At least 35 people have been injured, five seriously, in a head-on collision between two regional trains in western Switzerland.

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.

POLICE combed the area near the Swiss home of missing twin girls including a nearby lake yesterday, in a desperate three country search more than a week after they vanished with their now dead father.

Emergency services were struggling to contain a mystery oil slick polluting part of Lake Geneva today.

Anti-riot agents have fired volleys of tear gas and rubber pellets at anti-globalisation demonstrators.