Netherlands News

Golden Valley High School teacher Tina Spurlock arrived to work at a very different place this morning: Dalton Lyceum, a secondary school in the Netherlands.

A top Cuban pitching prospect with a 100 mph fastball has defected from the national team while playing in a tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Italian train disaster could happen in the Netherlands AD warns that a train inferno like the one in Italy yesterday in which at least 14 people died and 1000 had to be evacuated could just as easily happen in the Netherlands.

June 30, 2009 -- Men with a history of fertility problems may curb DNA-damaged sperm by ejaculating for seven days in a row, a new study shows.

Treatment with a cholesterol-lowering drug might protect against Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Women who have a diminished number of eggs in their ovaries, either because they are older or for some other reason such as ovarian surgery, may be more at risk of a trisomic pregnancy than women with an ovarian reserve within the normal, fertile range.

I spent the month of June in Europe and one of the highlights was the nlscrum meeting held at Xebia in the Netherlands.

This is a Dutch TV video about the controversy about the painting by Karel Appel "Bird". From Radio Netherlands Worldwide : An artist from Amsterdam says a Cobra painting in the Groningen Museum is a fake.

People who are convicted for possession of child pornography will no longer be eligible for house arrest with electronic surveillance, a court in Den Bosch ruled on Tuesday.

A new study shows that high levels of job strain during early pregnancy are associated with reduced birthweight and an increased risk of delivering a small-for-gestational-age infant.

Children who are overweight at age 6 to 7 years are at increased risk for having symptoms of asthma like shortness of breath and "twitchy" airways when they are 8 years old, results of a study conducted in the Netherlands show.

From a press release issued by FIM: The Grand Prix Commission, composed of Mr. Carmelo Ezpeleta , Claude Danis , Herve Poncharal and Takanao Tsubouchi , in the presence of Messrs Vito Ippolito , Ignacio Verneda , Javier Alonso and M. Paul Butler , in a meeting held on June 26 in Assen , decided unanimously the following: MotoGP It has been ...

The pungent smelling Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the Titan arum, the world's largest flower, is tended to by Science and Collections co-ordinator Kath King at Kew Gardens, London, in this May 2, 2002 file photo.

Dutch scientists Thursday reported that one of 15 Frisian godwit birds they had fitted with tiny transmitters had flown from the Netherlands to the West African state of Senegal within 72 hours - a distance of more than 4,600 kilometres.

Minneapolis has been named one of the world's Top 10 biking cities. Minneapolis was one of only three U.S. cities chosen by Travel and Leisure magazine.

LEAD STORY : Competitive Facial Hair: At the biennial World Beard and Moustache Championships in May in Anchorage, Alaska, four local heroes "defeated" the usually dominant German contingent in the 18-category pageant, including overall champ David Traver of Girdwood, Alaska, whose woven chin hair suggests a long potholder.

Italian lothario and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has lashed out at reports that women were paid to spend the night at his home by announcing he has "never paid for a woman." Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attends a meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende at the Chigi Palace in Rome May 14, 2009.

Russia and the Netherlands have a oeserious plansa to extend energy projects and a oeenhancea European fuel security as Royal Dutch Shell Plc seeks a role in the gas-rich Yamal region, President Dmitry Medvedev said.

WASHINGTON The White House says President Barack Obama will be meeting next month with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende to discuss bilateral relations and the Netherlands help with the U.S.-led effort to defeat Taliban and al-Qaida forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Fireworks are seen over the Amstel river and the Hermitage Amsterdam museum, right, at the end of... Fireworks are seen over the Amstel river and the Hermitage Amsterdam museum, right, at the end of the official opening ceremony with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev and Dutch Queen Beatrix in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday June 19, 2009.