BERN, Switzerland - The mouthwash-green water is churning along at an incredible pace. Eddies and small whirlpools fly past in a surprisingly swift current, given how wide the waterway is. Neither ...

Discover Bern, the captivating capital of Switzerland, nestled in a scenic bend of the Aare River. Founded in 1191 by Duke Berthold V of Zähringen as a military outpost, Bern boasts a remarkably ...

It's quiet this time of morning on the Aare River – a little too quiet. The summer sun is just beginning to warm the air around me. The streets of Bern are filling with people. Soon the river, too, ...

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The sidewalk going up 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 ...

Green-turquoise under the cloudless sky, the water flowed at a pace I was unable to match – and I was walking with a fixed time-limit and purpose. Was I really going to risk a swim in the Aare river?

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 ...

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