Adrienne Cullen was at work in Amsterdam when the phone call came. It was her doctor, calling from his hospital in Utrecht. An Irishwoman in her 50s, she had been living in the Netherlands for several years.  More >

The funeral industry is catering for the growing number of people who want to deal with their mortal remains in an environmentally sound way.  More >

Simple solutions can make a big difference for blind travellers. The BBC shows what the Dutch do to help them.  More >

About 70 people are gathered in the cosy civic centre of Oude Pekela, one of the Netherlands’ poorest villages. When I ask them: 'Do you see Pekela mostly as a poor place, or a happy one?', no hands go up for 'poor'. Almost all are raised for 'happy'.  More >

Insulting a king used to be dangerous business, but in the Netherlands, it could soon be the legal equivalent of trash-talking an ambulance driver. Under Dutch law, insulting the monarch is a crime — though it is rarely prosecuted — punishable by up to five years in prison.  More >

A Dutch journalist has uncovered Royal Dutch Shell documents as old as 1988 that showed the oil company understood the gravity of climate change, the company’s large contribution to it and how hard it would be to stop it.  More >

On the first day of June in 2017, Dutch national television crews were at the ready when a moving truck pulled into the stately cobblestone courtyard of the parliament in The Hague. The truck’s load, a black grand piano, had been the subject of conversation for months.  More >

The fishermen of Urk know that Brexit is going to hurt, but they aren’t going to accept the pain without a fight. The Dutch coastal town is built on fish. Until 1939, and the construction of a dyke to the mainland, it was an island. Its inhabitants were so isolated from the rest of the country that in winter the sick had to be transported across the ice on sledges to reach the nearest hospital.  More >

Thomas Eyck’s private showroom is in a restored 18th-century barn next to a potato field on the outskirts of this Frisian village. Although the setting is calm, the design producer is often on the go, popping out of his seat and grabbing objects to illuminate his points to a visitor.  More >

International students face everyday exclusion and indirect discrimination from their Dutch peers. And the Dutch don’t even know they’re doing it. ‘They think they are being direct, but actually it is just rude.’  More >

An upstart far-right party in the Netherlands threatens to entrench xenophobia in one of Europe’s most progressive countries. As voters in the Netherlands gear up for local elections, the old adage that all politics are local is being turned on its head.  More >

The Bugaboo success story in the Guardian  More >

All eyes have been on Germany and France recently when it comes to reforming the European common currency. But in an interview with Der Spiegel, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, 51, says that the Netherlands should not be ignored.  More >

Assisted suicides in the Netherlands include a 29-year-old who had nothing wrong with her physically.  More >

Dutch MPs are planning to make prime minister Mark Rutte call on EU leaders to delete a website on Russian propaganda, if Dutch ministers do not do it first.  More >

Artemis Westenberg took an unlikely path to the presidency of Explore Mars, the nonprofit advocacy group that insists humans can be on the red planet by 2033.  More >

On a weekday not long ago, visitors milled around the entrance to the Modern Contemporary (Moco) Museum Amsterdam, in the heart of the Dutch capital’s museum quarter.  More >