Europe Netherlands With Olympic medals won until the very end of the games today, the Netherlands scores impressive results in relation to country population
Europe Netherlands A 17th-century Dutch ‘fluit’ trading ship discovered by a Finnish diver last year at the bottom of the Baltic Sea has been surely dated 1636 and probably identified as famous De Zwaan (the Swan)
Europe Netherlands Two cultural sites have been added to the UNESCO world heritage list, the Defence Lines and the Colonies of Benevolence, while a third will be under consideration by the World Heritage Committee later this week
Europe Netherlands All national newspapers paid tribute to crime reporter Peter De Vries, victim of an assault in the capital Amsterdam and famous for his crucial role in dozens of enquiries
Europe Netherlands The country commemorates todat the abolition of slavery in their kingdom with a ceremony at the National Monument to the Dutch Slavery Past in Amsterdam's Oosterpark as recently requested by many in the country
Europe Netherlands Representatives of the cities of Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht, have asked the Tweede Kamer, the Second Chamber of the States General, that the abolition of slavery be celebrated as a national holiday on 1 July
Europe Netherlands Two of the 223 500-year-old İznik tiles and a tile panel, stolen from the Ulu Mosque in Adana, Turkey during restoration 19 years ago, reappeared in an Auction House, who voluntarily handed the pieces to the Turkish embassy in Le Hague
Europe Netherlands The hotel booking website Booking.com is paying back the €65m it received from the Government to help pay wages in the first three months of the pandemic
Europe Netherlands Bas Timmer, the Dutch designer who created a jacket that turns into a sleeping bag for homeless people, has now delivered 12.500 "Sheltersuit" all around the world
Europe Netherlands Ajax allows 7,500 fans into the Amsterdam Arena for the potential championship decider against AZ Alkmaar taking place today
Europe Netherlands Pokemon cards belonging to a collector from Kampen, worth tens of thousands of euros, were found in Paris