The US president Donald Trump has given the green light for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. That pipeline of nearly 1,900 kilometers have to transport crude oil from the tar sands fields in Canada to refineries in the southern United States.
The most expensive mansion in the province of Gelderland, North Fort at Megchelen, has a new owner. The house was for sale for 7.5 million euros. The agency would not say whether that price ultimately paid by the Gelderlander.
Two Americans are in a garage under the chic Place Vendome robbed of jewelry worth 400,000 euros. The newspaper Le Parisien reported Friday that two perpetrators Americans attacked Thursday evening as they walked to their cars. Place Vendome has plenty of jewelers.
Dutch restaurateurs in Rome began restoration work on two historic fountains. By a Dutch association founded in Rome has raised money for the restoration and also made donations in the Netherlands itself. It is a saving grace for the misconduct of Feyenoord fans which caused damage in 2015 in the Italian capital, around the match against AS Roma.
China importing more and more goods and services from the Netherlands. Last year it went to an amount of EUR 8.5 billion, more than double compared with 2008, according to figures released Tuesday by the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS).
In just half a century, the computer is reduced from room-filling machine to a device that you constantly lose between the cushions of the couch. Good news is probably not a problem in the foreseeable time. Namely the computer sitting on your nose and adds useful things to the realities increasing.
The memoirs of Barack and Michelle Obama go to the former US president and his first lady gold make money. The publishers struggle to publish their memories of the couple at the time in the White House in book form. According to the Financial Times certainly exceeds a bid 60 million dollars (56.5 million euros). That's in the US, a record amount for a presidential memoir.
Where can you grow your safer drugs than in a former nuclear shelter, so thought three British criminals. They used the twenty rooms of a former bomb shelter of the Ministry of Defence in Swindon, an hour's drive of London, for the cultivation of cannabis worth 1.17 million euros.
Thieves have stolen Monday bags of discarded clothes from textile containers in Uden, but a day later found in Poland thanks to a lock-GPS between the clothes. The transmitter was on the way to follow the van from the thieves. The perpetrators are missing, the clothes lying on a police station in the town of Czaplinek in northwestern Poland.
Evan Spiegel, one of the founders of Snapchat, can earn more than half a billion dollars if the IPO is a success. He will receive 36.8 million shares, representing 14 to 16 dollars worth each. In total, the package can thus get a value of 588 million dollars, converted 552 million.
Renault Netherlands will pay 2 million for his role in the bribery scandal at the Ministry of Defence. The importer purchased a defense official order with the goal to win contracts for service vehicles worth millions of euros.
CEO Jack Dorsey of the beleaguered microblog Twitter has bought for $ 7 million of its own shares. Typically this is seen as a sign of confidence in the company.
Scientists testing a mini drone that helps bees to pollinate plants. The drone damage to crops must by helping reduce a shortage of bees and pollination.
Philips Lighting sees more value in sending data via light. The divested Philips component has quietly taken over the French Li-Fi specialist Colombelles.
A 37-year-old woman living in the US state of Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting. The woman, who was brought as a baby from Mexico to the US, had voted in elections in 2012 and 2014 as 'resident' while 'non-resident' had been allowed to cast a vote.
The French judge in charge has traveled to the United States with the investigation into the theft of jewels Kim Kardashian in Paris to hear the TV reality star. He spoke to her on Wednesday in New York. Supposedly showed the investigating judge Kardashian photos of the suspects.
Accidentally saw a kokako? Report quickly than, for spotting this bird on the South Island of New Zealand is worth money. The 'South Island kokako Foundation' has put a premium of 5,000 New Zealand dollars (nearly 3,400 euros) on the head of the beast, which is considered extinct. For some time there questioned again.
Former Greens-leader Alexander Van der Bellen (73) is installed Thursday as the new president of Austria. After taking the oath, he held in his acceptance speech to the parliament in Vienna an impassioned plea for the European Union.
An American thief in the Texan city Fort Worh managed to steal an exclusive guitar by plugging the instrument into his pants. Then the man walked casually with the loot out.
People with red hair might finally get their own emoji. Variant lacking now clear even among all hair and skin colors that people can choose. Red hair is discussed next week at a meeting of the Unicode Consortium, an alliance of major tech companies.
Six suspects Friday in court in Paris brought in connection with the robbery in October of the American TV person Kim Kardashian. Monday, were arrested in this case seventeen people, but most were released.
The Italian bank Unicredit in its fourth quarter, € 8.1 billion needed for new facilities. Those billions have to cover the risk of bad loans on its balance sheet.
Three of the seventeen people who were arrested, are Wednesday came on the loose again because of the loss of reality TV star Kim Kardashian, in October in Paris. Among the freedmen is a driver of a transport for VIPs, which was enabled by the Kardashian family in Paris.
Two family members of former UN chief Ban Ki-moon accused of corrupt practices in New York. It is a cousin of Ban Joo Hyun-bahn, nicknamed Dennis, and his father Ban Ki-sang. In a trial in New York Tuesday publicly that the two of them are accused of wear have to bribe an unnamed official in the Middle East in an attempt Vietnamese property worth the equivalent of more than 750 million euros.
The CEO of Internet company Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, leaves after the acquisition of the company was completed by Verizon. This is evident from pieces that Yahoo has submitted to the US stock exchange watchdog SEC.
The FBI does not mean Esteban Santiago with his shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport had terrorist motives. The research indicates that the 26-year-old Iraq veteran his attack in any case, had planned carefully.
The shooter of the deadly shootings at the airport in Fort Lauderdale had to hand his gun late last year when he underwent a mental examination. The ex-soldier had his weapon back, because he had done nothing wrong, the police said Saturday.
Frank Hoekstra, the Dutch businessman who closely witnessed the shootings at Fort Lauderdale, is safe at home. He is tired, but happy that he survived the attack. He is surprised how someone could just take a gun in his baggage.
The shooter Friday in Fort Lauderdale in Florida shot and killed five people, was already on the radar of the FBI. Iraq veteran Esteban Santiago (26) had in November itself reported to the FBI in Alaska that he commands about Islamic state heard in his head.
