Every spring in Valais, the local Eringer cows battle it out to be declared «Queen of Queens». It's not like bullfighting, where a human fights a bull to the death. The «Combat de Reines» features cows with blunted horns vying for dominance of the herd. The annual events draw up to 50,000 spectators.
Late last week, a Swiss man was sentenced in Basel to three years in jail for stealing valuable bird feathers from European and Swiss museums. Between 2005 and 2012, the man stole more than...