Fire destroyed a replica of the 17th-century flagship of the Dutch East India Company in the Netherlands today.

Amsterdam will close almost a fifth of its marijuana cafes to comply with a national ban on having them near schools, the city’s mayor said today.

A helicopter carrying 17 people crashed into the North Sea near the Dutch port of Den Helder but rescuers managed to pull everyone out of the wreckage and the water, a Coast Guard official said.

A freighter collided with another vessel in a busy shipping lane off the Dutch coast today and sank, a coast guard spokesman said.