Hornussen is a traditional team sport popular in the countryside of German-speaking Switzerland. swissinfo attended preparations for a match of the current champion "HG Wäseli" to get a better understanding of the unique game.
(swissinfo, Michele Andina)
A new shopping and leisure complex has opened in the Swiss capital, Bern, designed by New York star architect, Daniel Libeskind. The SFr500 million project includes 55 shops, ten restaurants and bars, a hotel, a multiplex cinema, a spa and leisure pool, and an old people's home. Trendy apartments will be added later. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo)
Corinne and Natascha Kromer both work for Swiss International Airlines. Corinne has been a stewardess for more than 30 years, but has to follow orders from her daughter, the head of cabin crew. swissinfo joined them on a flight to Amsterdam, to find out whether this mother-daughter combo was a recipe for success or disaster. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
The Large Hadron Collider LHC is housed in a 27-kilometre tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva and is the world's largest and most complex scientific instrument. It smashes protons at almost the speed of light, recreating conditions a fraction of a second after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. (Cern/swissinfo)
50 years ago the first group of Franciscan monks came to live on the Werd island in Stein am Rhein in northeastern Switzerland. As in the past, the friars go out on the streets, bringing hope to drug addicts and homeless people.
(swissinfo)
Swiss artist François Junod has changed the automaton into a new art form. He calls his unique creations androids - mechanical robots designed to resemble humans in both appearance and behaviour. swissinfo visited his studio in St Croix, in the Jura mountains. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
Bern's Historical Museum is hosting a special exhibition on Charles the Bold and Burgundian life during his time. For ten days the museum's grounds are being transformed into a medieval encampment, where doctors have there own ways of curing people and knights risk their lives in jousting tournaments.
(swissinfo, Michele Andina)
Niche water retailers such as the Goba mineral water company in Gontenbad, Appenzell, are showing more resiliance than larger firms in a market squeezed by financial turmoil. Family owned Goba has captured a luctrative section of the hotel and restaurant market in Switzerland, muscling in on heavyweights such as Nestle, thanks to the exclusivity and purity of its supply. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
The Swiss Showband is performing alongside the world's most prestigious military formations at this year's military tattoo in Basel. The 130-strong music/dance team was recruited from across German speaking Switzerland, and has been practicing its unique show for a year now. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
The Swiss national sport known as "Schwingen" is a type of wrestling on a sawdust-covered floor. Participants fight wearing jeans covered by loose shorts. It's a sport that evokes intense national passion and you have to start young to get really good at it. Julie Hunt visited a wrestling club in Zürich to find out how it's done. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
Michi Schwery, a family man and professional salesman from Zurich, has a very dangerous hobby: base jumping. The sport has claimed many victims, but Michi's meticulous approach seems to have kept him safe. His motto is, "prepare well and if it doesn't feel right, don't do it". (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
The operating theatre is not where you would expect to see a Swiss cow, but at the Clinic for Ruminants in Bern more than a few sick animals are undergoing treatment. (swissinfo)
Vals source of pure water and hiking paradise.
Vals is famous in Switzerland for its mineral water. But the region, not far from the Italian border, has much more to offer the visitor. A day outing with a local guide and a few breathless mountain lovers. (swissinfo, Raffaella Rossello and Michele Andina).
![Junod\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/jk0JmZ9xYII/2.jpg "Junod\")
