Four drivers were stopped on the A40 autoroute in France near Geneva, all driving at least 50 kph over the 110 limit on Saturday night.
One person, driving a Porsche, was clocked at 240 kph. He was breathalysed and found to be over the limit.
All the cars were impounded.
Festive spending will be flat this year
A new Christmas survey suggests festive spending in Switzerland is stagnating for a second year.
Heavy snow coming - in the mountains
We’re facing several days of turbulent weather as a deep Atlantic low moves across Central Europe.
Small retailers urge customers to use cash
Shop keepers in French-speaking Switzerland are pushing back against the rising cost of electronic payments.
Broadcaster to sack 900
The public broadcaster SRG SSR says nearly 900 jobs could disappear by 2029 as part of a major cost-cutting plan.
Lausanne drug area now clear
On the face of it, the new policy at the former drug centre in Lausanne is working, but some fear drug taking has been pushed further underground - and therefore more dangerous – or it’s simply the cold weather.
Tiniest LEDs invented in Zurich
Researchers at ETH Zurich say they’ve built the world’s smallest light-emitting diodes — tiny “nano-OLEDs” so small that a hundred of them could fit across the width of a human cell.
