Tweets reveal your age and gender

Researchers at a Dutch university have developed an online program that is able give the age and gender of users, purely based on the content they post on the social network Twitter.

• Smartphone app helps fight fat
• App finds yoga classes wherever you are
• Twitter launches iPhone video sharing app

Beatrix: Queen who retires a princess

The Netherlands' queen Beatrix, who has reverted to a princess after abdicating in favour of her son King Willem-Alexander, has won many Dutch hearts in her 33 years on the throne.

• Amsterdam preps for queen's farewell
• Less influence for new king of Netherlands
• Willem-Alexander named Dutch Kingview

Cyber attack suspect had bunker

A Dutch suspect arrested in Spain over a major cyber attack used a well-equipped bunker and van.

• Dutch Banks hit by hackers
• Australia arrests hacker leader
• Reuters 'hacking' editor fired

Less influence for new king of Netherlands

The Dutch will have their first king in more than 120 years when Willem-Alexander succeeds his mother Queen Beatrix, bringing a more hands-off style to the throne.

• UK queen not likely to follow Dutch
• Queen Beatrix abdicates

Dutch police free school shooting suspect

Dutch police say they have released a former British School pupil arrested in connection with an online threat to carry out a school shooting after ruling him out as a suspect.

• Netherlands: Ex-pupil held for threat
• Dutch schools on lockdown after gun threat

Museum defends Justin Bieber over comment

Justin Bieber has come under fire for saying Anne Frank "would have been a belieber" had she still been alive, but the Amsterdam museum he visited says it's nice he came at all.

• Justin's Belieber comment 'dumb, crass'
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• Justin Bieber admits being spiritual

ICC probing staffer over DRC sex claims

The International Criminal Court has opened a formal investigation into allegations by four people who say they were subjected to sexual abuse by a court staff member working in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• DRC 'Terminator' faces ICC judges
• ICC acquits Congolese ex-militia boss

Dutch journalist in Cairo released

A Dutch journalist has been briefly detained in Cairo after a group of Egyptians accused her of spying as she interviewed people.

• Egypt military arrests BBC journalist
• Egypt arrests 6 Al Jazeera journalists
• Another Al Jazeera journalist arrested

UN experts waiting to enter Syria

UN experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks, but President Bashar Assad's government still has not approved their entry.

• Swedish prof to lead Syria weapons probe
• Chemical weapons used in Syria - Israel
• UN to probe chemical weapon use in Syria

European gangs find new ways to earn

Europe's economic crisis has made underworld criminals move into new kinds of illegal activities ranging from the counterfeiting of food and medicine to illicit waste trafficking and fraud.

• EU veers from treaty change for all states
• Pope advises EU bankers
• Key reforms win initial approval in Italy

Dutch police hunt exotic monkey thieves

Dutch police have launched an investigation into the overnight theft of 12 rare monkeys from an animal park, which has left zoo workers fearing for the tiny primates' lives.

• Exotic pets scam exposed
• Flier caught with monkey in his pants
• Monkeys steal food from Durban hospital

City to raise legal age for prostitutes

Amsterdam's mayor says the city plans to raise the minimum age of prostitutes from 18 to 21 and force brothels to close in the early morning hours.

• Dutch granny prostitutes celebrate red-light life
• Brothels see red over rules
• Taxman sets sights on prostitutes

Horsemeat scandal: Allegations of cruelty

A new row over the treatment of horses farmed in the Americas has erupted as the fallout from Europe's horsemeat scandal spreads far outside the continent.

• Europe horsemeat scandal spreads to Asia
• France jumps into horsemeat scandal
• Horsemeat scandal hits Nestle

Scuffles at Dutch MP Wilders' event

Police restored order as scuffles broke out outside an Australian venue where Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders was speaking, but authorities say that no arrests have been made.

• Dutch far-right leader targets Europe
• Far-right Dutch leader prompts PM's exit
• Olympics: UK to ban rights abuse leaders

Queen Beatrix abdicates

Dutch Queen Beatrix is abdicating in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander, who will become king on 30 April.

• Dutch prince 'still not out of danger'
• Dutch queen to meet officials
• Indian claim against Dutch Queen rejected

Police track burglars through snow

Dutch police have tracked down a pair of burglars trying to break into a tennis club by following their footprints in freshly fallen snow.

• Snow helps crime-busting Dutch cops

Amsterdam to ban joints in schools

Amsterdam's mayor is to formally ban cannabis smoking at all schools, the first city in the soft-drug tolerant Netherlands to do so, a spokesperson says.

• Amsterdam's weed cafes to remain open
• Amsterdam's weed cafes to remain open
• Dutch government scraps 'weed pass'

Dutch granny prostitutes celebrate red-light life

In a busy passage in Amsterdam's red light district fans jostle to have their picture taken with the city's most famous great-grannies: The Dutch capital's oldest prostitutes.

• 150-year-old brothel fights closure

Plans shelved to sell Nazi camp wire

The foundation in charge of a former Nazi concentration camp in the Netherlands has cancelled the planned sale of pieces of barbed wire dug up at the site.

• Neo-Nazi dad shot by son, 10, was 'abusive'
• Nazis found 'out-of-space' Buddah
• Germany honours Roma Holocaust victims

Dutch police bust Nigerian wedding scam

Dutch police have busted a wedding scam involving Dutch citizens being paid to go to Britain to marry illegal Nigerian immigrants so they can obtain residency there, say prosecutors.

• Minister jailed over sham marriages

Stolen art a burden without contacts

If the thieves who robbed Rotterdam's Kunsthal exhibition don't have a plan, the instantly recognisable pieces by Picasso, Matisse and Monet worth millions, could quickly become a burden.

• Stolen masterpieces worth up to €200m
• Art thieves were no Ocean's Eleven team

Stolen masterpieces worth up to €200m

Seven masterpieces, including paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Gauguin, have been stolen from a Dutch museum in a pre-dawn heist, police said.

Imprisoned Dutch killer impregnates girl

A report says that Joran van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman while imprisoned in Lima.

• Dutch murder suspect suing Chile
• Dutch suspect confesses to murder

Dutch city puts its jobless back to work

The Netherlands has had the reputation of being a generous welfare state, but in some cities like Rotterdam this is changing: the jobless are now put to work to earn their keep.

• Workers, jobless the new divide - De Klerk
• Unemployed 'hero' saves the day
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