After emergency surgery, an American expatriate with Swiss insurance now carries the baggage of a five-figure bill. Aria Konishi/KFF Health News hide caption
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A Toblerone chocolate bar, pictured with the Matterhorn in the background. The company will replace the iconic peak on its label with a more generic mountain as a result of manufacturing changes. Fabrice Coffini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Portugal forward Gonçalo Ramos celebrates scoring his team's fifth goal, his hat-trick, during the Qatar 2022 World Cup round of 16 football match between Portugal and Switzerland on December 6, 2022. Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Afghan money changers count banknotes at the currency exchange Sarayee Shahzada market in Kabul in 2015. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People took to the streets Friday in the Swiss capital, Bern, during a nationwide strike for wage parity for women. Stefan Wermuth/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
Spiez Laboratory is believed to have been involved with the analysis of chemical agents used in the U.K. It was allegedly targeted by Russian agents earlier this year. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Dairy farmer Dominique Rochat says the Swiss government's water deliveries have allowed him to keep his cows in the high mountains. Eleanor Beardsley/NPR hide caption
High And Dry: Swiss Army Airlifts Water To Cows In Drought-Stricken Mountains
These 500-euro notes are whole, dry and clean. The ones found this summer in several bathrooms in Geneva ... not so much. Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A giant poster in Geneva reading "What would you do if your income was taken care of?" ahead of Switzerland's vote on a proposed "basic income" set the Guinness World Record for the largest poster ever printed. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Artists perform in Erstfeld, Switzerland, on Wednesday at the opening of the Gotthard rail tunnel. The show was directed by German director Volker Hesse. Peter Klaunzer/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
New Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller poses with Berthold Huber (third from right) acting head of the Supervisory board of Volkswagen, Stephan Weil (second from right) Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and member of the Supervisory board, Wolfgang Porsche (right) member of Supervisory board and Bernd Osterloh (left) head of Volkwagen's works council, at VW's headquarters in Germany on Friday. Fabian Bimmer/Reuters/Landov hide caption
The Matterhorn mountain (left, in distance) after sunrise seen from the Eggishorn mountain, in Fiesch, Switzerland, last month. Dominic Steinmann/EPA/Landov hide caption
The rebuilt Montreux Casino, which burned down in 1971. Skand Hurkat/Flickr hide caption
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by the ACLU Hawaii in Honolulu on Feb. 14. Marco Garcia/AP hide caption
Stefan Daniel is a 51-year-old German clinical psychologist with multiple sclerosis. He has decided that he will end his life, by taking a barbiturate while sitting in his own living room, when he can no longer see or speak. Esme Nicholson for NPR hide caption
After landing in Geneva on Monday, the pilot who reportedly took over control of the Rome-bound Ethiopian Airlines jet used a rope to climb down from the cockpit. He then went to authorities and asked for asylum. Richard Juilliart/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Members of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) cheer after the results after winning a narrow vote on an anti-immigration referendum on Sunday. Marcel Bieri/EPA/Landov hide caption
Members of the Swiss trade union Unia, supporting a referendum to limit the pay of executives to 12 times that of a company's lowest-paid employee, demonstrate in Zurich in August. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters/Landov hide caption
Members of the Swiss trade union Unia, supporting a referendum to limit the pay of executives to 12 times that of a company's lowest-paid employee, demonstrate in Zurich in August. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters/Landov hide caption
The center for asylum-seekers in Bremgarten, Switzerland. There is controversy over rules in the town that would keep asylum-seekers away from public places. Alesxandra Wey/EPA /LANDOV hide caption