After a two-year break, jazz aficionados are gathering in Rotterdam in the Netherlands for a three-day musical feast
Calls intensify to focus on helping high-risk communities adjust to climate change
One person has been killed after a gunman opened fire on a tram in the Dutch city Utrecht.
Turkish government insists on holding campaign meetings in W-Europe, but Germany and the Netherlands will have none of it.
Poor city planning and failed public-private partnerships doomed the floating building that what was to be Rotterdam’s pride.
The first European trial of suspected Somali pirates opened in The Netherlands on Tuesday with five men denying they attempted to hijack a ship.
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/ 22 February 2008
Top seed Rafael Nadal was stunned 3-6 6-3 6-4 by Italian Andreas Seppi in one of series of second-round upsets at the World Indoor Tournament on Thursday. Second seed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, third seeded Spaniard David Ferrer and fifth seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic also suffered early exits.
World markets match buyers and sellers for goods as different as oil and wheat or cars and computers. Why not for human organs like kidneys? Strong demand for life-saving transplants and short supply of organs has raised ethical issues about whether humans should be treated like vessels to provide spare parts.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored two goals on Sunday to help Ajax win the Dutch Cup with a 2-1 victory over PSV Eindhoven. The win boosted Danny Blind’s chances of keeping his job as Ajax coach. On Friday, a club spokesperson told The Associated Press that Blind’s position would be reviewed after Sunday’s match.
A leading scientist warned on Wednesday that the avian flu virus is on the point of mutating into a pandemic disease and says that current estimates that such a pandemic could cause 7,5-million deaths may understate the threat. His warnings come as experts writing in Thursday’s edition of Nature voice concerns about the world’s inability to manufacture sufficient vaccines for a pandemic.
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/ 21 February 2005
Roger Federer triumphed in his 15th straight final without a loss on Sunday as he shut down the 782 250-euros Rotterdam Open. The Swiss world number one, who claimed 11 titles in 2004, now has two for this season — both at the expense of his 19th ranked Croatian opponent.
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/ 15 February 2005
Clay-court kings Juan Carlos Ferrero and Guillermo Coria broadened their tennis horizons with convincing opening-round victories indoors at the €782 250 Rotterdam Cup on Monday. Ferrero and Coria have both abandoned the inviting red-dirt events of South America this month to polish their indoor fitness in Europe.