Update 8.57pm: Several people have been wounded in a shooting at a mosque frequented largely by Somali immigrants in Switzerland's largest city, and the suspect remains at large, Zurich police said.

Dublin teenager John Carroll is used to standing out from the crowd. At 6’8”, he may well be the tallest 18-year-old in the country, not that he spends much time here.

Seven people are missing after an avalanche swept away 11 people near Switzerland’s southern border with Italy, police said today.

The father of the missing Swiss twins wrote to his estranged wife saying he had killed them and intended to kill himself, police have said.

Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party today won the general election with 75.29% of the vote.