Austrian doctors treating the Dutch Prince Johan Friso say he suffered massive brain damage after being buried by an avalanche last week, and he may never regain consciousness.

Dutch prince Johan Friso remains in a stable but life-threatening condition five days after he was buried by an avalanche in the Austrian Alps, it was revealed today.

Dutch Prince Johan Friso was in critical but stable condition in intensive care yesterday after an avalanche buried him while he was skiing off piste in the Austrian alps.

A Dutch prince is in intensive care after being buried in an avalanche when he skied off piste in an Austrian ski resort.

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.

Negotiations to form a right-wing Dutch coalition collapsed today after anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders walked out of the talks.

ARJEN ROBBEN has admitted he is haunted by thoughts of his World Cup final miss.

Stockholm has been dressed up in flowers, flags and royal portraits for today’s fairytale wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and gym owner Daniel Westling.

Stockholm has been dressed up in flowers, flags and royal portraits for today’s fairytale wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and gym owner Daniel Westling.

Dutch troops will begin leaving southern Afghanistan in August, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said today.

An unemployed recluse who attempted to slam his car into an open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix was acting alone and targeting the Dutch royal family, police said today.

THE man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed six people died of his injuries yesterday, leaving unresolved the mystery of why he tried to attack the Dutch royal family.

The driver who tried to ram the Dutch royal family’s coach and ended up killing six bystanders had recently been fired and was about to lose his home, it emerged today.

The man who killed five people with his car in an attack on the Dutch royal family has died of his injuries today.

A SPEEDING car raced toward an open bus carrying the Dutch royal family during a holiday parade yesterday and ploughed into spectators, killing five people and injuring 13 others in an apparently deliberate act, authorities said.

A speeding car smashed into a crowd of royal watchers today near a open-top bus carrying the Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix today, killing two of them.

ONE of Kerry’s oldest hotels is due to close this weekend for a major facelift over the winter and spring months.

ONE of Kerry’s oldest hotels is due to close this weekend for a major facelift over the winter and spring months.

TWO Dutch ministers resigned yesterday after accepting blame for safety lapses in a fire that killed 11 illegal immigrants awaiting deportation in an airport jail last year.

Two months before Dutch elections, the conservative government suffered a setback today with the resignation of two ministers who accepted blame for safety faults in an airport jail that led to the deaths of 11 prisoners.

Netherlands’ caretaker Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende began forming a new minority Cabinet today, less than a week after his government collapsed.

The Dutch government quit today amid infighting over a failed attempt to strip a prominent Somali-born critic of Islam of her Dutch citizenship – setting the stage for elections likely to be dominated by immigration issues.

Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende tendered his Cabinet’s resignation to Queen Beatrix today, a move that will ultimately lead to new elections.

THE camera focuses on two gay men kissing in a park. Later, a topless woman emerges from the sea and walks on to a crowded beach.

THE Dutch government resigned yesterday amid infighting over a failed attempt to strip a prominent Somali-born critic of Islam of her Dutch citizenship — setting the stage for elections likely to be dominated by immigration issues.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush met Russian leader Vladimir Putin last night, certain to raise worries the Kremlin is stunting democracy even as the two leaders prepared jointly to mark a World War II anniversary.

US President George Bush paid homage today to the “terrible price” paid by World War II soldiers who never came home from their fight against tyranny.

Princess Amalia, second in line to the Dutch throne, was baptised today in the presence of Queen Beatrix and her maternal grandfather from Argentina, who was permitted to attend a royal function for the first time.

Prince Johan Friso, the second son of Queen Beatrix, married human rights activist Mabel Wisse Smit today without the approval of the Dutch government, giving up his claim to the throne for love.

The Dutch government said it will push for more European Union decisions to be taken by majority voting when the Netherlands take over the rotating six-month presidency of the EU in July 2004.

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.

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was today inaugurating the world’s first permanent war crimes court at The Hague in the Netherlands.

An Irish lawyer has been appointed to serve on the new International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

DUTCH politicians yesterday began what could be months of bargaining to form a coalition after elections that put centrist parties back in control and relegated an anti-immigration party to the far-right fringe.

Dutch voters appeared evenly split between the country’s two major parties as they voted today, raising the prospect that the next government may be a “grand coalition” of the rival camps.

The Netherlands’ Labour Party appeared poised to return as the country’s biggest party today as Dutch voters cast their ballots.

THE Dutch government collapsed last night throwing the timetable for EU enlargement into doubt. If the Nice Treaty is passed in Ireland this weekend the final hurdle for the 10 candidate countries will be the summit meeting of EU leaders in Copenhagen in December.

The Dutch government collapsed today, undermined by friction among the coalition partners and a power struggle within one of the three parties.

The Dutch government collapsed today, undermined by frictions among the three coalition partners and a power struggle within one of the parties.

Prince Claus, the German-born husband of The Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix who charmed his adopted country with his irreverent wit, was being buried today with royal honours.

Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has married an Argentine economist.

The Dutch expect the death of the guilder to be quick and painless.