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A “monster” truck, outfitted with tractor-sized wheels, has crashed into a crowd during a show in the Netherlands, killing two people and injuring at least a dozen.

Arjen Robben has ruled out the possibility of joining Manchester United.

FIFA will not be taking action against Arjen Robben after he admitted diving during Holland’s 2-1 win over Mexico.

Robin van Persie has claimed he is working with one of the best coaches in the world at Manchester United — but he’s not talking about Alex Ferguson.

Royal Dutch Shell has said it will halt its operations in Syria to comply with sanctions imposed by the European Union over the country's violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.

An explosion in the early hours of the morning damaged Amsterdam’s court complex.

At least three people were killed and more than 70 others injured when a storm hit an open-air music festival in Belgium today, an official said.

A gunman opened fire with a machine gun at a crowded shopping centre near Amsterdam today, leaving at least seven people dead and 15 others injured, with children among the victims.

A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon at a shopping centre outside Amsterdam today, leaving at least six people dead and wounding 11 others, Dutch officials said.

Two people have been killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in the Netherlands today, Dutch state broadcaster NOS said.

UEFA’s disciplinary unit has launched an investigation into whether Real Madrid players Sergio Ramos and Xabi Alonso deliberately incurred red cards.

A passenger ferry has capsized and several people are believed to be in the water after the vessel was struck by a freight ship in a canal near Amsterdam today.

A freight ship has struck a passenger ferry in a canal near Amsterdam, the Dutch state broadcaster NOS said today.

A tanker was leaking jet fuel into the North Sea 20 miles (30km) off the Dutch coast after colliding with a container ship today, Dutch media reported.

SOUL singer Solomon Burke, who wrote Everybody Needs Somebody To Love and recorded the hit Cry To Me used in the movie Dirty Dancing, has died at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

THE inaugural Paddy Games has proved a huge hit — on Dutch TV.

CLOSE to 600 journalists, TV crew members and international commentators are expected to focus the world’s attention on Ireland during voting on the Lisbon treaty referendum in six week’s time.

Mounted riot police charged hundreds of pupils demonstrating over plans to increase school hours today.

TWO children who lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus for nearly six months during a custody battle between their parents were reunited with their mother yesterday.

A masked man stabbed a boy to death in a Dutch primary school classroom today. Police said they arrested a suspect and were questioning him.

A masked man stabbed a child to death at a Dutch primary school today, local media reported.

The Dutch ministers of justice and housing will resign after an investigation found they were partially to blame for a fire at a jail at Amsterdam’s airport that killed 11 illegal immigrants awaiting deportation, the state broadcaster reported today.

A US airliner bound for India was diverted to Amsterdam under escort of two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, after air marshals and the crew grew suspicious of several passengers they saw exchanging mobile phones as the plane was taking off.

Two people in their 80s died today in the Bordeaux region, victims of the soaring temperatures across France that recall the summer of 2003 when 15,000 people, mostly elderly, died.

THE Dutch public service broadcaster has been ordered to pay back over €76 million in State aid in a European Commission ruling that could have implications for RTÉ.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post-mortem findings last night.

Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post mortem findings tonight.

A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt before an exterminator shot it dead today.

A FIRE roared through a prison complex at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport yesterday, killing 11 illegal immigrants awaiting deportation and injuring 15 other people.

A fire broke out early today in a prison complex for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 15.

The Dutch foreign minister said today that, in retrospect, the decision to go to war in Iraq may have been wrong.

A container ship with a toxic cargo is foundering in shallow waters off the south-west Dutch coast and is in danger of breaking in half if it is moved, the Dutch coastguard said today.

The oldest person in the world, Dutchwoman Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, has died aged 115, the Netherlands national news service NOS reported today.

Dutch voters rejected the European constitution today by an overwhelming 63 to 37%, according to an exit poll broadcast by Dutch NOS television.

The turnout in the Dutch referendum on the European constitution passed 30% today, the threshold set by political parties for accepting the public’s verdict as legitimate, Dutch broadcasters reported.

A DUTCH film-maker who received death threats after making a movie criticising the treatment of women under Islam was murdered in an Amsterdam street yesterday.

A teacher in the Netherlands, shot at point-blank range by a pupil, has died from his injuries.

CONTROVERSIAL Princess Margarita of the Netherlands — who is in a public feud with her aunt, Queen Beatrix — has separated from her commoner husband, it was reported yesterday.

The Dutch government will contribute 1,200 to 1,400 troops to the anti-terrorism campaign.

A Dutch nightclub owner has blamed sparklers for the New Year blaze in Volendam that killed 10 people and injured around 200.