Amsterdam - Dutch police on Thursday said the sudden increase of mutilated porpoises washing onto the Dutch coast remains a mystery.
Between December and early March, more than 113 of the mammals had washed ashore on the northern Dutch coast. Almost half of them were severely mutilated, the cadavres showing multiple knife cuts or being cut in entirely half.
Amsterdam - Several Dutch KLM Airlines aircraft have altimeter problems, Dutch BNR News Radio reported on Wednesday.
Referring to "classified files" given to BNR, the radio station said KLM has registered altimeter problems on 17 occasions in the past six months.
On February 25, a Boeing 737-800 from Turkish Airlines crashed near Amsterdam. Nine people were killed and 121 injured. Preliminary results from the ongoing investigation said a faulty altimeter was the cause of the crash.
New York/Amsterdam - The history of the Big Apple began 400 years ago when the Dutch ship, the Halve Maen, commanded by Captain Henry Hudson arrived at what is now Manhattan.
The ship embarked on its journey in Amsterdam and both cities are celebrating the anniversary over the coming months with a series of parties, parades and concerts.
Amsterdam is hosting New York jazz nights while the Big Apple has invited some big names from The Netherlands such as Dans Theater II and the country's symphony orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Events begin on April 6 - the 400th anniversary of the day the Maen, flying under the flag of the Royal Dutch East India Company, began its journey westwards with the Englishman Hudson on board.
Amsterdam - Dutch aviation experts began Monday with the work to remove the wreckage of the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane in a painstaking effort to reassemble the plane to try to help determine the cause of the crash.
Dutch media reported that work on Monday and Tuesday would concentrate on removing small parts from the wreckage from the site where the plane went down on February 25.
Removal of the cockpit and further fuselage sections, the wings and the tail will take place on the following three days through Friday.
Amsterdam - Dutch police on Thursday said the sudden increase of mutilated porpoises washing onto the Dutch coast remains a mystery.
Amsterdam - Several Dutch KLM Airlines aircraft have altimeter problems, Dutch BNR News Radio reported on Wednesday.
Amsterdam - Dutch aviation experts began Monday with the work to remove the wreckage of the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane in a painstaking effort to reassemble the plane to try to help determine the cause of the crash.
Amsterdam - The mood at the Dutch stock exchange remained pessimistic on Friday with Amsterdam's main index AEX remaining under 200 points. 
