Located along a bend of the Aare River, Bern is the capital city of Switzerland. Founded in 1191, the city developed into an important medieval center. After a major fire in 1405, much of Bern was ...

Situated along a loop of the Aare River, Bern is one of Switzerland’s most historic cities. Founded in 1191 by Berthold V, ...

The son of a high-ranking Indonesian politician has gone missing after a swim in a river in Switzerland. Police in the city of Bern were informed about three people experiencing difficulties in the ...

The mother of an Indonesian presidential hopeful's son has released a heartbreaking farewell after the drowned student's body was found at a river weir. Emmeril Kahn Mumtadz, 22, had been missing ...

A concrete bridge gently arches over the Aare River in Aare, Switzerland, a valley town between Bern and Zurich. Designed by Swiss practice Christ & Gantenbein, alongside engineering studio WMM ...

Bern is Switzerland's beautiful capital city, 55 mi/90 km west of Lucerne. It was destroyed by a fire in 1405 and then totally rebuilt, so it has many fine examples of early-15th-century ...

The sidewalk along the Aare River is congested with wet and happy Swiss, hiking upstream in swimsuits just to float back into town. I join them — marveling at how this exercise brings out the silly in ...