Amsterdam, Netherlands Travel News

The IBM contract value is 24.5 million euro. Schiphol serves the third largest international air travel market in the world and is one of Europe's largest airports with over 40 million passengers a year.

When you close your eyes at work for a wee respite of daydreaming this season, chances are you're more likely to envision yourself soaking up rays on a tropical beach than in some noisy metropolis.

It wasn't until I boarded the Carnival Splendor in Dover, England, that I started thinking about the formal night, and that started me thinking about my formal dress.

THE scrawled writing dancing across the page tells the story of a man in a hurry to record more than just his own personal canvas of life.

Amsterdam has a reputation for being a liberal destination where almost anything goes - smoky coffeehouses, the famed Red Light District, a tolerant attitude toward marijuana.

Edo de Waart joined the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in September. Published Nov.

Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have arrested a 43-year-old Somali man wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly financing Islamic extremist terrorists.

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Another early start saw us catching the bus at 8.00 a.m to travel to Amsterdamse Bos.

IN 2002, at the age of 17, Ukrainian-born pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk woke up in a morphine haze in a Sydney hospital after a horrific car crash at Brighton-le-Sands. He'd had a four-hour operation to remove part of his skull, crushed in above the left eye, and to stop the bleeding around his brain.

Tour boats await passengers in downtown Amsterdam. Amsterdam's canals criss-cross the old city making it easy to see it by boat.

Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-MOst acknowledges applause after a 2007 performance at Vienna's Musikverein, where the ensemble enjoys a biennial residency.

T wo young sisters in matching swimsuits walk along a beach. They walk away from the camera and unwittingly into a history so horrific that millions have taken the vow to "Never Forget." One is Anne Frank, whose diary is the gateway into Holocaust studies for many youths worldwide.

Amsterdam is renowned for its red-light district and cannabis cafes so why would three mums take six children for a break there? Drugs and sex might be as easy to buy as tulips and clogs, but the Dutch city is also an excellent venue for a family mini-break. We chose it after my twin sons Fin and Joe were fascinated by the TV adaptation of Anne ...

It's crazy, cultured and classic, a triptych, a puzzle. Some of it is sketchy. Most of it is culturally rich.

In seventh spot came Roy Thomson Hall's next visiting ensemble , the Cleveland Orchestra.

My bicycle, nick-named 'Begerka,' outside the Royal Palace in Oslo. The Slott castle is the main home of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, and is surrounded by a lovely park.

A string of accidents early this morning on a half-mile stretch of the Thruway between exits 27 and 26 left packages, apples and cheese strewn about the interstate.

The only known film footage of diarist Anne Frank has been released for the first time to a worldwide audience.

While one of the greatest pleasures of visiting Amsterdam wandering along the canals admiring the old, gabled buildings is always free, the city is not otherwise a cheap one to visit.