The bodies of five skiers have been found in the mountains near Switzerland’s luxury resort of Zermatt, police said. A helicopter was sent to survey the area around the Rimpfischhorn after climbers alerted authorities to abandoned skis near the summit on Saturday. The Rimpfischhorn is a 4,199-metre (13,776-foot) mountain that lies east of Zermatt, near the Italian border, and is popular with backcountry skiers. Air Zermatt said it had undertaken another challenging rescue mission nearby shortly before the five bodies were discovered. The “extremely difficult” conditions led to a first rescue mission being aborted, the company said, with a successful attempt made six hours later.

The United States beat Sweden 6-2 to advance to the final of the ice hockey world championship on Saturday. The Swiss blanked Denmark 7-0 to reach the gold medal game for the second straight year. By reaching the final, the US achieved its best result since the 1950 silver medal. Samuel Ersson replaced Markstrom in the Swedish net at the start of the final period. Switzerland goalie Leonardo Genoni made 17 saves for a second straight shutout.

Indian border troops shot dead a Pakistani man who they said had crossed the international frontier and did not stop when challenged, the force has said. “The intruder was neutralised on the spot.”A photograph released by the force showed a dead man with greying hair. After the ceasefire, the Indian government said any future terrorist attacks on its territory would be considered an act of war. It has become more vocal in blaming India for a rising wave of militant attacks that have struck Pakistan, particularly in the regions of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of using proxy militant groups to carry out terrorist attacks in order to destabilise the country, which India has denied.

“I said that’s okay to go to India, but not going to sell into here without tariffs,” Trump said. Trump also announced a partnership between US Steel and Nippon Steel, saying that US Steel will still be based in Pittsburgh, after Joe Biden blocked a merger between the two companies in early January. Share1h ago 20.53 BST Trump announces Nippon Steel and US Steel partnership After a $14.9bn merger between Japanese steel company Nippon and Pittsburgh-based US Steel was blocked by the Biden administration earlier this year, Donald Trump announced on social media Friday that the two companies will form a “partnership”. Share2h ago 20.35 BST What happened between the Apple CEO Tim Cook and Donald Trump? “I said that’s okay to go to India, but not going to sell into here without tariffs,” Trump said.

Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned. The melting of those ice sheets would lead to a “really dire” 12 metres of sea level rise. Today, about 230 million people live within 1 metre above current sea level, and 1 billion live within 10 metres above sea level. Sea level rise of at least 1-2 metres was now inevitable, the scientists said. In the UK, just 1 metre of sea level rise would see large parts of the Fens and Humberside below sea level.

A secret coalition of western intelligence agencies supplied Israel with crucial information that allowed the Mossad to track and kill Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks in western Europe in the early 1970s, newly declassified documents have revealed. Much of that evidence came from western intelligence services and reached Israel through the Kilowatt network. Hamshari also featured in the Kilowatt cables, which described his diplomatic and fundraising activities but also claimed he had recruited terrorist cells. “I’m not sure the Israeli [assassination] campaign would have been possible without the tactical information from the European intelligence services. Even afterwards though, western European services continued to supply Israel with detailed intelligence on potential targets, Guttmann said.

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, restated his commitment to meet Russia's president for peace talks in Turkey, saying it would be a test of the Kremlin's dedication to pursuing peace. Zelenskyy said he planned to wait for Putin in Ankara with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, adding that they would travel to Istanbul if Putin opted to hold the talks there. 'We will do everything to make this meeting happen,' he said

A radar image of a speed offender caught in central Switzerland last month has revealed that the culprit was not only a duck but probably a repeat offender, local authorities have said. The duck was caught going 52km/h (32mph) in a 30-km/h zone, the post said. It turned out that a similar-looking duck was captured flying in the same spot at exactly the same speed, on exactly the same date seven years earlier, the Facebook post said. But the police inspectorate said it was impossible to doctor images or manipulate the radar system. The computers are calibrated and tested each year by Switzerland’s federal institute of metrology, and the photos taken are sealed, the municipality said.

Stock markets across Asia rose Monday as investors waited for details about the talks, including hopes of a partial rollback of the tariffs. China’s trade surplus with the United States topped $100 billion last year. Chinese tariffs on U.S. agricultural products, retaliation for the tariffs Trump issued over fentanyl, will also remain. The shift is likely, analysts said, because the trade war is taking a toll on both economies. Even before the trade war began, the Chinese economy was already suffering from stubborn unemployment, sluggish consumer spending and a looming deflation crisis.

Donald Trump hailed a “total reset” in relations between China and the US after the countries agreed a 90-day pause to the deepening trade war that has threatened to upend the global economy, with tariffs to be lowered by 115 percentage points. “We have all the cards,” the president claimed, using similar rhetoric to describe relations with the EU that he was using about China just weeks ago. The US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, said China’s retaliation had been disproportionate and amounted to an effective embargo on trade between the world’s two biggest economies. The fentanyl-related tariff will still apply, and Trump stressed that sector-specific US tariffs on cars, steel and aluminium will be unaffected. After the announcement of the US-China agreement, analysts at the Dutch bank ING lifted their forecast for China’s growth this year.

Koyo Kouoh, the groundbreaking Swiss-Cameroonian curator who was to become the first African woman to head up the Venice Biennale, died suddenly on Saturday, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa announced. Kouoh, 57, had been put in charge of the 61st edition of the Biennale Arte, which will take place in Venice from April to November 2026. In a statement, the management of the Venice Biennale said they were “deeply saddened and dismayed to learn of the sudden and untimely passing of Koyo Kouoh”. They said Kouoh had “worked with passion, intellectual rigour and vision on the conception and development of the Biennale Arte 2026”. Zeitz MOCAA said it had closed its doors and suspended all programming until further notice.

The two sides will issue a joint statement agreed during the talks on Monday, the vice-premier said. The US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, who spoke alongside Bessent, suggested more strongly that a deal had been reached. “We want to see, for the good of both China and the U.S., an opening up of China to American business. “They all look a little bit like the UK deal but each one is bespoke,” he said. But Hufbauer cautioned he was “very sceptical that there will be any return to something like normal US-China trade relations”.

Donald Trump has hailed a “total reset” in US-China trade relations after the first day of talks between top American and Chinese officials in Geneva aimed at defusing a trade war sparked by his tariff rollout. The US president praised the “very good” discussions and deemed them “a total reset negotiated in a friendly, but constructive, manner”. Trump’s tariffs imposed on China this year currently total 145%, with cumulative US duties on some Chinese goods reaching 245%. View image in fullscreen Members of the Chinese delegation after leaving the trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday. Trump said on Friday that an 80% tariff on Chinese goods “seems right”, suggesting for the first time a specific alternative to the 145% levies he has imposed on Chinese imports.

Weight loss jabs may be good for people’s mental health as well as helping curb their appetite, according to research. The Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that about 13-15% of working-age people in England and Wales have a long-term mental health or behavioural condition, with 2 million people in contact with NHS mental health services in December 2024. The authors found that treatment with the medicines, which include semaglutide (sold as Ozempic or Wegovy) were not associated with worse mental health, nor greater risk of new mental illness or psychiatric admissions. For adults without mental illness, the weight loss injections had a greater beneficial effect on mental health than insulin and other antidiabetic drugs. “While this study into weight loss jabs is important and promising, we believe such medications are only a short-term solution.

Real-world geoengineering experiments spanning the globe from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef are being funded by the UK government. Getting this “critical missing scientific data” is vital with the Earth nearing several catastrophic climate tipping points, said the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the government agency backing the plan. Geoengineering is controversial, with some scientists calling it a “dangerous distraction” from cutting emissions and concerned about unintended climate impacts. The Aria programme, along with another £10m project, makes the UK one of the biggest funders of geoengineering research in the world. The Aria programme will also assess space reflectors, which are sunshades placed into orbit, using modelling to determine their feasibility.