The latest in Amsterdam

Dutch capital to be put on trial over ICoast waste dump

2010-03-10T13:17:49Z

<div><p>The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision made available Wednesday.</p><p>"The Supreme Court refers the case back to the Amsterdam district court ... to be considered anew," said the judgment, overturning earlier decisions to dismiss the case against t...

Sotheby's raises record sum at Amsterdam auction

2010-03-08T22:30:10Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An auction at Sotheby's of more than 160 works of post-war and contemporary art from the Peter Stuyvesant Collection exceeded all expectations on Monday, raising a record 13.6 million euros ($18.6 million).</p><p>The works on offer in Amsterdam were th...

Towns of One

2010-03-06T21:16:46Z

In this Feb. 24, 2010 photo, Mary Faye Shaffer, foreground, points out items in her general store as she sits at the wood stove with regular customers, from left, Howard Fisher, Sam Coffman and Jim Brewer, and employee Key West to Nome, today's Americans will largely get the founders' joke yet again...

chris rea

2010-03-06T17:32:49Z

Chris Rea live at the Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, Netherlands - 05.03.10

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Dutch government wants to sell flu vaccines back

2010-03-06T11:15:11Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government wants to sell 21 million unused H1N1 flu vaccine doses back to their manufacturers after they proved unnecessary and no other country wanted to buy them, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.</p><p>A spokeswoman for the ministry said it had approached manufacturers Boeing 737 cockpit in Amsterdam</div><div><p>A pilot suspected of flying with a forged license for more than a decade was arrested in the Netherlands shortly before he was scheduled to depart on a flight carrying 101 passengers, police sai...

French strike heightens Europe air travel woes

2010-02-23T12:16:25Z

<div><p>Travellers in Europe are due more misery on Wednesday as French air traffic controllers push on with a strike that has disrupted flights at several busy international airports.</p><p>Aviation authority DGAC said that for a second day a quarter of flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle would be cancelled...

Head of Dutch pension fund resigns over probe: ANP

2010-02-20T00:45:09Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The head of Dutch ABP, the world's third-largest sovereign pension fund, has resigned over an investigation into a failed savings bank where he once sat on the board, ANP-Reuters said.</p><p>Ed Nijpels sent a letter to ABP's board late Friday saying he could not continue given the investigation into the collapse of DSB and the l...

Winner's kiss might come from gay men in Holland

2010-02-22T08:21:31Z

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;The race's winner gets a kiss, but in swinging Amsterdam it could come from woman or man&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the winner goes the cup, the champagne and a kiss from a couple of pretty girls, right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe from a couple of guys.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A left-wing party ...

Cocaine found hidden among Valentine roses

2010-02-22T10:22:47Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A week before Valentine's Day, a consignment of cocaine was found hidden among 20,000 roses from Latin America at Amsterdam airport, Dutch authorities said Wednesday.</p><p>The roses, a popular February 14 Valentine's Day gift, arrived last...

stereophonics

2010-02-06T17:48:04Z

Kelly Jones Stereophonics performing live in concert at Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 06.02.10

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Travelers? Choice 2010 Awards: TripAdvisor Assigns the Most Awaited Hotel Prizes of the Year

2010-02-22T13:12:41Z

TripAdvisor, <B>the most renowned on-line travel community in the world</B>, for the eighth year in a row, has awarded <B>719 hotels</B> for being the best in various categories according to the travelers? opinions and reviews in 2010. <B>It is definitely the largest annual competition ever and winning such a prize is considered a honor by every hotel and resort&...

Feinstein And Bond Discuss Attempted Christmas Day Terror Attack

2010-01-21T15:32:07Z

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 21: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (L) and committee ranking member Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) arrive to talk to reporters following the committee's closed hearing into the attempted Christmas attack January 21, 2010 in Geert Wilders on Wednesday appeared in an Amsterdam court for the first time in connection with charges of inciting racial hatred against Muslims.</p><p>Wilders, who has compared the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf, "has always made his statements in...

Stricter brothel rules?

2010-02-22T18:11:47Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam's deputy mayor proposed new measures Tuesday to help tackle forced prostitution, including restricting opening hours for brothels and raising the minimum age for prostitutes to 23 from 18.</p><p>Lodewijk Asscher, who faces r...

Red Light District in Amsterdam

2010-02-22T18:47:36Z

The Red Light District is probably the most famous section of Amsterdam. The windows in the area are filled with scantily-clad women and the streets are filled with drug dealers. As such, it is also one of the most dangerous areas, and a quick internet search will bring up a long list of warnings in addition to the usual tourist information sites. Despite this - or perhaps because of it - the Red Light District is an area where freedom is valu...

Dutch fashion designer Edgar Vos dies at age 78

2010-02-22T20:24:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Dutch fashion designer Edgar Vos, who dressed stars and royals, dies at age 78</div><div><p>Edgar Vos, the designer known as "the emperor of Dutch fashion" who created clothing tailored for all figures and most budgets, has died, associates said Thursday. He was 78.</p><p>Vos died of a heart attack while on vacation in John Mayer performs to a sold out crowd at Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, Holland - 13.01.10

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Amsterdam-Aruba flight diverted after bomb hoax

2010-02-22T20:47:09Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An ArkeFly flight carrying 235 people from Amsterdam to Aruba in the Caribbean was forced to divert to Ireland on Wednesday after an unruly Dutch passenger made false bomb threats during t...