A court in the Netherlands has ordered a man to stop donating his semen after a lawsuit accused him of fathering more than 550 children since 2007. The fertility scandal, which shocked the Netherlands and larger European region, came under spotlight after a foundation and a mother of one of the children filed a lawsuit in The Hague after suspecting incestual interlinks between the hundreds of children allegedly fathered by the man identified as Jonathan M.

Man who fathered over 550 children globally ordered by Dutch court to stop

The Netherlands has joined the US efforts to curb chip exports to China and has made known its plans to restrict export of semiconductor technology to China. The move is being made with national security in mind.

Dutch join US-led effort to restrict exports of chips, semiconductor technology to China

With dazzling displays of colour including tulips in purple, yellow, and crimson hues worthy of the 17th-century tulip mania, the Keukenhof flower garden outside The Hague usually rivals Amsterdam's top museums as one of the Netherlands' largest tourist attractions.

Dutch tulips bloom at Keukenhof with no tourists to admire them

Amsterdam's zoo Artis, one of the oldest animal parks in Europe, said on Thursday it will stop keeping lions because it can't afford them due to the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Amsterdam zoo Artis gives up lions amid coronavirus cash crunch

Indy Mellink, a Dutch card fan, was explaining a game to her cousins last summer when she asked herself: why should a king be worth more than a queen? The 23-year-old psychology student, encouraged by her father, decided it was time to break with the centuries-old tradition of sexual inequality in playing card decks that rank men above women.

Sick of ‘sexist’ playing cards, woman creates genderless pack

On Monday, an elevated tram outran its tracks in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It did not plunge off the pathway, but instead ended up on top of a statue of a whale’s tail.

Saved by a Whale's Tale: Tram runs off track, lands on whale statue's tail in the Netherlands

At barely 14 years of age, some 15,000 children who had been stigmatized as "bad girls" were locked away in convents in the Netherlands, exploited by nuns in the laundries and sewing workshops over the course of a century.

The girls exploited in convents in the Netherlands

5 pics from tram attack site in Utrecht

Business optimism however is at an 'all-time high' globally. The index is at a net 61 per cent, the highest figure recorded in 15 years of research.

India slips to 6th spot on business optimism index, sentiment weakest since 2014

The International Court of Justice said it would hold hearings in the matter in June

Malaysia, Singapore to fight over island at UN top court

Relatives of the victims planted 298 trees in the shape of a green ribbon, one for each victim who died on board the Malaysia Airlines flight

On third MH17 anniversary, families to unveil 'living memorial'

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