Switzerland to bask in the glow of a Swiss-style Christmas. Joseph visits a Christmas ornament artist, samples Swiss culinary specialties, journeys to old St. Nick’s village for a close ...

The Swiss public this year donated 61,170 unwanted or surplus presents for the “2 x Christmas” campaign, including 59,400 gift packages and 1,770 online parcels that will be given to people ...

From Christmas Eve until January 7, members of the public are being encouraged to bring unwanted presents to any Swiss post office, from which they are sent free of charge to the supply depot in Bern.

More Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters Hundreds of thousands of people in Switzerland eat cat and dog meat, particularly at Christmas, according to a Swiss animal rights group seeking to ban the practice.