CANNES (AFP): Shape-shifting home invaders terrorise a wealthy family of five in a Dutch thriller tinged with black comedy that sent a shiver through Cannes Sunday."Borgman" by Alex van Warmerdam is a dark fairy tale that explores the guilty conscience of a cosseted modern wife living in a ...

AMSTERDAM: Pop stars One Direction have encouraged Dutch fans to show their national pride by wearing orange to the band’s gig in Amsterdam, Holland on Friday night. The What Makes You Beautiful hitmakers will play at the city’s Ziggo Dome venue on Friday, and they want all their fans ...

AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands' Willem-Alexander became Europe's youngest monarch on Tuesday after his mother, queen Beatrix, abdicated and his country hailed the avowedly 21st-century king with a massive, orange-hued party.Beatrix, 75, shed a tear before signing the act of abdication at the Royal ...

THE HAGUE: A Dutch court jailed a former foreign ministry worker for 12 years on Tuesday for passing hundreds of sensitive military documents toRussia, including on NATO's activities inAfghanistanandLibya. "The court rules as proven that he passed confidential documents to theRussian Federationfor ...

LEIDEN,Netherlands: Dutch police arrested a former pupil at a British school in theNetherlandson Monday in connection with a threat to go on a shooting spree that saw armed police deployed and schools closed. Police in the university city of Leiden, just northeast of The Hague, confirmed one person ...

THE HAGUE: A Dutch-British composer who wrote a song officially chosen to celebrate the enthronement of the Netherlands' new king later this month has yanked the tune just days after its release following a storm of public criticism."Dear compatriots, after having to block yet another insult on my ...

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan  - On an Afghan parade ground, Dutch soldiers stand to attention at a graduation ceremony for local police officers, one of many such scenes which will soon fade into the past.The international military effort in Afghanistan since 2001 has seen scores of nations take up a ...

THE HAGUE - The Netherlands' food watchdog on Wednesday asked hundreds of companies across Europe, supplied by a Dutch wholesaler suspected of mixing beef and horsemeat, to check 50,000 tonnes of suspect meat. The latest saga comes after a vast food scandal that erupted across Europe after ...

SRINAGAR  - A friend of a young British woman stabbed to death on a houseboat in Indian Kashmir said Monday her alleged Dutch killer confessed that he murdered the backpacker for "no reason". Syed Ahmed Shoda, the houseboat owner's son and friend of the victim Sarah Groves, said Richard de Wit ...

THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Dutch court on Friday halted the extradition of a Dutch-Pakistani Al-Qaeda suspect to the United States, saying he would not be handed over until Washington guaranteed the same treatment for his post-traumatic stress disorder as in the Netherlands.The Hague judge ...

ISLAMABAD - Dutch Air Chief Alexander Schnitger visited Air Headquarters, a press release said on Wednesday.He laid floral wreath on Martyrs’ Monument at AHQ and called on Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt. Both the dignitaries discussed matters of professional interest, the press release ...

THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Dutch architect has designed a house “with no beginning or end” to be built using the world’s largest 3D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be used to print houses on the moon. Janjaap Ruijssenaars, 39, of Universe Architecture in Amsterdam, wants ...

MELBOURNE  - An in-form Netherlands stand in the way of Australia winning a record fifth straight Champions Trophy after convincing semi-final victories in Melbourne on Saturday.Netherlands and Australians progressed to Sunday's final with relative ease, with the Dutch downing Pakistan 5-2 and ...

The Netherlands are in line to win their first Champions Trophy title for six years after outclassing Pakistan 5-2 in a semi-final in Melbourne on Saturday.The third-ranked Dutch were on top throughout and led 3-1 at halftime before scoring twice more in the second half for an emphatic win.The ...

LAHORE - The Flying Dutch hockey team will play their third and final match of the three-match hockey series today (Friday) here at the Johar Hockey Stadium. Pakistan hockey veterans will collide with their Dutch counterparts. Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif is expected to be the chief ...

LAHORE - The Flying Dutch Hockey team on Wednesday beat the Dar Academy 5-4 in the second match of the three-match series here at the Johar Hockey Stadium.Dar Academy was leading 2-1 at half time failed to maintain  MNA Mian Hamza Shahbaz was the chief guest on the occasion and presented ...

ISLAMABAD - The Netherlands government and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) signed an agreement on Thursday regarding the Netherlands' contribution of $ 2.5 million in support of the law enforcement and criminal justice programme in Balochistan.  The UNODC's Country Chief ...

TOWNS in Holland could heat cycle lanes to encourage greater use of bicycles in winter. The scheme proposes to use geo-thermal energy to prevent ice forming on cycle lanes, reports the BBC.The idea has been provisionally costed at the equivalent of between £26,000 and £52,000 per mile. ...

LAHORE – Dutch Ambassador to Pakistan Gajus Scheltema said Tuesday that the sacrilegious movie released in the US would increase the misunderstandings between nations.Scheltema expressed these views during a lunch hosted in his honour by PTI leader Colonel (r) Javed Mujtaba. Other leaders ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Liberals won a closely contested election, but he faced the prospect of having to form a government with his arch-rivals from the Labour party on Thursday. In what was by the standards of the last decade a very clear result, voters ...

BRUSSELS  - Dutch sailors taking part in NATO’s pirate-busting operation Ocean Shield helped rescue the crew of a Somali dhow hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, NATO said Tuesday.In the operation early Monday, a Dutch navy transport vessel “disrupted a suspected pirate group ...

FES - Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens, the world number 149 playing in only her second WTA main draw, beat Spain's Laura Pous-Tio 7-5, 6-0 to win the Fes Grand Prix claycourt title on Saturday. Before this week 21-year-old Bertens had only played one WTA main draw, at her home event in ...

KARACHI - As a part of PHF Development Plan to groom coaches at national level, a coaching clinic will be organised at Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium from February 6-10 during the ongoing 59th National Hockey Championship. Pakistan hockey team’s Dutch coach Michel van den Heuvel will be the ...

ISLAMABAD - Deputy Head of Mission Netherlands David Kuijper on Wednesday visited the hockey team during their practice session at Nasser Bunda Stadium. The hockey team will leave for the Netherlands and Ireland later this month for European tour. The Dutch Coach of Pakistan Hockey team Michel Van ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - As many as one-third of Dutch farmers consider themselves to be in financial trouble, and a similar percentage feel abandoned by society, according to a new study by farm organizations and a public television show. A quarter of farmers consider themselves working poor, and 32 ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) Despite still searching for top form, the Netherlands booked a place in their first World Cup final since 1978 by edging Uruguay 3-2 in their semi-final in Cape Town on Tuesday. They can now make history by lifting footballs ultimate prize for the first time if they beat either ...

DURBAN (South Africa) (AFP) Wesley Sneijder fired the Netherlands to a comfortable 1-0 win over Japan and pole position in World Cup Group E here on Saturday. After seeing off Denmark 2-0 in their opening match, the Dutch now sit atop their group on a maximum six points from two games, with Japan ...

LAHORE Dutch Ambassador to Pakistan Joost Reintjes assured that Netherlands is ready to help the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) which will promote soccer in Pakistan. The game plan and techniques of both the teams are different and Pakistani footballers will learn a lot from Dutch way of ...

KARACHI The Dutch penalty corner specialist Taeke Taekema became the highest goal getter in the Champions Trophy history eclipsing Pakistans Sohail Abbas record when he scored his 41st goal in his countrys 3-2 win over Spain in the ABN-Amro Champions Trophy now in progress at Melbourne ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Around 20 Muslim protesters hurled abuse at far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders as he arrived for a meeting in parliament on Friday, forcing him to take refuge in a nearby building. Wilders, who faces prosecution in his homeland for anti-Islam remarks, came to London after winning ...