News on Amsterdam

gabriella cillmi

2010-03-19T17:46:36Z

Gabriella Cilmi after promoting her new album 'Ten' at Fame Music Store. Amsterdam, Holland - 19.03.10

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Cheese Championships

2010-03-19T00:45:46Z

Judges sample an aged gouda from Amsterdam at the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest Thursday, March 18, 2010, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

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Amsterdam's prostitutes inspiration for 1980s artwork

2010-03-18T12:18:41Z

<div><p>The prostitutes of Amsterdam's famous red-light district are the inspiration for a real-life, walk-through artwork on display from Saturday just a few hundred metres from the real thing.</p><p>"This artwork has made a tour of the world, but this will be its first exhibition in Amsterdam," the curator of the city's Historical Museum, Annemie de Wildt, t...

angie stone live

2010-03-17T17:17:23Z

Angie Stone performing live in Melkweg Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 16.03.10

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Frank museum to display all writings on 50th anniversary

2010-03-12T10:16:30Z

<div><p>The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam will for the first time display all of her writings when it begins celebrating next month its 50th anniversary, the museum said Friday.</p><p>On April 28 the Netherland's Queen Beatrix will open a new diary room in the AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.</p><p>The union, NU'91, is calling the campaign "I Draw The Line Here," with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.</...

Dutch nurses: Care does not include sex

2010-03-11T10:45:27Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.</p><p>The union, NU'91, is calling the campaign "I Draw The Line Here," with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.</...

Dutch capital to be put on trial over ICoast waste dump

2010-03-11T05:17:00Z

<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&...