures of the first modern-era games in Athens in 1896 to a sack race in St. Louis, Missouri eight years later.
A Lausanne criminal court on Thursday jailed a 23-year-old man for one year for a hit-and-run accident that left a four-year-girl and her mother in hospital after his speeding scooter struck them in a pedestrian crossing.
Tyson Gay's hopes of returning from a one-year doping ban with immediate victory were dashed at the Lausanne Diamond
League meet on Thursday by fellow-American Justin Gatlin.
A 17-year-old French resident who stole a car in Geneva and caused multiple accidents was apprehended on Wednesday near Morges in the canton of Vaud after a high-speed police chase.
