Switzerland

Polanski’s victim wants court to drop charges

Samantha Geimer cites health problems. But will her request help the director's cause?

Plus:

Polanski shock: the Swiss tipped off the Americans

Revelation renews gossip that arrest was linked to UBS offshore banking scandal

Will 'depressed' Polanski ask for release on compassionate grounds?

Alexander Cockburn: The director feared how fellow prisoners would react

There is a marked difference in tone between attitudes in the US and Europe

Theory gains ground that pressure from UBS AG helped get the film director arrested

The Oscar-winning director had evaded the clutches of the Los Angeles county DA before

Swiss tightrope walker Freddy Nock scales Germany's highest mountain, the 2,962 metre (9,718 feet) Zugspitze

Photography: Base jumpers leap from an alpine cliff in the Lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland

Drilling machine 'Gaby' breaks through to complete the trans-Alpine NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel

PIC OF THE DAY
All smiles at the Knox trial