It looks like a normal bathroom tile. But when amateur internet sleuths managed to locate it, they found the missing piece in an international child abuse investigation. This was one of the clues that led to the arrest of a suspect and the identification of nine child abuse victims.  More >

Countries around the world are making it easier to choose the time and manner of your death. But doctors in the Netherlands are starting to worry about the consequences.  More >

While their cities’ once-exemplary housing system is dismantled and the national social-housing stock plummets, Dutch architects remain silent Compared with countries such as Germany and France, the Netherlands has produced few great thinkers, but a huge number of famous painters, designers and other image producers.   More >

The Hook of Holland, a stretch of land outside Rotterdam sliced by canals, functions in many ways like Britain’s backyard. Greenhouses stretch for miles, nurturing tulips, tomatoes and other supermarket specialties.  More >

Hussein Suleiman moved to the Netherlands as a Somali refugee when he was just two years old. Now, Hussein and his business partners are aiming to blend together both their African and Dutch cultures through their clothing brand, Daily Paper.  More >

In 170 days, Europeans will go to the polls, but the right to freely choose their representatives is under threat. With election after election facing hacking and manipulation, no-one should be naive about what is at stake in Europe.  More >

Amsterdam’s first female mayor is rethinking its centuries-old red-light district. The Wallen district sits in the oldest part of the city and at its creation in the 14th century was where free women, mostly Dutch, served sailors and traders without shame.   More >

The village of Doodstil - which translates as 'dead quiet' in Dutch - feels like it could have been named as part of an elaborate joke.  More >

Worried he’d never have a family, Louis became a prolific sperm donor, hoping that his children would one day track him down. And then they did, the Guardian writes.  More >

A man walks into a field. The day is young. He starts to run, then stops and lies down on his back. He gathers handfuls of soil and sprinkles it over his face. Earth falls onto his eyes. Some goes into his mouth.  More >

You wait years for any sort of talent, then two great ones come along at once. That's the feeling among Dutch fans now, and among the scouts of clubs such as Barcelona and Manchester City who have become regulars in Ajax's Johan Cruijff Arena.  More >

Isabella Rozendaal realised there was something missing from Amsterdam’s population archive. She tells of her life – and new book – as the city’s first official pet portraitist, the Guardian writes.  More >

Dutch cities are using wijkwandelingen, or neighbourhoods walks, as a hyperlocal way of improving cities, from fixing signs to adding playground, the Guardian writes.  More >

The world's first 3D-printed bridge, a humanoid walrus and a Dezeen panel discussion on the anthropocene are among our top 10 Instagram highlights from Dutch Design Week 2018.  More >

The Dutch are waving goodbye to years of riches from gas extraction. Why? Because they can no longer stand the social and economic cost of hundreds of small earthquakes and thousands of properties damaged by the tremors gas extraction causes.  More >