Belgium "weeps for its children". The country is holding a National Day of Mourning for the victims of Tuesday's bus crash in Switzerland. And on Syria, we look at how the British papers are following up on The Guardian's publication of leaked Assad e-mails. That's the focus for the this press review, Friday 16th March 2012.
Belgium observed a minute of silence during a national day of mourning on Friday for the 28 victims, including 22 children, killed in a Tuesday night bus crash as they returned from a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps.
Relatives of the 28 people killed in a horrific bus crash in a Swiss tunnel arrived at the morgue on Thursday to identify the bodies. Tests will be carried out on the body of the driver to determine whether ill health may have caused the crash.
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo arrived in Switzerland Wednesday along with the families of the 28 victims, including 22 children, killed when a bus crashed into a tunnel late Tuesday as they returned from a skiing trip to the Alps.
The 2012 World Economic Forum kicked off Wednesday in Davos with a keynote speech by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Some 40 heads of government and business leaders will discuss issues ranging from the eurozone crisis to Iran's nuclear programme.
High winds and heavy rain raged through northern France and Switzerland on Friday, leaving hundreds of thousands of French households without power and grounding an oil-laden ship off the Brittany coast.
Swiss MPs on Wednesday elected Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (pictured) to preside over the country’s cabinet, even though her party is too small to be entitled to a ministerial portfolio according to a decades-old power-sharing consensus.
Scientists working at the CERN Physics Centre in Switzerland said Tuesday that they are closing in on identifying an elementary particle, called the Higgs boson, which could help explain the mysteries of the universe's structure.
The controversial Swiss anti-immigration People's Party (SVP) is set to miss its target of 30% of the vote as the Swiss backed a more moderate SVP breakaway group and a new centrist green party, exit polls showed on Sunday.
Silvio Berlusconi survives yet another vote of confidence. How has the Italian leader managed to stay in power? Also, we look at an iconic American brand which started up in Switzerland - our correspondent takes a look at Chevrolet's European roots. Finally, born in Monaco but stuck in Azerbaijan - we meet 83-year-old French woman Yvonne Botto.
