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Cows on the moo-ve from Swiss Alpine meadow

Cows have been airlifted from a Swiss Alpine meadow in a process used by farmers to move the injured ones.

The process is done annually to the members of the herd who can't walk down from their summer pasture.

28 August 2021

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Record-breaking teen speed climber aims for Olympics

Climate activist and TV presenter

'Seriously?' - TV host's exasperation at protester

Torgon Switzerland

The Swiss ski resort with no snow

Retired NHS worker Sue Lawford spent 19 hours in custody

NHS worker escorted woman to death at Dignitas

World's longest passenger train in Switzerland

World's longest passenger train rolls through Alps

Man walks across a crack in the ice

Swiss glaciers disappearing at record speed

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Video shows glaciers vanishing as data suggests they may lose more ice this year than in six decades.

Alps glaciers melting faster as heatwaves hit

Two same-sex couples kissing

First same-sex weddings take place in Switzerland

Man with baby

The device that helped a paralysed man become a dad

Science & Environment

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

WHO chief: An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled

Sherrie Deacon

'I'm more scared of pain than I am of death itself'

Couple in Switzerland

Switzerland votes on same-sex marriage

alpine solar farm

The world’s highest alpine solar farm

Swiss

Young Swiss fans on the national team diversity

Biden Putin sumit

Decoding Biden and Putin's body language

Student looking out window

The students living cheaply in a luxury hotel

Women blowing a whistle

Swiss women only got the vote 50 years ago. Why?

Lake and Lava

ICYMI: A ‘singing’ lake and a lava fountain

Lucerne's St Peter's Chapel

Ringtone replaces Swiss church bells

Pope Francis marked the start of the Jubilee year by opening the normally bricked-up Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica

Pope opens Holy Door to kick off special jubilee year

More than 30 million Catholic pilgrims are expected to head to Rome for the jubilee, which takes place once every 25 years.

Suspect in the German market attack appears at court on Saturday

Market attack suspect appears in court as anger grows over security

Suspect appears in court after attack on German Christmas market that killed five and injured more than 200.

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen

Watch Magdeburg attack suspect's 2019 interview with the BBC

Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen spoke about his work helping ex-Muslims flee the Gulf.

Bethany Bell wearing coat and scarf stands in the Christmas market which is cordoned off by police tape

Watch: Germany grapples with another Christmas market attack

The BBC's Bethany Bell reports from the empty Magdeburg market, on what should be one of the busiest nights of the season.

Emergency vehicles in Magdeburg

Reporter describes 'chaotic situation' after Christmas market attack

A car has been driven into crowds at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.

A police office pointing a gun on a street in the dark

Video shows arrest of German Christmas market attack suspect

Footage from German broadcaster MDR shows police confronting a man lying on the floor by a car.

Macron in the crowds

Watch: Crowds boo President Macron in Mayotte

The French president spoke to residents on Mayotte while touring the devastation caused by Cyclone Chido.

BBC Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg

Watch BBC's Steve Rosenberg challenge Putin on his 25 years in power in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin was speaking at an annual end-of-year press conference.

Mayeni Jones in a yellow shirt talking into a microphone against a backdrop of scattered furniture and trees stripped of their leaves

Watch: BBC sees 'complete devastation' in Mayotte

BBC Africa Correspondent Mayeni Jones reports from cyclone-hit Mayotte, as French President Emmanuel Macron visits to assess the damage.

Dr Laurent Layet speaking in an office

Pelicot 'split personality' cause of 'deviant acts' says psychiatrist

Dr Laurent Layet explains how a seemingly ordinary man could commit these crimes.

Gisèle Pelicot speaking outside court surrounded by onlookers

'I never regretted decision to make trial public'

Speaking outside court, Gisèle Pelicot says she never regretted her decision to make her rape trial public.

Gisèle Pelicot in a crowd of journalists

Gisèle Pelicot arrives to supporters' cheers at Avignon court

Gisèle Pelicot pushes through crowds of journalist to attend court.

Crowds gather next to an area that has been surrounded by tape with a man in armour standing by.

Ros Atkins On... Igor Kirillov's death

The BBC's Analysis Editor, along with BBC Verify, takes a look at material from the scene to assess what we know.

The BBC's Steven Rosenberg outside the building where Lt Gen Igor Kirillov died in an explosion

BBC reporter at scene of explosion that killed a Russian general

Steven Rosenberg reports from where a Russian general died in a blast at a residential block.

Men guard a building with a blackened window in Moscow

Russian general killed by bomb in residential Moscow building

Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was leaving a residential block on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter went off.

Rescuer amongst debris and fallen trees in the street

Watch: Cyclone Chido batters Mayotte leaving heavy damage

Video footage shows the devastation wrought by the strongest storm in decades to strike the French territory.

Tanker sinking, oil spill

Watch: Video appears to show Russian tanker sinking

At least one crew member was reportedly killed and footage showed an oil spill amid a heavy storm

BBC correspondent surrounded by protesters holding photographs

Watch: BBC sees 'anger and frustration' on streets of Tbilisi

Large crowds of protesters gather outside the Georgian parliament to object to the appointment of a new president.

Journalist being approached by a masked man with his hand up

Moment Georgian press attacked by masked men

The journalist told the Associated Press that the men took their equipment after the attack.

President Macron speaks to Donald Trump at the reopening of the cathedral

Notre-Dame: World leaders join Macron for cathedral reopening

Notre Dame has officially reopened more than five years after it was badly damaged in a fire.