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Girl With A Pearl Earring goes home

 

Art The Mauritshuis gallery in the Netherlands is to reopen with Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring as the star attraction

28 Feb 2014

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Woman avoids being hit by train

 

CCTV footage shows a woman narrowly avoiding being struck by a train in the Netherlands

27 Feb 2014

Quest for the sunken slave ship which claimed 664 lives

 

Experts believe they are close to locating the final resting place of a slave ship which sank in what has been described as the biggest single tragedy of the Atlantic slave trade

23 Feb 2014

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Dutch euthanasia minister found dead in garage 'likely killed'

 

Police begin murder investigation into the death of a Dutch politician credited with drafting the country's euthanasia laws

13 Feb 2014

Dutch would be 'better off' if they left the euro

 

There are big economic benefits for the Dutch in leaving the euro and the EU, finds a major study

06 Feb 2014

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WW2 bomb explodes on Dutch beach

A World War Two sea mine is detonated on a beach in the Netherlands, sending plumes of smoke high into the air as it explodes

01 Feb 2014

Ratko Mladic walks out of Radovan Karadzic war crimes trial

Ratko Mladic turns trial into farce by refusing to testify and demanding his dentures

28 Jan 2014

Mars mission selection 'to be reality TV show'

TV Mars One chooses its 1,508 candidates for the one-way trip to Mars and plan to make selection for final 40 wannabe astronauts a reality TV show

02 Jan 2014

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Two men mixed at birth meet 60 years later

Sixty years after they were born in the same maternity ward, two Dutch men discover they were mixed up and their mothers had each taken home the wrong baby

03 Dec 2013

OECD education report: Dutch system puts premium on quality standards

A focus on ensuring the quality of a school’s performance combined with teaching methods that rely on practice and a practical engagement with the imagination of children are behind Dutch educational success

03 Dec 2013

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OECD education report: case study Netherlands

Simon Brooks, 48, mathematics teacher at the International School of The Hague, believes Dutch students are industrious from an early age

03 Dec 2013

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S&P strips Netherlands of AAA rating

Downgrade of Netherlands leaves just three eurozone countries with triple-A ratings from Standard & Poor's

29 Nov 2013

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Wreck of missing Lancaster bomber found

The wreckage of a wartime Lancaster bomber shot down on a raid over occupied Europe is discovered on farmland in Holland

24 Nov 2013

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Royal surprise for a Dutch master plantsman

Piet Oudolf, creator of the High Line in New York and many other influential gardens, received the annual Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation Award in Amsterdam last week. Tim Richardson was happy to help

24 Nov 2013

Dutch 'Black Pete' Christmas custom sparks protests

Sinterklaas, the Dutch version of Father Christmas and his blacked-up helpers Zwarte Pieten, or Black Peters, arrive in Amsterdam amid protests claiming the tradition is racist

17 Nov 2013

Geert Wilders invites Nigel Farage to join anti-EU alliance

Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen launch anti-EU alliance to slay the "monster of Brussels"

13 Nov 2013

Miley Cyrus channels Kate Moss at the MTV EMAs

Miley Cyrus has found a new role model in her ongoing quest to prove that she’s all grown up – Kate Moss

11 Nov 2013

David Cameron: Russian charges against Greenpeace activists are 'excessive'

David Cameron is urging Vladimir Putin to make sure that 30 Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia can come home.

07 Nov 2013

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Netherlands asks UN court to force Russia to release Greenpeace activists

Greenpeace activists detained by Russia could be ordered to be released, as a court in Germany hears the case brought by the Netherlands

06 Nov 2013

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Virtual girl ‘Sweetie’ catches thousands of paedophiles

Hundreds of British paedophiles were among those unmasked in online sting using computer-generated girl called Sweetie

06 Nov 2013

Four dead as storms lash northern Europe

Four people have been killed as storm hits northern Europe leaving thousands of homes without electricity in northwestern France and two Channel ferries stranded at sea

28 Oct 2013

UN drops Black Pete 'racism' charge

Unesco official assures the Dutch that their Santa Claus tradition will not be investigated for racism

24 Oct 2013

Romanians plead gulity to multi-million pound art heist

Three Romanians have pleaded guilty to stealing seven paintings, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse, from a Dutch museum in a daring nighttime raid that shocked the art world.

22 Oct 2013

Dutch 'Black Pete' Christmas custom ' racist'

The UN has expressed concern that the Dutch Christmas tradition of Father Christmas is racist and "infringes the human rights" of black people

21 Oct 2013

Mata Hari's birthplace destroyed by fire

The birthplace of Mata Hari, the exotic dancer who was executed as a spy for Germany in World War One, has been partially destroyed by a fire

20 Oct 2013

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