Amsterdam News

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu deaths have doubled almost every two weeks since mid October in Europe, with 166 occurring in the past week, the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. Across the region, 667 people infected...

At the presentation of the government's spending plans in September, finance minister Wouter Bos said the deficit would rise to 4.8% this year. Ministers will discuss the latest economic forecasts at their cabinet meeting later on Friday, the tv station...

Dutch scoring drought continues in Paraguay draw Updated on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 09:29 IST Amsterdam: Netherlands were held 0-0 by Paraguay in a friendly on Wednesday, their third successive game without a goal. Without the creativity of the injured...

It is the first time in three years the jobless total has topped 400,000, the CBS said...The unemployment rate is highest among 15 to 24-year-olds at 10.8% and lowest among the over 45%. Men are slightly less likely to be...

The installation, by Ed and Nancy Kienholz, recreates Amsterdam’s red light district. Photograph: Sarah Lee The National Gallery 's exhibition of Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz's 1983-8 Hoerengracht, or Whore's Canal, a ramshackle quarter of ill-lit doorways and windows,...

Leniency in drug laws, legalization of prostitution, euthanasia, and the push to electronically monitor inmates in their own home has created an unusual dilemma. There aren't enough convicts in the Netherlands to keep prisons open for business! Announced Tuesday of...

The government of the Netherlands has agreed to conduct an investigation into the conditions under which Ahava beauty products are manufactured in the illegal Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Shalom in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Ahava has been the subject...

Welcome to the world of new age abortion! Launched in 1999, Women on Waves has celebrated women having abortions at sea under Dutch law, a plan to send ships to countries that ban abortion so women could come aboard, sail...

The Dutch government has approved a bill to impose a tax on drivers for every kilometer they are on the road, which it says will reduce traffic jams, fatal accidents and carbon emissions. Beginning in 2012, drivers of an average...