Thirty years after the fall of the Wall, the Germans finally come with a fast train from Amsterdam to Berlin. After extra insistence from the Dutch Railways a few months ago, our eastern neighbors chose...
In Caracas, thousands of Venezuelans again protested against President Nicolás Maduro at the urging of opposition leader Juan Guaidó. The controversial socialist head of state...
Chanel sadly reacted to the death of Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic German couturier who was chief designer at the French fashion house. According to CEO Alain Wertheimer, 'a friend...
A woman who participated in a marathon in Thailand came across a stray puppy on the way and took the animal with her on her journey. She had about thirty kilometers ahead of her.
Normally the finder of a wallet hopes for a reward. But an American who got back his lost scholarship only got ahead.
Turkey does not intend to comply with the renewed sanctions that the United States has taken against Iran. That is what President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in parliament. He finds Washington's measures dangerous for stability in the world.
Most EU countries, including the Netherlands, want to postpone the Brussels plan to put an end to the biannual resistance of the clock next year. A majority of Member States also believe that as many countries as possible should choose the same standard time as the current scheme disappears.
Conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro has won the presidential elections in Brazil. That has been announced by the Brazilian electoral council. About 97 percent of the votes were counted, with 55 percent going to the former military, reports the BBC.
The government must report to Brussels no later than March next year whether the Netherlands will switch to permanent summer or winter time in 2019. The European Commission is putting an end to the half-yearly clocking in the EU, said President Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual policy speech.
Adriano owes his life to a serious accident. In the hospital they discovered a large tumor in his head.
In the 90s there were two characters who always tried to outsmart each other: Crash Bandicoot and Spyro The Dragon. Crash the pouchbag and Spyro the purple dragon try again to stick out above each other, because Spyro wants to come flaming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this year. His age-old rival Crash Bandicoot, on the other hand, is a few steps ahead of him.
The 19-month breakdown of the acquisition of NXP by its American counterpart Qualcomm, is not a disaster for the Dutch chipmaker. It is well positioned to continue independently and receives a $ 2 billion penny fee from Qualcomm, now that the $ 44 billion deal will not go ahead. The Americans needed NXP harder than the other way around.
Jean-Claude Juncker thanks Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the support he offered him Wednesday night when he had pain attacks as a result of a disorder on his back. The President of the European Commission also thanked the Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, who also helped keep Juncker going for dinner at the NATO summit in Brussels.
Stormy Daniels, who was arrested Thursday for touching three undercover agents during a performance in a strip club, is as free as a bird. The charge against the porn actress was rejected by the court on Thursday. That is what CNN says.
What could have become a drama ended this afternoon as a fairy tale. The twelve Thai football players of the Wilde Zwijnen team and their coach have all escaped from the Tham Luang cave. Hollywood is warming up for the story that seems written for the white screen.
The eyes will be focused on Donald Trump this week at the NATO summit. It is expected that the US president will again read the heads of government of the member states, which in his view are still insufficient in defense, to read the lesson in the new headquarters in Brussels.
The Benelux, the partnership between the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, still has plenty of plans for the future. The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the three countries meet in Brussels Tuesday to look back and look ahead. Despite the somewhat old-fashioned image, the Netherlands sees the Benelux as 'more relevant than ever'.
Real Madrid has won the Champions League on Saturday for the third year in a row. In Kiev, Zinedine Zidane's team accounted for 3-1 with Liverpool from the Dutch team Virgil van Dijk and Georginio Wijnaldum.
Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire, is going to study as an astronaut.
North Korea threatens to cancel the summit between leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump on June 12th. Pyongyang is angry about the military exercises that the Americans hold up to May 25 with South Korea. The South Korean news agency Yonhap has announced this. The reconciliation talks scheduled for Wednesday between senior officials from North and South will not take place.
The violence in London continues unabated. On Saturday evening the 17-year-old Rhyhiem was shot dead in the street, after which his mother made a call. 'Let my son be the last!' But it went wrong again on Sunday.
The North Korean leader Kim Jung-un wants to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea to join in the closure of the site where nuclear tests have been conducted for years. That is what a government spokesman in Seoul said on Sunday.
It is moving ahead with the EU when it is up to the French President Emmanuel Macron. He even wants to spend more money on the European budget, but remains vague about what he wants.
A well-known monk from India called Penis Baba has pulled a car about thirty meters with the help of his genitals. In a video, he can see this man attaching the vehicle to his penis, under his white robe, and then running.
Bill Cosby paid Andrea Constand nearly 3.4 million dollars in 2006 in order not to bring him to court. The prosecutor announced this on Monday during his opening statement in the second handling of the abuse case against the comedian.
Bizarre situation in the Kosovo Parliament. In order to prevent a vote on border agreements with Montenegro, members of the opposition threw a few tees of tear gas into the hall on Wednesday.
The two-year-old girl Kiara drowned in her parents' car in Cardigan, Wales. The vehicle had been reported as stolen or missing a few hours earlier and was found in the river Teifi after a search by the police. It is not clear how the vehicle ended up in the water.
Former US envoy for North Korea, Joseph Yun, has urged the regime in North Korea to send a positive signal by releasing three US prisoners ahead of the US-US summit. That is what Yun, who suddenly retired last month, said in an interview with CNN.
The Russian Maria Lebedeva (23), once the most beautiful girl in the class, had a bright future ahead of her after her graduation. But her beauty and brains remained little when she got a car accident after a violent fight with her boyfriend.
Sniff a line of coke, use heroin or smoke a joint while watching a football match during the World Cup in Russia. That is allowed, provided you have a recipe and the necessary papers. This is reported by various Russian media, including The Moscow Times.
