
Despite austerity, right-center coalition prevails in Dutch elections
The legislative elections left a probable right-center coalition in control. However, one piece of good news is that the anti-immigrant ultra right took a beating.

Artists protest funding cuts
Singers, painters and television presenters demonstrated across the Netherlands on Saturday against government plans to slash funding and subsidies for the arts.

World Cup quarter finals: we’re having a great time here, folks
PRETORIA, South Africa -- For the first time in the history of the World Cup games Latin America has four teams among the last eight.

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies At 100
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager'sdiary, has died, the Anne Frank Museum said Tuesday.


