Dutch tax consultants and trust companies are suspected of being involved in a gigantic Brazilian corruption case. This appears from research by the FIOD tax investigation service.
In Leiden, a motorist is put on his or her number when he refuses to comply with the traffic rules. Something filmed on the road? Tip the editors via traffic@telegraaf.nl
In his hometown of Bussum, the typographer Gerard Unger died on Friday. His brother-in-law reported this to the ANP. Unger is best known for its design of the blue ANWB signage signs along and above the roads. Also the signposts in the Amsterdam metro and the tourist signposts in Rome are out of his hand.
Arianespace has launched a European Ariane 5 rocket for the hundredth time. The rocket departed around midnight (Dutch time) from Kourou in French Guiana and brings two satellites for telecom in orbit around the earth.
The twelve largest natural history museums in the world, including Naturalis in Leiden, lend a helping hand to the fire-ravaged Brazilian National Museum. 'While our colleagues in Brazil look to the future, we will make a strong effort to assist them where we can in the coming weeks, months and years,' said the museums in a statement.
Europe will be hosting a new satellite on Wednesday. It is the Aeolus, who will have to map out exactly how the wind blows on the earth in the coming years. This is unknown in many places and that makes weather forecasts uncertain.
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Eurocross emergency center are going to investigate rabies or rabies. In the Netherlands, the disease is rare, but around 60,000 people die every year from infection with the virus that is transmitted via bites from dogs, cats, bats and monkeys.
In an attic of the museum Hoyt Sherman Place in the American state of Iowa a painting by the Dutch master Otto van Veen was discovered. The work bears the name Apollo and Venus and was probably made in the year 1600.
The four suspects of the rape of two Dutch ladies last weekend in Antwerp, are still stuck for a month.
A 45-year-old woman reported sexual abuse by the Swiss scientist Tariq Ramadan, who was guest professor at the Erasmus University between 2007 and 2009 and worked as an integration advisor for the municipality of Rotterdam.
The A4 motorway to The Hague has been closed between Burgerween and Leiden junction over the next three weekends. The A4 gets quieter asphalt. The bottleneck at Zoeterwoude, where the road goes from three to two lanes, is shifted 300 meters. As a result, the road user gets more time to insert.
Left Moussa Oukabir, right Julian Cadman. The one is 17 years and sat behind the wheel of the van, the other one was 7 beside his mother on the Ramblas. Moussa wanted to kill all the unbeliefs, Julian loved dancing. Moussa has been shot dead, Julian is trackless and is still being sought by his desperate father and grandfather, while the mother has bone fractures and head wounds in the hospital. These are two young faces of the attack in Barcelona. In the meantime, more and more names and portraits of perpetrators and victims are coming out.
Various municipalities have reported to providers of so-called registration addresses. These are addresses where people enroll in the municipality while they do not live there at all. 'This opens the way to unravel all kinds of surcharges, for example,' said a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday.
Professor Tineke Cleiren, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Leiden, sees little in Geert Wilders's initiative proposal to prevent potential terrorists from being prevented. The precautionary term should take up to six months, according to the political leader of the PVV.
Rijkswaterstaat will provide the A4 with quieter asphalt. The work will take up to six weekends until October. The highway is therefore closed between Burgerveen and Leiden, in the direction of The Hague.
Dutch households bought more than 1 billion euros last year for products from foreign online stores in the European Union. According to preliminary figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (Statistics Netherlands), this represents an increase of more than a quarter compared with 2015.
Companies and consumers increasingly buy used computers, smartphones and laptops. That states IT company Infotheek. In 2016, the sales of used hardware by the Leiden company increased by 23 percent.
Tensions surrounding North Korea in recent weeks risen sharply. Escalation now threatens the country may want to conduct a new nuclear test and the United States threatening to counteraction. Seven questions for Korea studies professor at Leiden University Remco Breuker:
An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant galaxy from when the universe was only 1.6 billion years old. Scientists are puzzled, because the size of the relatively new system goes against all prevailing theories.
A team of Dutch researchers has built a supercomputer the size of four pizza boxes. The supercomputer named Little Green Machine II has the computing power of 10,000 PCs and has a power consumption of only about 1 percent of that of a comparable large supercomputer, reports the Dutch Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) Wednesday.
Dutch medical scientists to cure over the next decade three major chronic diseases.
Sharing fake news still seems in the Dutch elections did not play such a big role last year in the US According to a broad sample of NRC Next, which examined many hundreds of shared political and social messages of January and February.
Facebook now also takes in the Netherlands measures to prevent the spread of 'fake news'. The social network has partnered with news Nu.nl and New Checkers of Leiden University. They will intensify their efforts to identify the rotten apples from the new stream and to warn users of fabricated, misleading messages.
The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden has built a database in collaboration with Google and the Dutch software company SynerScope which it is possible to search the online collection quickly. The search time is reduced to a few hours instead of days. Moreover, all kinds of scientific studies that were previously impossible.
Astronomers have discovered a dwarf star seven planets that are about as wide as Earth. Three of them are similar in mass and climate on our planet so that there could be possible water and life.
Cars are becoming more sophisticated and technologically, but they are not designed to keep hackers out. Cyber security is therefore better, says Cyber Security Academy in The Hague. The setting is a collaboration between the universities of Delft and Leiden, The Hague University and The Hague.
Scientific publisher Brill working on digitizing the personal records of Christiaan Huygens. The notes of the seventeenth century eminent mathematician, physicist and astronomer go on diverse subjects, of course-related observations to observations about music.
PS | theater, the city companionship of Leiden, is looking for stories of people who have worked at V \u0026 D. It wants to process short fragments thereof in the upcoming show 'We Factory, 'a family drama about the fall of the Dutch industry.
With contemporary activities presents archeology in the Netherlands this weekend as an entertaining pastime. The National Archaeology Days aim clearly to shake off the dusty image.
The council wants to hire Airbnb will transfer more data from people who do not follow the rules. But several experts warn that the company is not allowed to simply share this sensitive information with the government, for the sake of privacy.
