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Revealed: 16-year-old ‘Kenyan’ stowaway’s 4,800-mile journey hidden inside landing gear that took him from Nairobi to Holland via Turkey and UK – as he SURVIVES despite sub-zero temperatures at 38,000ft Teenager landed at Maastricht Airport, Holland, on freight plane from Stansted Jet left Kenya and stopped off in Turkey before arriving on Thursday afternoon Dutch … Read more
The Netherlands has been hit by its first major snowstorm in a decade, forcing vaccination centres, schools and Covid testing sites to be closed. Storm Darcy has has swept across northern Europe, blanketing the UK, Holland and Germany in snow, bringing icy temperatures and major disruption. The Netherlands issued a ‘code red’ emergency after Sunday’s … Read more
Gigi Hadid coyly revealed the name of her daughter with Zayn Malik a mere weeks ago with an Instagram bio update that read ‘Khai’s mom,’ after months of anticipation. On Thursday a Twitter post went viral after the 25-year-old supermodel called the baby ‘Khaiba,’ as fans were quick to guess that was her child’s full … Read more
Stowaway SURVIVES hour-long flight from London to Holland by clinging to landing gear: ’16-year-old Kenyan boy’ is found alive on landing despite sub-zero temperatures at 19,000ft Teenager landed at Maastricht Airport, in Limburg on Stansted freight plane Dutch police investigating whether it is linked to a human trafficking ring Boy is lucky to be alive … Read more
For more than 1,500 years Catholics have made pilgrimage to Rome’s Santi Apostoli Church to venerate two apostles, St. Philip and St. James the Younger – who is said to have been Jesus’ brother. Bones believed to belong to the martyred saints are enshrined at the basilica and each encasing bears the name of the … Read more
NASA’s Hubble spacecraft discovers evidence of a WEATHER system on nearby ‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanet – despite blistering surface temperatures of 2,192°F Researchers examined images of WASP-31b taken by the Hubble telescope WASP-31b is an extremely hot ‘puffy planet’ 1,305 light years away from Earth It is tidally locked, with one side facing the star and the … Read more
The Dutch diplomat who helped capture serial killer Charles Sobhraj has revealed how difficult it was seeing the killer living a life of luxury after being released from prison in India. Sobhraj, known as The Serpent, whose story was recently revisited in the BBC series of the same name, drugged and killed at least a dozen Westerners … Read more
Sleeve it out! Cold dog tries to climb inside his owner’s fluffy robe as sits at her desk working from home The Indonesian rescue dog Ralphy manoeuvres his way into his owner’s robe Daisy Gijsbers laughs as canine tries to keep warm in Budel, the Netherlands The dog pushes his head further into gown before poking … Read more
One of the attractive aspects of the Dutch character is an insistence on plain speaking. Even so, it was quite something when, after we voted to leave the EU, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, declared that, as a result, ‘England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically’. Let’s bring things up to … Read more
Anti-lockdown demos in the Netherlands this week have generated many shocking images. But there is one that may yet become iconic. During a protest against the imposition of a nationwide 9pm curfew in Eindhoven last Sunday, a police truck turned its water cannon on a young woman who was hurled against a concrete wall so … Read more