The Hague - Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever said on Sunday it has bought a majority stake in Chinese water purification company Qinyuan in its biggest investment in the country in a decade."We are delighted to be making this strategic investment –- a maj...

The Hague - The International Criminal Court is due to deliver its verdict Friday in the trial of Congolese ex-militia boss Germain Katanga, accused of using child soldiers in a 2003 attack on a village in the vast central African country, killing 200 people.Judge...

Geneva - It only makes sense that Tesla has decided to be aggressive in its expansion into Europe (and then Asia) since the continent is so much farther ahead of North America in terms of the vehicle electricity-supply grid.

The Hague - Dutch retailing giant Ahold on Thursday posted an almost three-fold jump in net profit for 2013 on the back of a multi-billion-euro sale of its stake in Scandinavian distribution company ICA.The Amsterdam-based group clocked 2.53 billion euros ($3.4 bi...

The Hague - Dutch bank Rabobank reported on Thursday a 2.0-percent drop in net profit for 2013, hit by a massive fine relating to the Libor rate-fixing scandal and the weak Dutch real estate market.Net profit fell by 46 million euros to 2.01 billion euros ($2.74 b...

We should be thankful — thank God if you like — that the grotesque bill the Arizona legislature passed was vetoed today by Gov. Jan Brewer (R). She chastised her own party in doing so and saved the citizens of her state, all of them, from chaos.

Delft - Dutch scientists have developed the world's smallest autonomous flapping drone, a dragonfly-like beast with 3-D vision that could revolutionise our experience of everything from pop concerts to farming."This is the DelFly Explorer, the world's smallest...

The Hague - Dutch temporary employment agency Randstad posted a six-fold profit leap for 2013 on Thursday, saying it was expecting "gradual recovery" this year.The Amsterdam-based group made a net profit of 231 million euros ($316 million) last year, up from 36.7 ...

Lead paint under the surface of a painting by Rembrandt gives away artist’s indecisiveness. This was shown by directing a powerful new X-ray at the prized artwork.

The Hague - The UN's highest International Court of Justice is to hear arguments next month in a long-running genocide case that threatens to sour relations between Croatia and Serbia.The Hague-based ICJ "will hold public hearings in the case concerning Croatia vs...

The Hague - A global police operation by Interpol and Europol has seized more than a thousand tonnes of fake food and drink worth millions of euros, Europol announced on Friday."More than 1,200 tonnes of fake and substandard food and nearly 430,000 litres of count...

Amsterdam - A moonlit image of migrants trying to get mobile phone signals on a Djibouti beach on Friday won the World Press Photo of the Year award for US photographer John Stanmeyer.A 19-member jury awarded the prestigious prize for the haunting photograph of Af...

Glendale - A woman from Glendale Arizona went on bloody rampage after her boyfriend refused to have sex. The woman, who was naked at the time, sought revenge by destroying their home.

The Hague - Police have seized Dutch online bazaar Utopia, a site similar to the infamous Silk Road for trading illegal goods, and arrested five suspects, the Dutch public prosecutor said Wednesday.Buyers could access the site using the Tor platform, which provide...

The Hague - Net profit at Dutch brewer Heineken fell by more than half last year to 1.36 billion euros ($1.85 billion), the company reported on Wednesday, but the figure for 2012 had been inflated by an acquisition.The 2013 result was 53 percent lower than for 201...

The Hague - Leading Dutch bank ING reported on Wednesday a 22.3-percent slump in net profit for 2013, blamed special factors and said it would pursue its deep restructuring programme this year.

Soccer fans attending the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in June should be aware they run the risk of catching dengue fever, according to a leading expert in tropical diseases in the UK.

The Hague - Former warlord Bosco Ntaganda played a "key role" in ethnic crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, using child soldiers and capturing sex slaves for his rebel army, the International Criminal Court heard on Monday.

The Hague - The International Criminal Court said it had opened an initial probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic, where another lynching Friday underscored spiralling sectarian violence.

Uruguay's president, José “Pepe” Mujica, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the Dutch activist organization, the Drugs Peace Institute. Thanks to Mujica, in April, his country will be the first to completely legalize marijuana.