Time will fly on a nine-day tour that introduces participants to some of Switzerland’s luxury watchmakers as well as the world-famous cuckoo clocks of Germany’s Black Forest.

The country that made the cuckoo bird famous with its clocks is now worried the bird might follow the tragic path of the dodo -- into extinction. Nature and clock preservationists are teaming up ...

Cuckoo clocks at the cutting edge of street art? Unlikely though it may sound, German artist Stefan Strumbel has given a provocative twist to a Black Forest tradition -- and it is going down a storm.