As European vacations go, this one is pretty far removed from the sun lounger and beach towel. Newstalk’s Henry McKean is going to Amsterdam to personally “experience” childbirth.

The vast majority of people living in Ireland (80%) believe that corruption is a major problem for the country; that it is part of Irish business culture and is widespread among politicians, according a new EU-wide survey.

A Greek tanker collided with a container ship 30km off the Dutch coast today and briefly leaked jet fuel into the North Sea, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

DNA test results expected today could confirm whether a possible sighting of missing Madeleine McCann in Belgium needs further investigation.

A German teen who stormed his former school with guns and bombs had venerated as “God” one of the gunmen in the 1999 Columbine shooting in the US, according to excerpts from his diary published today.

A former student armed with guns and bombs stormed a high school in north-western Germany today, injuring 25 people before he was found dead, police said.

Steve McClaren’s massive England squad for this week’s friendly with Holland has been trimmed down to 22 following the withdrawal of half a dozen players this evening.

Socialite Paris Hilton insists she is still single, despite being spotted with former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker in New York City and Amsterdam.

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

Hurricane Emily strengthened dangerously today after slamming into Grenada, where it blasted out windows and flooded two main hospitals and tore roofs from homes still damaged by last year’s storms. At least one man was killed.

More than 400 people have tested positive for tuberculosis in the Dutch town of Zeist.

Joseph Luns, a former Dutch foreign minister and Nato chief who guided the Western alliance through a critical Cold War decade, died today. He was 90.

Two farms in western Germany are under quarantine on suspicion that Britain's foot and mouth disease outbreak might have spread there.

A government advisory body in Dutch has recommended legislation that would give companies the right to read staff e-mail and screen internet use.