A mother-of-six who admitted hiding an explosives manual in her burka wrote a note suggesting she was willing to blow up herself and her children, a police source has said.
Two sisters have been found guilty of physically abusing an opponent during a water polo match by holding her under the water so long she almost drowned, news agency ANP reported on Thursday.
Four hundred years ago this month, Henry Hudson, looking for a sea route to Asia, sailed into what is now New York Harbor. His arrival is celebrated as the beginning of Dutch settlement in North America.
The cabinet is considering introducing passes for cannabis cafe users in an effort to keep foreign tourists out, sources in the Hague have told news agency ANP.
Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday they will charge an Arab cultural group under hate speech laws for publishing a cartoon that suggests the death of 6 million Jews during World War II is a fabrication.
Social workers in the Netherlands have taken legal action to try to stop a 13-year-old girl from sailing around the world on her own.
An orchestra has been found liable for hearing damage caused to one of its cello players after a nine-year legal process, news agency ANP reports.
Ever wonder what it's like to be a non-Muslim teacher at an Islamic school? If Holland's Hennie Metsemakers's experience is representative, it's lousy.
With their new Latitude 2100 laptops, Dell is finally allowing Dutch consumers to pick Ubuntu as pre-installed operating system for their netbooks. Update: And it looks like Belgian customers can enjoy this deal too.
When Joannes Rutten stepped off a plane with his grandson at Sydney airport after a long flight from Amsterdam, he thought they were in for the Australian holiday of a lifetime.
Two sisters who held an opponent in a water polo game under water for a long time have been charged with attempted manslaughter, Dutch media report on Friday.
Apeldoorn (population just over 155,000) is located 70 kilometers from Amsterdam: "In 2020, all the energy consumed in Apeldoorn will be renewable, not fossil fuels, nuclear-free and produced in our own city".
The dire predictions of religious and identity-based mayhem reached their peak between 2004 and 2006, when bombs exploded in Madrid and London, a controversial film director was shot and stabbed to death in Amsterdam, and angry demonstrators marched against publication of satiric …
I'm not sure how many of you remember Beautiful Day's song, White Bird, but I remember it and hold it in a special place in my heart. I love the song. The Lyrics of White Bird by Beautiful Day. White Bird
Every year it is the same when the official herring season starts. Before the first fish is officially sold, the experts declare this year's fish is 'fatter than last year' and of 'good quality'.
Voters to a decided turn toward Right-wing and conservative political parties in yesterday's European parliamentary elections, with agendas ranging from immigration reform to ending the European Union.
Using a pseudonym, a Jewish woman won an Arab poetry contest in Holland.
Millions of caterpillars crawled over a red car after stripping all the leaves from nearby trees. They then made cocoons to protect them from predators, including birds. The silvery covering could remain for two weeks until the caterpillars turn into spindle ermine moths.
News that live butterflies will be packaged as Mother's Day gifts and sold has been criticised by the Animal Rights Party (PvdD) and the Dutch Butterfly Conservation in the Netherlands.
This is a lovely example of some of the quirks of the border regions in Europe - I really enjoyed this article (and especially the video clip) because I also live very close to the German-Dutch border.
NATO foiled two attacks by the Somali pirates over the weekend, warding off an attack on a Norwegian tanker and rescuing 20 Yemeni fishermen. As I note in "NATO Foils Pirate Attacks," this is good news, indeed, for the beleaguered Alliance.
A Dutch man has opened fire at a crowded cafe in Rotterdam, killing one person and injuring three others. Dutch police said bystanders wrestled the gunman to the ground and held him until officers arrived. A police spokesman said the man was a 46-year-old Rotterdam resident, bu …
A doctor in a small Indiana town was puzzled over cases of MRSA in his tiny town. Ten percent of the residents had chronic cases of it. Turns out that the hogs may be harboring a particular strain of the staph infection.