THE HAGUE, Netherlands: Researchers using a battery of modern imaging techniques have gotten under the skin of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,”...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: All it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone.A Dutch crime-busting...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: An emotion-charged photo of a young man, illuminated by mobile phones, as he recites poetry amid a crowd of protesters demanding...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh was stolen in an overnight smash-and-grab raid on a museum that was closed to prevent the...
AMSTERDAM: The city of Amsterdam’s latest attempt to rein in the nuisance of overtourism by banning guided tours of the red light district has run into...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: When Elizabeth Odio Benito and her fellow judges first arrived in The Hague to work at the International Criminal Tribunal for the...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: When a panel of U.N. judges hands down a verdict next week in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic, it...
BIDNIJA, Malta: A few hundred meters from the home of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in the field where the flaming wreckage of her...
AMSTERDAM: Standing between raised beds of plants on top of a ex-naval hospital, Joris Voeten can look across to the garden, cafe and terrace that decorate...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A Dutch art sleuth who says he’s following two possible leads in the largest art heist in U.S. history is hoping a $10 million...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: While the announcement Thursday of Britain’s Prince Philip’s plan to retire in the fall came as a surprise, for some of the world’s...
Syrian authorities - "abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth" - still possess and use chemical weapons, an American diplomat told the...
THE HAGUE: The economy is up, unemployment is down and some Dutch prisons are so empty the government has been renting out cells. So why do polls indicate...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands: For a small nation that has grown hugely wealthy thanks to centuries of doing business far and wide, the political mood in the...
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands: The painting was labeled as the work of an unknown artist from Europe’s “Continental School,” dated somewhere in...
AMSTERDAM: The ballet rehearsal painted in 1874 by French artist Edgar Degas looks, at first glance, like an innocent portrayal of dancers limbering up for a...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: These days, anybody with a smartphone can snap a selfie in a split second. Back in the Dutch Golden Age, they were called...
ASOTTHALOM, Hungary: Small groups of migrants continued to sneak into Hungary on Wednesday, a day after the country sealed its border with Serbia and began...
THE HAGUE: A Congo militia leader known as The Terminator pleaded innocent Wednesday to 18 charges, including murder, rape and sexual slavery, as his...
BODRUM, Turkey: Six Syrian migrants, including an infant, drowned off the Turkish coast Tuesday as they tried to reach a Greek island, a rescuer said,...
BRUSSELS, European Union ministers failed Thursday to agree on relocating 40,000 of the refugees making risky boat trips from North Africa to Italy and Greece...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: Moderate Dutch Muslims on Thursday called anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders's plan to broadcast cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on...
THE HAGUE: Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said Wednesday he plans to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Dutch television after Parliament...
THE HAGUE: Exactly one century ago Wednesday, German troops opened the taps on a line of chlorine tanks to send a poisonous cloud drifting across no...
THE HAGUE: Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal ruled Monday that Serbian far-right leader Vojislav Seselj has breached conditions of his...