On Friday 18 April the Dutch Supreme Court decided to prohibit the Martijn Association, because their activities are violating public order. The Supreme Court sentenced that the association trivialises, glorifies and propagates sexual contact with children and that this is a serious infringement of the… Read More

A 22-year-old Dutch woman with a life-threatening brain disorder was recently given a whole new cranium (the part of the skull that encloses the brain), thanks to the help of innovative technology. Doctors at Utrecht Medical Centre in the Netherlands used a 3D printer to… Read More

Three Secret Service agents, responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam, were sent home and put on administrative leave after going out for a night of drinking. One of the agents was found drunk and unconscious in an hotel hallway, hotel personnel stated. The hotel… Read More

An increasing number of paedophiles are making use of the so called ‘darknet’, a part of internet that is hidden. It is the opposite of the everyday internet called clearnet. Through special software that makes use of a large amount of different IP-addresses, it is… Read More

Journalist Michael Heussen from the German first public TV channel ARD is covering the latest developments in the south east of Ukraine for the background reportage program Tagesschau. An Ukraine convoy is stopped by pro-Russian forces and forced to turn around. The soldiers decide to… Read More

On July 28 this year it is exactly 100 years ago that the First World War started. The Great War will be commemorated everywhere, especially in Belgium and the North of France. The Dutch were neutral at the time and never took part in the… Read More

The German first public TV program ARD Weltspiegel re-broadcasts a more extensive reportage about Jewish people in Antwerp using genetic tests to fight the chance of diseases that are widespread in the Jewish community. Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community,… Read More

The Government of Japan has donated €13.25 million to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Trust Fund to support the organisation’s operations related to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons program. It is the single largest donation received to date into this… Read More

It turns out that hundreds of copies of the famous diary of Anne Frank have been vandalized in libraries in Japan. More than 300 copies of the diary of Anne Frank and other books related to Anne Frank were found in public libraries in and… Read More

The international jury of the 57th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by American photographer John Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency as the World Press Photo of the Year 2013. The picture shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city… Read More

Only the father of Dutch documentary maker Frans Bromet was Jewish, but he felt a feeling of home coming when he was filming in Israel in 1990. He decided to make a one hour documentary about Jewish people that returned or will return to Israel…. Read More

Christmas is boom-time for manufacturers and retailers as consumers engage in an annual shopping frenzy that sends profits soaring and can give a much-needed boost to ailing economies. But it’s not just the makers and sellers of the perfumes, handbags and watches we buy who… Read More