Netherlands News

Monday, 23 November 2009, 3:44 pm Press Release: City Gallery Wellington Events : Film Screening: Dutch Light Wednesday 2 December, 10.15am, Adam Auditorium.

Next we stop into Keukenhof Gardens, the world's largest outdoor exhibition of flowers and learn about Tulip Mania which was the economic crises of the 1600s.

Reporting from Leiden, Netherlands - For a small town, Leiden has a surprising number of museums dedicated to natural history, medical science, antiquity and the city's past.

People participate in a demonstration organised by unions against Dutch government plans to raise the age for the state pension from 65 to 67 in Rotterdam Thousands of workers protested in four Dutch cities yesterday against a government decision to increase the state retirement age from 65 to 67 by 2025.

The trial of an 88-year-old former Nazi SS soldier, who has admitted gunning down three Dutch resistance fighters in 1944, began yesterday in one of Germany's last Nazi war crimes cases.

My husband, David, and I live in picturesque Pella and celebrate our Dutch heritage each spring at Tulip Time.

The European Union is set to appoint its first President today in Brussels. Tony Blair, alongside other present and former EU figureheads, is in the running for the top post created under the Lisbon Treaty.

Netherlands-based economist Roel Jongeneel says the nine billion people expected to populate the planet in 2050 can still be fed a healthy diet with plenty of food left over if world leaders focus more on protecting agriculture and less on the growing biofuel sector.

A Turkish film won the best film title in a Dutch festival. "Sonbahar" , a film by Turkish director Ozcan Alper, was chosen the best film at the 31st Noordelijk Film Festival in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

Traditional mosques with domes and minarets express unwillingness to integrate. That is what Dutch people often think.

Three Britons were killed and two were taken to hospital after their car flipped while being chased by Dutch police, sources have confirmed.

A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands Friday.

The Dutch government plans to bring the polluter-pays principle into the home garage.

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

A Somali man suspected of recruiting youth in Minneapolis for Islamic terrorism in Somalia has a U.S. green card, Dutch media reported Friday.

In an asylum seekers' centre in Dronten, in the province of Flevoland, a suspected Somali terrorist has been arrested at the request of the United States.

Google has just released StreetView imagery for a variety of locations in Mexico , the Netherlands and Hawaii, and has vastly increased the amount of imagery available in Spain.

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

Tour guide Frans van Marle poses in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Nov.9, 2009.

A landmark agreement aimed at giving the European Union a global stature on par with major powers like the United States and China cleared its last major hurdle on Tuesday.