A light aircraft carrying four people crashed into the airport's boundary when it got into difficulty shortly after take-off at around 4pm on Sunday. The airport was closed for a number of days ...

A traveling exhibition resurrects Rachel Ruysch, an ambitious Dutch painter (and two-time lottery winner) whose intricate still lifes still stun.

It is cold, hard, metallic and commonly associated with pain. Not a mediaeval torture instrument, but the vaginal speculum ...

■ APROPOS YAD Vashem, where Holocaust survivors are and have been among both employees and volunteers, one of them is Moshe ...

Utah biologists invite the public to a rare, hands-on look at one of nature’s tiniest marvels Hummingbirds are on the move ...

Like other fairytales, Richard Strauss’ opera, “Die Frau ohne Shatten,” with its cast of human and supernatural beings, otherworldly locations and a magical plot, makes use of symbols and metaphor to ...

On Sunday 4 May, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands hosted its annual Dutch National Remembrance Ceremony (‘Nationale Herdenking’) at the Netherlands Field of Honour at Mill Hill Cemetery ...

He never really has since the end of World War II, when he had to use his wits to scavenge for milk powder or wait in line for a meager ration of a meal made from flower bulbs.

Discover the Dahlia, Mexico’s national flower. Learn about its native roots, Aztec history, cultural meaning, and its role as a symbol of Mexican pride and biodiversity.

The Netherlands is beautiful year-round, but if you ask us, spring is the ultimate time to visit the land of windmills and stroopwafels. Here's why.

Known globally for tulips, the Dutch are world leaders in the international flower sector, which is coming under increasing scrutiny for pesticides sprayed on the fields.